I have already translated one article about a modern multimedia speaker in a restored vintage case. The author Instructables, nickname knife141, was less fortunate. He could not find an empty vintage case, but the outEntential, as the video blogger Kokovin says, the assembled column turned out to be too expensive, its price at the auction increased, and it was a pity to violate its outEnteness. Well, let’s recall the phrase from the newspaper Bolshoi Gorod, which is no longer published on paper (however, the master is hardly familiar with it): "Antiques. We will produce it in the presence of the customer." Of course, you cannot cheat buyers, it will be a fraud with all the consequences, but you can do this for yourself. Let the guests think that the column on your table is vintage. The wizard immediately warns that there will be no audiophile components in it, and the sound will be the most ordinary. Basis homemade the master takes the finished cylindrical box with a lid from chipboard:
And the classic multimedia speakers - without Bluetooth, only with an AUX input, with a conventional amplifier (not class D) and a conventional power supply (not pulse):
For work, the master will need: a screwdriver:
Tabletop jigsaw (like the Soviet EL-2 or the modern Corvette):
Various tools:
The master remodels the case: reduces, places the sawn-off part inward to increase rigidity, and since to fit it, she had to be reduced, the part that remains after that also finds where to stick:
The master makes a stencil for the details of the front panel, these will be two disks, with and without a jumper. It transfers the contour to plywood, cuts it out. A round hole is cut out in the housing cover. Tries on both rings, but so far only glues what is without a jumper, and from the inside. And so many clamps, it turns out, it is useful to have not only the surgeon, but also the carpenter.
The support is made of plywood waste, and the leg is made of a piece remaining from a rectangular board 50x100 mm. In order to mark and make a recess in the leg of such a shape so that it precisely fits into the cylindrical body, it is enough to circle the corresponding part of the cylinder. Similarly, you can make recesses on the sides.
From the piece remaining after receiving the recess, bar and another piece of plywood, the master makes a shelf. But not a bass reflex.
Glues the body, the leg and the stand together, makes a recess for the leg in the lid:
Paints the body, leg, stand and cover, shows an unpainted ring with a jumper for contrast:
Everything is artificially aged with bronze paint:
But for what, it turns out, this regiment. No disassembly of the columns, the master puts them inside the whole. Of course, they must be with an external power supply. If you take with the inside, it can overheat in a confined space.
It remains to add the fabric and glue the jumper ring as the front panel:
And you can put it on a vintage table (a shelf for a keyboard, obviously later added) and surround it with other vintage objects, as well as a modern monitor:
With real vintage objects, the pseudo-screw column combines perfectly, then the master writes that if he had a laser cutter, he would do the same much faster. Indeed, the design participates in a competition where the main prize is exactly that ...