I have a pair of Canton Ergo 92DC floorstanding speakers in a black ash finish that are somewhat narrow for their height. They are about 40.5" high, while just 9" wide and 12" deep. In our old house, we had them on spikes over carpeted suspended floors. Even with the spikes, our cats could tip them over if they tried.
Our new house has luxury vinyl plank flooring over concrete. I won't be spiking into the vinyl flooring, so what stability I had before with these speakers I now have lost. I came up with the idea of building my own wood outriggers to try and stabilize the speakers. I will be mounting the wood boards to the bottom of the speakers, then adding some isolation pads or similar to the boards themselves.
I settled on red oak for this project, given the speakers weight 52 lbs. Not exactly a heavy floorstanding speaker, but I figured a softer wood might crack or be easily marred under the weight of the speakers. The red oak boards are extremely solid
For this pair of speakers, I have four 1x4 boards cut to about 18" in length (a 6' board cut into four pieces, so ever so slightly less than 18", but precision wasn't needed here). I would like to stain these boards black to match up better with the speaker's black ash finish. It's doesn't need to match, but anything black enough would be less of a color mismatch.
Does anyone have some advice about staining red oak black? Again, I am not necessarily looking for a table or cabinet precise finish. But it would help with the WAF (wife approval factor) if the colors were similar and the red oak boards didn't stand out.
Our new house has luxury vinyl plank flooring over concrete. I won't be spiking into the vinyl flooring, so what stability I had before with these speakers I now have lost. I came up with the idea of building my own wood outriggers to try and stabilize the speakers. I will be mounting the wood boards to the bottom of the speakers, then adding some isolation pads or similar to the boards themselves.
I settled on red oak for this project, given the speakers weight 52 lbs. Not exactly a heavy floorstanding speaker, but I figured a softer wood might crack or be easily marred under the weight of the speakers. The red oak boards are extremely solid
For this pair of speakers, I have four 1x4 boards cut to about 18" in length (a 6' board cut into four pieces, so ever so slightly less than 18", but precision wasn't needed here). I would like to stain these boards black to match up better with the speaker's black ash finish. It's doesn't need to match, but anything black enough would be less of a color mismatch.
Does anyone have some advice about staining red oak black? Again, I am not necessarily looking for a table or cabinet precise finish. But it would help with the WAF (wife approval factor) if the colors were similar and the red oak boards didn't stand out.
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