Hi everyone I am Dennis Foley from acoustic fields.
Today we are going to discuss our DIY diffuser kit where all the pieces are precut for you,
and in this case, prefinished.
This is our basswood DIY diffuser kit based on the prime number 11.
And you can see to the left we have the two side pieces, the top and the bottom and then
the little blocks which provide the depth for each particular well in this series.
The back piece where the vertical diffuser slots fit into.
And then next to the back piece we have the 4 horizontal pieces that go in the well.
And then of course the well dividers themselves to the right.
So today we are gonna walk through a step by step assembly of these pieces and we will
go from there.
Alright, as you can see here on the table, we have the back piece, and we are going to
now insert the vertical well dividers, we need to use a special kind of glue for this
because these units are sealed with a clear coat, so we need to use a special glue that
will adhere to that, and we will offer you a link on the site where you can go and find
that kind of glue.
So Carl's gonna go ahead and actually walk us through the gluing and everything, and
take it away Carl.
He's gonna put a little bit in the track.
Now he's gonna insert each individual well divider into the slot.
Everything is precut so you do not have to worry about it.
And you can see everything fits really nicely in there.
And in this particular diffusion series we have 5 well dividers.
So there is step 1 of the process.
We take the back piece, add glue to each dato, and insert the vertical well dividers.
Our next step now is to put the top and bottom pieces on and as you can see those are dato-ed
out also.
Everything is made nice and easy for you.
All we have to do is put the glue in the dato.
Carl makes it look easy, I am sure he's done this before.
So you might need a little more experience with it, but it is not hard you can see he's
just adding the glue.
The glue has a controlled nozzle and dispenser so it is easy to apply, a little on the edge
to hold it.
And then the top and with the datos you simply line everything up.
Then we have a top and bottom, very good.
So we put the back piece, added the vertical well dividers in, glued those, and now we
put our top and bottom on.
Now we are ready to put the side pieces on.
Carl's gonna go ahead and glue the datos for the edges and the long edge.
Short edge and the long edge.
He's going to secure the pieces in place, and then we are gonna put some tape on them
to hold them.
You could use clamps, a lot of people do not have clamps.
We are trying to make this as easy as possible for you.
We are going to use masking tape in this situation to give you an idea of the easy way to do
it.
So that's why you need tape.
So we will go ahead and put her back up there and then Carl will tape it.
This way you do not need clamps.
Trying to make this as easy as possible for you with the least amount of materials least
amount of labor, and you could glue this thing together in one step.
And then of course you wanna let it dry for a period of time, Carl will repeat the procedure
for the left side.
Everything's dadoed out.
Tolerances are good, so it is just glue and fit.
Put a little tape to support and hold until it dries and you're good to go.
This is basswood with a medium dark stain on it, and a couple coats of clear.
That's what all the units will have, so that fits real sweet.
Little bit of tape to hold it on that edge.
And a little bit of tape to hold it on the other edge.
There you go.
Now we need to take the backside because remember we put the glue on the dados, so Carl's gonna
put a little glue or tape on the back to hold it.
So we take the corners and we will take every foot or 2 on the diffuser to hold it.
And then he's gonna spin it around and we are gonna do the other side, you can see the
tape on the edge there.
Bring it to the edge of the table and repeat the procedure for this side.
As you can see we have our box, it is coming together, it is got the side and the edges
and the back on, and we have our vertical dividers.
Dividing each well.
Then of course the next step would be to install the horizontal pieces in there.
Which we will get to.
As you can see it is a pretty easy simple process, every pieces is cut to fit.
We test the tolerances before we send it to you to make sure every piece fits.
Okay, we are ready for the final step which is installing the horizontal pieces.
You need to follow the diagram because you can see each of our blocks is a little different
size.
You want to correspond the blocks to the proper well dimensions, and that's all outlined in
the kits, so you'll be able to do that.
So we will start with the first well, which is the shortest dimension series.
See.
He's just gonna put the block in there, it is all the same height, you do not have to
calculate height you just have to glue blocks and then we will lay the horizontal piece
on top of them obviously the blocks are not finished because they do not show.
No sense wasting time and labor to figure out anything else.
And spend money doing that.
Then the horizontal piece lays in there.
On top of the box.
There's your first well of the diffuser.
Our next well in this series is opened.
So we do not have to worry about what to do with that one, we just leave it open.
The next one is shorter, so you can see the block.
Carl inserts that in there, there's 3 blocks to each well, we divide it into thirds.
That will support the horizontal pieces quite nicely, make it easier for you to assemble.
You can see everything is cut to fit.
He's putting glue on both ends of the block, that way the block is glued to the unit and
the horizontal pieces are glued then to the block.
Then he's gonna insert the horizontal pieces, very nice.
Okay.
Repeat the procedure for the next well.
The two middle wells on most quadratic diffusers are always the same.
So we just repeat the procedure here.
Everything is precut, everything is premeasured, so all you have to do is assemble and all
you need is a little bit of glue and a little bit of masking tape, duct tape would work
as well.
Then he inserts the horizontal piece of the block.
Assures you are at the correct depth for the frequencies we need to diffuse in this unit.
This is based on prime number 11.
This is based on prime 7.
So okay.
Blocks again on the edge.
Nice if everything went this easy together.
But this is what you do when you get planning.
This is what you get when you buy a kit, everything pre measured, pre-built, pre finished for
you.
Pick your stain and we can complement any décor for you and there you go.
So the best thing to do now is to let it dry for how long would you say, Carl?
2 hours and 24 hours for it to cure.
So two hours before you start moving it around, and then 24 hours really for complete cure.
So there you have it.
There you have the kit for the prime number 7 diffuser.
And everything is there for you, and as you can see it is pretty easy process.
Thank you.