When a USian speaks of "particle board", is that the same as what we in the UK would call "chip board" (coarse stuff, commonly used for flooring) or "fibre board" (furniture, shelving and similar)?
Fibre board comes in light, medium and high density: LDF, MDF and HDF, though you seem to have search for LDF/HDF. HDF sounds like (er, pun not intended) the really dense stuff being advocated, as MDF is pretty solid even unvarnished.
We've got those, too. Some home speaker manufacturers use the better version, and apply veneer. I'm not sure why we chose plywood. Probably because it just looked nicer, in case a customer decided to lay in the trunk and look up at the brackets we made. You know...customers do that all the time, don't they?
Real cabinet grade Baltic, Russian, and Finnish Birch (the stuff with like 13 plies in a 3/4" sheet) comes in 5x5 & 5x10 sheets.
If it's 4x8, it's was probably birch or maple veneer with 5 to 7 poplar cores.
In the 80's I built probably 100's of pro sound cabinets to specific purchaser's specs.
No, Andrew hit it: MDF.
LOL! No, I was thinking MDF. It's pretty dense stuff, almost like a plastic. I was going to make my mounts with MDF but it was too expensive to buy a whole sheet for 4 pieces, and they didn't have any cut-down...
I'll GIVE you some scraps if you still need them.
I go through mountains of the stuff as a veneer base and for jigs.
That's why fancy 1/2" or 3/4" ply is good. You *can* get smaller pieces.
I use the terms interchangeably, even though I know it's wrong. :-)
:-) Considering how often some manage to stand on their heads in discussions here, most likely.
I agree. Alpine was a great brand at one time. Didn't they get purchased by RoadMaster or someone like them?
That rings a bell, but I think you're thinking Blaupunkt. I remember BP got bought by someone and their stuff was being made overseas (er, Asia, that is!) for a while. The engineering was still German but the manufacture was Korean or something.
Shoot, they're ALL made in China now! The 'better' stuff is made in...Malaysia! And Made In Japan? Golden! Only the high-end stuff!
I don't know if I want to go through THAT again! ;)
All I have is a cheap jigsaw. Could be cool in the spring.
Send me a cardboard pattern, and I'll whip them out for you.
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