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Cut your inside holes with a jigsaw.
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Now its time to shave the angle, use the outer pencil line as your gauge.
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When you get to your desired angle the MDF will be getting a bit thin at the end so take your time.
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The plane leaves a rough finnish , you can fix that with a orbital sander.
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Trace your outside pencil line again
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And get the jigsaw going on the outside edge, the tip is to cut it slowly around the thinner edges.
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Good work.

nice spacers there sexy.

Nice work Zion.
I'll post a pic of mine up during the week, which i knocked together 2 days before nationals.

Go the bog/filler!

Yes everyone who did a angled spacer project with pics ,please post them as you may have another way or idea to get the desired effect.........zion Hooray i got feedback

Not exactly what you are after, but anyway:

http://www.caraudioaustralia.com/forums/in...showtopic=63327

I have been working on some of my own, I just started yesterday. Not sure if there are going to be any angles involved, but this is as relevant as I can get.

http://corksil.com/gallery2/v/Corksil/civi...io/speakerpods/

The gallery isn't fully set up yet, so it will be getting better when I get done, add the pics, and finish the description.

i dont think this is a good method.

I prefer to make two rings, and angle them using say...dowel. Then f/g the rings together, not much more hassle, and honestly, whats the point of a *space* if one edge is well...paper thing?

I guess you could compromise, make a regular ring, then sit the angled spacer on top of it?

So i can keep the widest staging, and the spacer is screwed onto another mdf board.In this instance its acceptable to have it that thin.........zion
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i aggree with dion, because the speaker will be mounted not only to the small thin part but actually straight through to the other piece of mdf, and will clamp tightly onto the spacer. I wouldn't do this if you were putting this straight to a door card or frame :S

The only thing with fibre glass that ever makes me think is, how rigid is it actually? or do you have to put like 10 layers of matt down to get something worth using? i have my speakers screwed straight onto a piece of mdf on the door card, and then through to another piece of mdf on the frame, so its solid as a rock (doors weigh a bit though :S)

I havn't angled them at all and was wondering if an agle pod onto this made out of fibre glass will actually be an advantage or does the ribre glass pods create resonance problems, do they flex or cause any other issues?

I just think back to good old speaker design, solid 18mm box's...gets me thinking that perhaps it should all be as solid as this.

Is there any timber place that would be able to shave an angle onto my spacers, because I don't have that tool whatever it is. Don't think Bunnings or Mitre 10 have any such facilities.

It's an electric planer. You could buy a hand one, about $20, but this would take ages. Cheap electric planers go for about $30-40. That's all you really need.

I'd really just rather someone else do it. A place that has these sort of tools would do a better job than me on a first go, I wouldn't have to clean up the mess, and wouldn't need to find another storage space in the garage for yet another tool (one which I probably would never have the need for again). So can anyone recommend someone? Would just a timber wholesaler or maybe cabinetmakers be able to do this?

Max Power
You don't have to make angled spacers like this at all.
There are a number of other tutorials and exampes of building angled pods using the simpler method of making a speaker ring and then fibreglassing this to a surface.

This is also a little less wastefull of materials.

Yea yea I know I could do it with fibreglass but just having one solid piece of mdf is what I want. It'll be bolted to the door, not onto another peice of MDF that runs along the bottom of the door trim. I'm not making pods like that. And I don't think it'll be simpler either if I can get someone else to do it

take some pics and sketches with you to the cabinet maker.They will have thicker sizes of mDF , or get him to make 2pairs and screw them together.The way i did it in that tute it takes less than a hour to do one set, plus u dont have to use 18mm and you dont have to shave it that thin at the end.I wanna see someone's firbreglassing effort in 1hr .These rings are good for experimetation of angles and so forth,you cant get a simpler more efficient structure within a budget or a time frame .........zion

Yea I have 2 18mm mdf pieces glued together and I want it done so that one side is 36mm and the other about 6~8mm... which will give a nice angle.

Ok, I went to some places (cabinet maker, joinery place) and they "can" do it but they say that MDF will stuff the blades pretty quick compared to wood. And the amount of angle that I want means taking a lot off so it would take a bit of time. So I reckon I might just fibreglass it. Messier and will look worse but hopefully it will come out ok.

Good method anyways for those that have a planer. Too bad I don't.

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this tute is the angled spacer tute , its not comparable to the custom pod tute which is linky http://www.caraudioaustralia.com/forums/in...showtopic=43524

liking it alot zion....

always the pioneer of all things wonderfully budget freindly....

MEGA SPACERS post #122
http://www.caraudioaustralia.com/forums/in...showtopic=68028

And the idea of adding each small increasment of angle is to maximise your speaker angle to its utmost niceness.You can do this so easy with these angled spacers and be confident that u tried many angles and found the nicest one for your install in the fastest posible time frame .Then by all means add your glitter pods after you have done your testing.

A quick layer of filler and glass to smooth over those would look very nice...