So I was talking with a friend about his speakers and stands for them, when we came with the idea of me designing and building a very cool ones.
After some first drafts in paper, I created 4 potential design candidates in 3D by using 3D max.
Requirements were:
- Wood as main material.
- Have to be easy to move around maybe wheels?
- Have an easy way to change the vertical orientation.
My friend picked, of course, the most difficult one and I started the planing for building it!
After gathering my tools and buying some new ones, like a milling machine, I started working with pine wood.
The biggest challenge I never faced before was bending the main piece in a curve. The wood board was like 2cm thick, so it wasn’t easy.
The first thing was to build a frame to hold the board in the desired curve, but I needed the board to be malleable so it wouldn’t break when I forced it out of the curve.
So I flooded the shower with very hot water and kept the board in there for about 3 hours, refilling it with hot water the entire time.
It worked! The board just curved into the frame with no cracks. I left the board there for a couple of days just to be 100% sure the wood was totally dry before free the pressing into the frame curve.
After some sawing, milling, sanding, gluing and tinting I finally reach the end of the project.
I learned a lot about the limits of the pine tree wood, and also I had a lot fun.
I’m really grateful to my friend to gave me the chance for creating something like this with my bare hands… well and with some tools.
My friend was very happy with the stands and I actually had the chance to see him using them in his house, and that was what gave me the best feeling about this project.
