Ghetto Home Made Leslie (experiment 5)

I installed an L-pad in my Leslie recently to control woofer volume. I also explain a little more about the design.

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Comedy

Tags:

• ghetto
• DIY
• home-made
• leslie

[armstronglance]

Did you have the volume cranked in this demo? If not, it sounds like maybe the V21 driver coil needs a little centering.

[wado1942]

@armstronglance

I did. I fed my M3 with the volume pedal maxed and the amp adjusted fairly high internally. Believe me, it's not nearly that dirty at normal levels.

[gnrfanatic141414]

could i get the links for all the parts? i'm building one too, and everything i'm finding is extremely over-priced.

[wado1942]

@gnrfanatic141414

You know, I got most of the important bits & pieces off Ebay. I had to watch A LOT of auctions over a period of months to get exactly what I wanted within my price range. The wood, sheet metal, wire & jacks etc are just scrap I had. The L-pad is something I got when I worked at an electronics distriibutor for a specific project (I usually order extra parts so this was an extra). The screws were all stuff I had already and the wood glue was "Tight Bond" from Ace Hardware.

[xr650r01]

Very cool!! Awesome little (well not little) project!! Well done!

[paulj0557]

For newbe Leslie people, it's not really common knowledge that the dual rotor ( horn) as seen in this video is two horns, but just one of the horns has an element/driver in it. The other horn is there only for the purpose of counter balancing the working one. This is how Leslie designed the unit. It is said that Leslie tried both horns, but found the single sided design worked better.

When I got my first Leslie back in 97' ( a 122 for $200 it was from around 1959-60) I thought it was broken.

[CTOL1]

Great progression pretty cool project Thanks for sharing

[twrassi]

Thank you for the video. I've never seen one of these spinning organ speakers before but people have told me about them. Nice to see (& hear) it in action.