Made a nice oak armboard ready for my TD124 turning up
Finished it with a few layers of Danish Oil
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In a different direction, a scragged together parts bin inverse RIAA dooberry from Pete Millett’s circuit (one of those things that I should have probably hacked together before to see how the phono stage is misbehaving).
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Looking good!
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Looks like more than one pair in the production line!
I had some spare offcuts to make another pair, hoping to put some faital pro drivers in to compare to the altec stuff
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More parts bin stuff¹, this time the Phonoclone boards that were on pfm recently to try as a backup phono stage.
¹ including having to slum it with a red, rather than blue, LED.
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So with thanks to @hoopsontoast for lending me his supravox 285gmf to have a play around with and @diceman for collecting a pair of faital pro 12pr320 that I bought off eBay and waiting too long to go get from him I now have some drivers to compare against the Altec 414 that should be a lot easier to get hold of if needed. The real hero today though was the aircon in the fiesta. Couldn’t have done it without it
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No problem, look forward to seeing how you get on! 
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Are they staying natural or getting a colour?
Staying natural. The bass cabinet will probably have something like teak colour veneers, and a retro grille cloth covering the front top two thirds that is a cream coloured to tonally match the multicells.
Something like but not exactly this -
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Who is doing the build, and what drivers will you be using?
Have you sorted the cloth out?
I’m after some retro type cloth in off white or grey.
@keith1962 - Markus Klug is making the multicells, Chris @Rab1991 is bringing his fabulous craft to the cabinets and more besides.
This is going to a largely Altec adaptation with 15" 416s on the bass , and 288C compression drivers. HF will be courtesy of YL Acoustics 1800G horn tweeters.
@stu - not yet but I bet Chris knows where you can find some.
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Marcus Klug does a great job - I have heard Marks several times they both sound and look lovely. I had guessed a long time ago the plan you said you didn’t have.
I got some cloth off eBay as I wanted the Lintons to have that old Klipsch or AR grill look
I only used one lot of (brown) cloth for them so have one going spare if you want me to bring it to Lopwell?
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/366234341583
Looks like this:
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Wish you’d have told me then!
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Unfortunately I need about 2.5m length x 850mm