Hi Gents
I had a choice to make. Either fork out R700- R3000 for speaker stands for some Akai speakers that I have or build my own. I did not want to fork out any money on speaker stands so I decided to look around the house at what I had lying around and build my own.
I am really not good with my hands. I always say that I get paid to think and not work with my hands and if I can do this any one can..
http://s25.postimg.org/4lc1oyx9r/speaker_stands_1.jpg
Everybody that sees them think they are store bought steel stands. Infact they are plastic and wood. I had all the stuff lying around the house.
I used some scrap wood lying around and cut them into 4 pieces for the top and bottoms. I used some other scraps to cut 4 mounts to mount onto some 2 x pvc pipes I cut to desired lenghts. I glued the mounts to the pvc pipes with a hot glue gun.
http://s25.postimg.org/61s5kupkf/speaker_stands_2.jpg
http://s25.postimg.org/u6sv2k9v3/speaker_stands_3.jpg
I did the bottom mounts first, the glue set quickly and then I filled the pipes with sand to ad some weight and make the stands more stable.
http://s25.postimg.org/dkbathgxb/speaker_stands_4.jpg
Then I glued the tops and after the glue dried I just sprayed the stands with primer and then I used a can of high heat black spraypaint I had standing around from a previous pc chassis I refurbed.
http://s25.postimg.org/yihgrkgrz/speaker_stands_5.jpg
Everybody that sees them think they are steel because the hot glue when set looks like welding if you spray paint it.
http://s25.postimg.org/poqkagttb/speaker_stands_6.jpg
http://s25.postimg.org/y89y8825r/speakers_stands_7.jpg
I had a choice to make. Either fork out R700- R3000 for speaker stands for some Akai speakers that I have or build my own. I did not want to fork out any money on speaker stands so I decided to look around the house at what I had lying around and build my own.
I am really not good with my hands. I always say that I get paid to think and not work with my hands and if I can do this any one can..
http://s25.postimg.org/4lc1oyx9r/speaker_stands_1.jpg
Everybody that sees them think they are store bought steel stands. Infact they are plastic and wood. I had all the stuff lying around the house.
I used some scrap wood lying around and cut them into 4 pieces for the top and bottoms. I used some other scraps to cut 4 mounts to mount onto some 2 x pvc pipes I cut to desired lenghts. I glued the mounts to the pvc pipes with a hot glue gun.
http://s25.postimg.org/61s5kupkf/speaker_stands_2.jpg
http://s25.postimg.org/u6sv2k9v3/speaker_stands_3.jpg
I did the bottom mounts first, the glue set quickly and then I filled the pipes with sand to ad some weight and make the stands more stable.
http://s25.postimg.org/dkbathgxb/speaker_stands_4.jpg
Then I glued the tops and after the glue dried I just sprayed the stands with primer and then I used a can of high heat black spraypaint I had standing around from a previous pc chassis I refurbed.
http://s25.postimg.org/yihgrkgrz/speaker_stands_5.jpg
Everybody that sees them think they are steel because the hot glue when set looks like welding if you spray paint it.
http://s25.postimg.org/poqkagttb/speaker_stands_6.jpg
http://s25.postimg.org/y89y8825r/speakers_stands_7.jpg
