[kramer5150]

Start with your favorite plank of wood. I choose bloodwood for its rust-color. Use a hole cutter and cut the ID holes. Cut the through hole first then the ID. Fixture your piece securely, the cutting blades are going to want to jump and grab the hardwood. Just like metalworking, monitor your feeds/speeds. Bloodwood is dense and you can burn out the blades if youre in a hurry.

Use a wood rasp to clean off any tooling marks, and mill the shape to a clean circle. This is the most labor intensive part. I cant imagine doing this without a drill press.

Use a jigsaw or scroll saw and cut the OD, around the perimeter of the ID circle cuts. Use a rasp to clean off tooling marks. Take your time, make sure you have a near-circle, that's smooth.

Start sanding with 60-100-200-400-800 grit paper.

Use tin snips/shears to cut the perorated steel mesh.

Test fit all the parts.

Here you can see the sanded earcup on the right and the second one I just cut on a jigsaw. If anything error on the safe side and cut it too large. You can always whittle it down in size.

Nice napkin rings!!

Make sure you drill the mounting holes in the EXACT location. If youre off by too much the earcup will not fit the headband "C" part, or it will be lop-sided from right to left. Take your time and make sure the sides are symmetric.
I goofed at this stage and had to re-do an earcup.

Half woodie. Test fitting things.

Close-up...

Thats all for now. I ran out of hot melt glue so the mesh and HF-1 logo are loose.... what grado would be complete without hot melt glue?

I'll tung-oil the bloodwood this weekend and finish up on the assembly with hot melt glue. Not sure what cable to use yet?... OEM or star quad?

More pics to come....

Garrett

 

[Bittergourd]

Good job Garrett,
it looks absolutely gorgeous!


.....Do you really think you can get away without mentioning the sound?

 

[Kenny12]

dam that mustive taken some time

 

[RnB180]

you should wax them to give them a polished look.

Normally most folk dont have the proper milling machines to make their own woodies lol. I certainly dont.

I have another challenge for you, try to woodie those black spindles (holding the cup) for the ultimate woodie look!

 

[fureshi]

wow, awesome work garret! do let us know how it sounds.

 

[jesse_w]

Best looking Grados I've seen short of the HP-1000s.

jesse

 

[rimsy]

Quote:

Originally Posted by jesse_w Best looking Grados I've seen short of the HP-1000s. jesse

I second that. Hats off to you, Garrett.

 

[diredesire]

did you ever get my PM?

I'd be interested in taking your stock grado cable from you if you have no use for it

 

[wowie11]

Awesome work Garrett...that is some fine DIY work. If I was to do that, there might be more hot melt glue than wood! It would be reminiscent of my X'mas wrapping...more tape than wrapper! Excellent stuff Garrett, maybe we can arrange a meeting sometime so that I can see that bad boy HF1 in person...I live in Sunnyvale!

 

[overlunge]

Hi Garrett,

Normally I am not a big fan of non-manufacturer made woodies, but I have to take my hats off to you for those beautifully made housing. Keep up the good work!


Overlunge

 

[Kameleon]

That's IT!

Black grills make the HF-1 buttons look so much better than the stock silver ones, I may have to look into doing a swap

 

[warubozu]

Wow, fantastic job. Do post pic of the finished woody once you've applied tung-oil to it.

 

[MrJoshua]

Talk about Woodie's... I'm sporting one now from looking at these photos

JK, but they really are fantastic! I wish I had skillz like you!

 

[squall2072]

Thats brilliant! Seriously... You should get a Head-fi award for that!

 

[ken36]

Outstanding. You are very talented in the wood shop. Great job.