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New mesa subway amps and cabs!

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Poplar is actually a very cool wood to work with, and with sharp carbide cutters it machines very smoothly with almost no chatter and maintains precise dimensions throughout the cuts.

People assume that CNC is easier and cheaper, but in actuality, the sheet goods used for CNC manufacture are a little different than your average plywood, the thickness and ply uniformity are held to much tighter tolerances otherwise the rabbits and dados will be the wrong depth from the face. Since we also do some custom inlay work, this becomes especially critical to the final surface finish.

Different species and grades of wood for different applications.
 
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Lowendtech said:
Yep. Thanks for the eloquent quotient Al. I’d have used less words. ;)
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I don't understand the eloquence. He's a very professional man, but hangs out with sailors... the kind that don't polish their brown shoes.
Pbassmanca said:
Poplar is a very hard wood, much more so than people think. I use it all the time for trim installs and it is much harder than softwoods like Pine. I installed poplar trim in my home and painted it and it does not dent very easily at all. My kids run things into it, doors hit it, and yet I have no dents. Fret not (sic) my bassy friends ; the Subway cabs will take the punishment and deliver without fail.....:smug:
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I do not understand this obsession with hard wood. ED? There's a blue pill for that :D
 
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BadExample said:
Mmmmm Al is an engineer, makes thing that go bang for the US Navy, NAVAIR (Naval Aviation). FLY NAVY! :D He is as big of a part of our freedom as most Vets.
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Thanks for those very kind words Jon. Being respected by people like you who served in uniform is the ultimate compliment for people in my profession.
 
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Lowendtech said:
Yep. Thanks for the eloquent quotient Al. I’d have used less words. ;)
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If I was smarter, I probably could have written less! I just wanted David to be sure he read my response as not simply saying his perspective deserved revisiting once he had the whole picture. He's a good person and I felt it was only respectful to share the entire story as I knew it from a first hand point of view. His response back was most gracious, reflecting the fine gentleman he is.
 
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Al Kraft said:
Thanks for those very kind words Jon. Being respected by people like you who served in uniform is the ultimate compliment for people in my profession.
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I believe you have certainly earned it. Please don't drone me! Joking aside, even as skeet for the fleet we had some excellent support. For the tweets we had a sweet man come by for a couple weeks of component level AST/ALQ trianing. Me and a couple other guys over the years were essentially DEPOT for WESTPAC on the pods. The hero was more up your ally, AO's had these orange hollow fiberglass huge model rockets we fired at ships, and they ran off very dangerous liquid rocket fuel. They were fueled off-location in the jungle, and this guy insisted on being at the front of the single file line as they approached in. Sure enough, one lit off and he got 3rd degree burns head to toe and an all expenses paid vacation to Walter Reed (one of the institutions I served as a civilian supporting 3 HPLCs until Dr. Tony Theoridos got a headache, went home and croaked from meningitis).
 
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dawind99 said:
And the folks, including some that play with me had the D800 then the + came out in no time and that was devalued, now the WD800 and the + is devalued. Not to be snarky but, short sighted engineering, brilliant marketing strategy, or greed driven? I am sorry but I just don't get it. The D800 was and is great but the addition of the high pass filter (which should be on every amp on the market imho and use to be on many; ie 80Hz switch on my GK800RB that's 20+ years old) was added to the + then the WD800 with a tube in it's pre and a designated 2 ohm switch and parametric. That said, I have always loved Mesa eq and general build quality of their amps but the sequential release of products in such a short time frame with minor additional features does not make me applaud.
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They ARE a business .. and nobody is MAKING anyone buy an amp so soon after it's initial release
Good on em, I think! If they're clever enough to bring out consistently desired products.......

I, myself, will wait until I either need a new amp, and have read a lot of real world users gig reports
 
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