Brian Gray
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Joined: 2004-01-21
Location: Sandusky, OH
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If the box is internally supported, then I would either try long reach clamps, or build a custom manual press, as mentioned above.
This way, your joints can be a tiny bit off. You can then fill some minor gaps with epoxy, bondo, whatever, and then veneer over them.
Now obviously, these gaps need to be few and minor...otherwise you will compromise the the integrity of the box (as well as sonic performance). So there has to be a certain allowable slop on your gaps during construction.
By the way, congratulations on not using contact cement. My (granted limited) experience with speaker builders is that they put lots of work into design, electronics, components, etc...and then when it's time to veneer the box, they just use a press-on veneer, or contact cement.
If you are interested, here's a neat little speaker project of mine...
http://www.briangray.net/projectdetail.cfm?ProjectID=26
Obviously, this was much easier to construct the carcass and glue than your project!
When you are finished with your speaker, please post completed pics. I would really love to see it.
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