Quote Originally Posted by les winter View Post
I would be surprised if anyone could build a pair in less than 50 hours not including finish.

At $40/hour........

Speaker box construction comes with a learning curve that a regular custom furniture maker will need to include.
You're kidding, right? Then again, with my current level of decrepitude I'd probably be lucky to do it in 50 Hrs less finishing if not a simple paint job, but I'd like to assume that the rest of the 'gentle readers' here likely to DIY a pair are in much better condition than me.

Where do you live? I haven't seen craftman's rates this low in at least a couple of decades. Then again, 'Hotlanta' has been one of the most expensive places to live in the lower 48 states for quite awhile now.........

I doubt this, but having them done by a cabinet manufacturer that's already set up for this type of simple mass production have historically charged less. Once the CNC machines are programmed it takes no time (relatively speaking) to knock out such simple cabs. For mitered corner construction, they use a tape n' glue lay up with a few brads to hold it all in place while the glue sets that takes about as long to do as it took me to type this. If anything you'll pay a premium for not meeting a minimum number of upper/lower 'counter top' inches that they base their pricing on.

Regardless, yours look fabulous and I've no doubt it performs audibly better overall than the original, so well worth however much time it took IME.

GM