just some rough pics of my new design. All fiberglass, one piece. No more attaching to the stock kickpanels.




GP will near end of 1st week of Jan.

mike

 

Looks good Mike! But........Brown?

 

My Memphis 6.5's are comming in the second week of January. Looks like I might have to break the penny bank. Looks great, and I love the one piece design, but agree with jobryan......BROWN?

-Matt

 

that was just some scrap i had to make sure I could get the carpet to stretch around the curves.

All customer orders have your choice of colors

 

Ahh here's a better pic that Mike had hiding on his site!

Now that looks sweet!

 

those are the old design. They mount to the plastic kickpanel. The new ones totally replace it. Same basic shape though.

mike

 

replaces stock panels, greaat. i just put the other ones in saturday, and you come out witha new design .. j/k hehe.

thats pretty slick .. every time i go in this forum you have a better and better product .. lol
~Tim

 

Actually, I thought about offering special "upgrade" prices for previous customers. Then you could just sell your old designs for a couple bucks too.

Anyone interested ?

 

yeah, these are the 4th revisions of my kickpanels.

rev 1 - use stock plastic kickpanel and make set from scratch for each customer. Took very long time, fiberglass never made a 100% bond to the plastic of the kick, and the curve near the door was very difficult to wrap in tweed, plus each set included hand made plastic grills.

rev 2 - first design to attatch to stock kickpanel. Mold based. 2 piece design took a while to make, but not as long as rev 1. Still included plastic grills. Man were those grills a pain to make. Easier to tweed, but still kinda tough.

rev 3 - similar to rev 2, but without the recess for a grill, customer must use own grill. Still a 2 piece design that took awhile to build. Still attached to stock kick. Covered in carpet now, much easier to cover then tweed.

rev 4 - a cross between rev 3 and rev 1 . Replaces entire kickpanel. Carpet allows for easier covering of the curve near the door sill. One piece deisgn can now go from raw materials to bare unfinished kickpanel in 3 hours. Still use customers grills.


When you bang out so many of a paticular design of kickpanel, you realize it's flaws and get ideas for newer, better ones. I think rev 3 was the longest I went without changing designs. Hopefully, rev 4 will be around for awhile. The only next logical step would be to make sealed kicks, but the time to make them goes up considerably then, so would the cost.

mike

 

nahh, i was just kidding ... the only thing i upgrade so often is my computer. The panels you made me are in, look good & sound great. What more could i ask for????
~Tim

 

i would be interested in buying someones old revision 3 kicks

edit: checking new sig