[par4tom]

I now turned my attention to sealing off the back of the kickpod from the outside elements. To do this, I took a piece of 100% polyester fleece (You can get it at any fabric store - be sure to get the type that stretches a bit and does NOT have the backing) and stretched it across my speaker apparatus and stapled it to my back plate.

I would advise never using shop mat again. It is way to hard to work with and won't produce the results you want. Here you can see the speaker pods after I had glassed them with polyester resin. I use Home Depot resin along with a handful of 2" chip brushed to apply.

A word on applying resin to fleece - You will notice that I used a blue fleece to cover the speakers for resin. This is because the fleece will turn completely black when you have saturated the cloth all the way through to the back. Make sure that you get 100% penetration of the resin into the fleece cloth or your build will not be as rigid.

Some guys prefer to use a heavier fleece. Some guys like to use speaker grill cloth. I don't like either because the grill cloth is not strong enough and the superheavy fleece is a waste of resin. Resin is expensive...

Here you can see the fleece cloth after a couple of coats of resin. I coated the inside as well...