One slip up, and all is lost. Do you think I can do it? / myLot

Walnut Creek, California

October 31, 2015 12:01pm CST

Last night, after two really busy days at work, I wanted to spend some time alone, listening to music and working on the vintage loudspeakers I'm restoring. I cut out some fabric, and started hot gluing the fabric to one of the frames I'd repaired (shown in my previous post). It's delicate work,as one slip with the glue gun can ruin a screen. I'm now half-done with that screen! I'll get back to it when I have some down time, probably later today. My goal is to have a pair of 100% functional Acoustic Research AR-2ax loudspeakers from 1972 that have that "Danish modern" look I find so attractive. I'll attach a picture I took last night when I was almost done with my work for the evening. By the way, do you have a comparable hobby--something you do that's slow and steady, but yields something cool when you're done? And where one wrong move can ruing everything? Even though refinishing speakers is very "male," I can't help but think of knitting (which I think of as "female") what I try to think of something comparable.

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pgn

@pgntwo (22405)

• Derry, Northern Ireland

1 Nov 15

Sounds like my attempts to set up and maintain a salt-water aquarium years ago - a biome truly on a knife-edge!

The Horse

@TheHorse (238330)

• Walnut Creek, California

1 Nov 15

I got the first screen done without incident and started the second. Were you able to get the salt-water aquarium up and running successfully?

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@pgntwo (22405)

• Derry, Northern Ireland

1 Nov 15

@TheHorse After two very close-calls, I decided it was safer, and cheaper, to stick to tropical freshwater aquaria. I must've had half a dozen on the go at one point, and I became quite adept at making folded-metal lighting shrouds (using galvanized sheet metal and special-spectrum strip lights) to illuminate the tank and show off the tank contents.