Hey there. This top level post contains all the detail ( I sucked up a couple more posts from the other pages, so this is a summary of the whole process)
Here's tonights festivities. This took me about an hour.
This is 2" brass tube, with masking tape around it for protection for now.
The tool you see next to the body is a pipe cutter, makes perfect cuts in tubing.
The cutout for the capsule I layed out by making pencil marks all the way around the body, and then drew it in by hand.
Cut it out with a Dremel tool ( used a reinforded cutoff wheel). There's effin brass dust everywhere, and I'll hafta take a shower before I ZZZZ.
The benefits of no hair means I hose off easier =)
http://www.shinybox.com/diy/mic/micbody.jpg
UPDATE
Next nights work, fitting the grill:
I chose to fit the mess grill by hand, I've seen people use a dowel to form it, but, well, you know. I cut the inside mesh so that it would completely fill the inside of the body, and then soldered the ends together. If there is any overlap, the grill will pull away from the sides, and ya don't want that
The round top, I just started with a square piece, and started making a dome, trimming off excess as I went. It's soldered into place from the inside of the body.
:wink:
here's what the soldered grill looks like ( you just turn the mesh so that the solder lines up with one of the side posts)
http://www.shinybox.com/diy/mic/micgrillsolder.jpg
And the grill including top
http://www.shinybox.com/diy/mic/micgrill.jpg
Round three:
The body is done (other than some polishing), and ready for the electronics to be fitted.
The experiment was to pull the bottom connector from another microphone, and work it into this body. Here's the result:
http://www.shinybox.com/diy/mic/micbottom.jpg
My pussy(aptly named Mini-Me) thinks that the mic body rocks:
http://www.shinybox.com/diy/mic/micmini.jpg
So total, I've about 3.5 hours into this
Here's tonights festivities. This took me about an hour.
This is 2" brass tube, with masking tape around it for protection for now.
The tool you see next to the body is a pipe cutter, makes perfect cuts in tubing.
The cutout for the capsule I layed out by making pencil marks all the way around the body, and then drew it in by hand.
Cut it out with a Dremel tool ( used a reinforded cutoff wheel). There's effin brass dust everywhere, and I'll hafta take a shower before I ZZZZ.
The benefits of no hair means I hose off easier =)
http://www.shinybox.com/diy/mic/micbody.jpg
UPDATE
Next nights work, fitting the grill:
I chose to fit the mess grill by hand, I've seen people use a dowel to form it, but, well, you know. I cut the inside mesh so that it would completely fill the inside of the body, and then soldered the ends together. If there is any overlap, the grill will pull away from the sides, and ya don't want that
The round top, I just started with a square piece, and started making a dome, trimming off excess as I went. It's soldered into place from the inside of the body.
:wink:
here's what the soldered grill looks like ( you just turn the mesh so that the solder lines up with one of the side posts)
http://www.shinybox.com/diy/mic/micgrillsolder.jpg
And the grill including top
http://www.shinybox.com/diy/mic/micgrill.jpg
Round three:
The body is done (other than some polishing), and ready for the electronics to be fitted.
The experiment was to pull the bottom connector from another microphone, and work it into this body. Here's the result:
http://www.shinybox.com/diy/mic/micbottom.jpg
My pussy(aptly named Mini-Me) thinks that the mic body rocks:
http://www.shinybox.com/diy/mic/micmini.jpg
So total, I've about 3.5 hours into this