DIY Project - pics inside

Teaser photos only at the moment. Any guesses about what I'm making? I can only work on it on the weekends, and I'm still buying up tools that I need. I'm basically starting from scratch on this. I've had to buy every single tool that I need (Turning 23 tomorrow, btw! )

Rumor has it my GF is buying me a soldering iron for my birthday. Unfortunately it won't be here for a week+. After it gets here I can finish this project.



It SUCKS cutting wood with a handsaw! It's cheap and effective though. I should of just shelled out the $50 for a proper power saw. LOL Oh well.










I spent a long time sanding all of the pieces to make them (mostly) square. It's not going to be perfect, but damn close, especially for having done this with hand tools. It's so hard to make a straight cut with a handsaw.




It's getting pretty obvious what I'm making by the time you get to this picture.

And if you can't tell when you look at this picture then may the audio gods have mercy on you.

One more picture for now:



More pics to come as I get the last of the tools I need (drill bits, soldering iron, wire, clamps).

Starting something else while I wait for the soldering iron to get here.

I'll put up a pic of the finished stand tomorrow night. Letting it air out for one more day before I put my expensive equipment on it.

Still waiting for the soldering iron. Here's a little something else I did in the meantime. A Hifiman HE-500 headset!

Audio Technica PRO 8hex microphone, ART Tube MP preamp, and adapters. The microphone is taped/shrink tubed to a piece of bent metal. In my very short testing it seems to work very well.

Sorry about the picture quality in some of these. I can't seem to hold my phone very steady. Oh well.

^Very nice. Unfortunately I'm going to just have to trust the user not to flip both switches at once.

Really happy with the way the stand turned out.

Still waiting on the soldering iron so I can finish the switch box.

I burned the words "IN" and "OUT" underneath the switches; I got my belated birthday present today.





I've stained the wood and I can solder the jacks tomorrow night (or soon, anyway). Then assemble and I'm done.

So close to being done. I just need to do add some more glue and do the assembly. I tested the RCA jacks and everything is working.

Not super thrilled with the appearance of everything. It definitely looks DIY. Oh well- it'll do what I want it to do.

Yeah, I just wish it was square and that the RCA jacks were lined up. Also, I may or may not have gotten super glue on a couple of the jacks. lol

An early shot of some Gorilla foam glue... well.. foaming. No more glue. It gets everywhere.

After it's done foaming up.

All wiring done! I put solder on each end point to give it some extra strength and tied all of the ground wires together. Going to bed now, but I'll give it one final test in the morning before I seal up the wood. No going back after that.