I took some time off from work the week of Thanksgiving to spend that time enjoying my family and building this cool project.

I designed and built this self-powered, Bluetooth speaker from 5/4 spalted cherry. It is powered by a Dayton Audio KAB-250 amp board (2 x 50 watts) with integrated Bluetooth chip delivered to a pair of Dayton Audio RS100-4 full range drivers. It was really fun and relatively simple to build. The most challenging part was of this project was creating the large volume control, and flush mounting the drivers. I also learned how to cut dovetailed corner keys out of mahogany to strengthen the miter joints at the corners.

I hope you enjoy the photo gallery. You can also hear how it sounds in this video demo on my facebook page (you may need to adjust the volume of the video.)

Top view

This is how it looks before finishing.

This is the top view before finishing. You can see the volume control post and two LEDs.

Gluing in the mahogany corner keys

Here I’m testing the electronics to ensure I know how it should be wired before everything is installed.

Installing the electronics

Front View

Rear view

Mahogany dovetailed corner keys

Mahogany dovetailed corner keys and volume control

The nearly 3-inch volume control is made from the same cherry board