Not sure if this sort of stuff is of intrest to anyone but here goes.
I have a small wood workshop to keep my mind busy etc and here is one of my projects i finished.
I found a pair of original Goodmans Maxim for sale but the cases were quite damaged, not just scratches but with veneer missing in places. All though I appreciate things being original, I would much rather things to be used and enjoyed and being refurbished if needed then just sat in case of being damaged.
These needed a complete strip to bare plywood then fresh veneer laid, I struggled to decide to keep them original and veneer them in teak, but I found some really nice rosewood and couldn't resist.
So to start the first thing was to disassemble the speakers then get to stripping the cabinets. This was done with a trim router and straight bit with a very shallow depth of cut to remove the majority of the old veneer. Then finish by sanding through the remainder. You can sand completly through but can take a lot longer and is harder to keep the panels flat.
Then onto the veneer, this is some really special stuff and will be sad when it's gone, the key to a good bookmatch is "shooting" the veneer so the edge is perfect, I clamp the veneer between to pieces of mdf then use a flush trim bit in my trim router.
After laying the veneer it's time to trim it all up then onto sanding, I then realised the front edges and rear of the speaker really let the new finish down so had some paint mixed up before applying it to the backs and front edges, although a lot lighter than the original, I think the colour really works.
These were then finished with around 5 coats of danish oil, before carefully putting them back together.
I have a small wood workshop to keep my mind busy etc and here is one of my projects i finished.
I found a pair of original Goodmans Maxim for sale but the cases were quite damaged, not just scratches but with veneer missing in places. All though I appreciate things being original, I would much rather things to be used and enjoyed and being refurbished if needed then just sat in case of being damaged.
These needed a complete strip to bare plywood then fresh veneer laid, I struggled to decide to keep them original and veneer them in teak, but I found some really nice rosewood and couldn't resist.
So to start the first thing was to disassemble the speakers then get to stripping the cabinets. This was done with a trim router and straight bit with a very shallow depth of cut to remove the majority of the old veneer. Then finish by sanding through the remainder. You can sand completly through but can take a lot longer and is harder to keep the panels flat.
Then onto the veneer, this is some really special stuff and will be sad when it's gone, the key to a good bookmatch is "shooting" the veneer so the edge is perfect, I clamp the veneer between to pieces of mdf then use a flush trim bit in my trim router.
After laying the veneer it's time to trim it all up then onto sanding, I then realised the front edges and rear of the speaker really let the new finish down so had some paint mixed up before applying it to the backs and front edges, although a lot lighter than the original, I think the colour really works.
These were then finished with around 5 coats of danish oil, before carefully putting them back together.
