Finally finished my Hagerman Bugle phono pre, I had been using it in a battery powered setup for a while, which was fine, I really like the sound of this pre, but I hated changing batteries twice a month. So I ordered the power supply board and built a box for it. I am not a wood worker, I work with metal, I understand metal, it makes sense to me, wood on the other hand, well there's plenty of expletives I could use, but they'd all be censored, so I'll leave it at, this was difficult for me.
Internals:
The divider is an steel bar that I drilled and tapped then screwed to the case,
Picture of the rear.
Front.
-Off
On.
The wood knob is actually a push button for the power. I spent a lot of time trying to figure out a power switch to use, eventually I settled on the idea of taking a push button switch which I then took a piece of round stock oak, cut, drilled a hole a little smaller than the plunger of the switch about 90% of the way through the wood, then another whole that was large enough to slide over the threaded portion of the push button's shaft. I'm really really happy with how the button turned out, and might be my proudest part of this whole project.
For the LED, I stole this idea from another members project in this thread, I don't remember who, but if you recognize it, pat yourself on the back. I drilled a hole through the wood that was about half the diameter of the LED, then on the inside of the box, I drilled a hole to fit the LED, and epoxied the it to the wood. It glows very nicely, and when it's off it doesn't look like an LED, I really wanted this project to look nice, and not have parts and pieces sticking out on the front panel.
I stained the button with a cherry stain, and used an onyx stain on the case, in the end I can't tell the difference between the two, HA! The button got two coats of lacquer clear, and the case got five.
The top is a piece of MDF which I sealed with a mixture of water and wood glue spread on thin to harden the board and to allow for sanding, it was then sprayed with four or five coats of black lacquer, followed by the same number coats of clear lacquer.
On the bottom I have gold speaker spikes for feet, I had a credit with parts express, so I figured why not?
That's enough rambling from me for now.
