Rodne Gold
06-30-2013, 10:20 AM
I decided to do something different for my hifi room to fit in with the music/audio theme etc.
This mural is 1.5m wide , on a baseboard of 16mm MDF covered with an oak grain formica(counter top material) as a background
The various elements were laser cut and assembled using using marine silicon as an adhesive (stops and damps any buzzes and rattles which are a problem with very low bass) I had done a small 1/2 size one for a trial to see what materials fit best with what.
I initially had intentions of actually doing the mural with quite big differences in heaights of the various elements off the baseboard , so it would act as a sort of audio diffuser and refractor of midrange and treble but it proved really difficult to conceptualise and implement so I kinda scotched that idea
The materials used are what I stock and import : various colours of perspex (acrylic sheet), mirror acrylic , engraving laminates and one or 2 formicas.
Assembly was a nightmare as its kinda like a jigsaw puzzle..but what I did was send the corel drawing of the whole thing to my Roland printer/cutter and both printed and cut the vector outlines , we overlaid the vinyl on the backboard and weeded each section and applied the material and then went on to the next piece and weeded and applied and so on , then stripped the vinyl in between the pieces.
This mural is 1.5m wide , on a baseboard of 16mm MDF covered with an oak grain formica(counter top material) as a background
The various elements were laser cut and assembled using using marine silicon as an adhesive (stops and damps any buzzes and rattles which are a problem with very low bass) I had done a small 1/2 size one for a trial to see what materials fit best with what.
I initially had intentions of actually doing the mural with quite big differences in heaights of the various elements off the baseboard , so it would act as a sort of audio diffuser and refractor of midrange and treble but it proved really difficult to conceptualise and implement so I kinda scotched that idea
The materials used are what I stock and import : various colours of perspex (acrylic sheet), mirror acrylic , engraving laminates and one or 2 formicas.
Assembly was a nightmare as its kinda like a jigsaw puzzle..but what I did was send the corel drawing of the whole thing to my Roland printer/cutter and both printed and cut the vector outlines , we overlaid the vinyl on the backboard and weeded each section and applied the material and then went on to the next piece and weeded and applied and so on , then stripped the vinyl in between the pieces.