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September # 2

The Story

Stephen Wilburn really wanted macassar ebony HT3's. But not just any macassar ebony.

He wanted interesting grain patterns, but not too wild. So we liiked at quite a few batches. Some were very striking, but a bit too much for Stephen's taste. We then came across this batch.

Once we had nailed down the veneer, it was time to turn out attention to the front baffles.

I had just purchased a large board of some very nice claro walnut. It seemed perfect for the task.

Macassar ebony is one of the richest looking woods around. I think it is very classy looking, but it tends to be expensive and the logs are not very wide. In this case, four sequenced pieces of veneer needed to be spliced for each of the side panels. But the resulting mirror-image matches made for some very interesting patterns.

I think the combination of ebony and claro walnut makes for some very classy looking HT3's. If you like dard woods, this combaintion is very hard to beat!

Happy listening Stephen!

What's next?

High gloss cherry with outboard crossover enclosures. Stay tuned...

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