Cool bandsaw. I have a couple of Walker Turners and a 36" Northfield. The Walker Turners are sweet little saws, but are pretty mundane looking. I've used only Forrest blades for 15 years. Ask for Tony, extension 313, mention me, and tell him that you love Led Zeppelin - you'll probably get free blades! I also feel that Forrest does by far the best sharpening job, although they are more expensive.

I know about the FAA's dislike of epoxy, and it's always puzzled me. I started out as a custom boat builder and there are a lot of old cold molded boats still out there. These days we build custom cabinetry and carbon fiber race car parts, and use epoxy every day. I would have considered epoxy ideal for our folded cabinet project, but it leaves a thick glue line where it saturates the wood - giving the illusion of an open joint.

My experience with balanced laminates is that you can never tell what is going to happen, and the cost of failure far outweighs the cost of caution for us. I've seen MDF veneered on one side cup like a cereal bowl, and other MDF with an unbalanced laminate stay dead flat for years. Encapsulation certainly helps, but wood expands and contracts with temperature as well as humidity, and about 9 times as much across the grain as with the length. How could 1/40th of an inch thick veneer move a 3/4" thick piece of MDF? Got me, but it does.

My point is that if I were putting 40, or 400! hours into a pair of speakers for myself, I'd throw an extra hour or two into veneering, and ideally finishing, the the inside of the box, particularly if the design had large panels without internal support.

Ed