Making wooden headphones?

1080ski

1080ski

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it might just be me, but i think making a pair of wooden headphones that are fitted to my head would be really sweet. how would i go about doing this? i can get the actual speaker parts from other headphones, but how can i make the "headband" part conceal a wire? i was thinking about having padding on the headband, and the cable going between the wood and cable.

what other problems do you think ill run into and how can i get by these?

NOTE* i want to make over the ear headphones, not earbuds. i'll probably model them after some existing headphones i have so the padding around the ear cup fits well on the headphone
 
why do you want the wire to go through the headband anyways? can you just split the two into left and right and connect them to each end? that's the most popular design out there, it would be a lot easier for you if you just went with the norm instead of a one-wire through-headband type deal.
 
not really

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oh true i dont know why that never occured to me haha.

what is the best type of wood to use for something like this?
 
Mahogany is the BEST wood for headphones, that being said theres a tutorial on Head-fi on how to do it (well convert plastic grados to wooden like the ones posted above)

I can find a link if you really want
 
haha yeah its definitely an acquired look, it took me forever to start thinking that my grados looked sweet. But man they sound so amazing. I guess their factory consists of like 17 people too
 
i think its possible

it may take alot of time to care out a spot for the driver with a dremel or something

good luck if you try it
 
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