Similar to the mini-rustic with some refinements, this ones made of purpleheart as I found a small affordable piece at yandles. The main modification apart from the wood is the use of a metal plate to mount the electronics – makes the building of it much simpler. Fine through dovetails and a lot of wax polish makes for a very pretty speaker.

I’ll be making a proper run of these very soon – though not in purpleheart as I don’t have enough, Oak may well feature however.

The amplifier has a healthy amount of gain so works to pretty high volumes with most inputs, however this means it can distort quite easily with louder sources. Typical maximum volume I found without noticable distorting was around 90dB @ 0.5m -which is plenty. This is mainly limited by the complexity of the music and its bass content, some pieces can be played louder others need to be played much quieter.

Specification:
25 x 10 x 6cm,
2x 3w amplifier,
2x 2.5″ drivers,
3.5mm jack input,
combined volume & on/off switch,
4x AA batteries for power.