An 11" for Steve -- Continued . . .

Steve's 11" Lightholder primary sits on a 6-point flotation mirror cell.
The custom color sure makes the Baltic birch "pop"!!

The mirror board, mirror installed and custom fitted mirror cover.

The focuser is a Moonlite 2-speed 2" crayford and
spider is a 3-vane, curved vane by Destiny. The
secondary is an Antares 1/20th wave mirror.

An 11" and Two 16's . . .

Cuttin' some wood!! On the left is a 16" truss with full upper cage assembly
for Tom in Salt Lake City, Utah. On the right is a 16" parallel-strut for
Chuck in Lakewood, Washington (this will have the Easy Transport
Telescope option -- The 12" ruler is for "scale". 

Steve's 11" just before applying the "custom color" and installing
the focuser -- the spider is curved-vane with spring loaded collimation.

An Update from Kristian in Lake Placid, Florida . . .

Dennis,

Just wanted to let you know I love my 13.1” dob.  I am very happy with the smoothness of the motions it is all of such high workmanship in the design.  I finally got a site tube and aligned my secondary mirror to the focuser.  Last week I had the scope out for 7 hours and the dew heater you installed worked perfectly.  I am still waiting on my Paracorr 2 but it has shipped and will be here soon.  I’ll let you know how things go when I get my coma corrector.  Thanks again for building me such a nice scope.  It’s perfect “for me”.

Cheers

K

And, a Bit More on Steve's 11" . . .

The rocker box sides and altitude bearings for Steve's 11"
telescope with Lightholder primary -- nice!!

An 11" for Steve . . .

The OTA rings for Steve's 11" Lightholder primary mirror is underway.
Steve lives in Berkeley, California.

A Rocker Box Kit for a 12" Lightbridge . . .

Completed and packaged is a kit for William's 12" Lightbridge
telescope -- William lives in Arcadia, California.

Tony's 6" Kit -- Completed . . .

A complete 6" F5 kit for Tony in Rochester, New York. The kit includes
optics, curved-vane spider, single-speed focuser and mirror cell.