Dear Friends,
I'm looking for a grille cloth for a Philco 84.
Where can I find a grille cloth like this? I put some pictures of the old grille of my radio.
Thank you,
Carlos Sempere
I would look for upholstery that looks similar. Vintage grill cloth prices are ridiculous.
That works out to $108/yard BTW.
The stuff at Radio Daze is about the right color, but that is it. Too bad, that pattern was used an a lot of other radios as well.
And, like I said before, nice cat. Looks like our Wooly.
I'm sorry but that doesn't look right to me at all. In these days of 3D printing there has got to be a way to get these right. Most of the "vintage grill cloth" on eBay is nothing more than repurposed stock fabric. I had to buy a double order of this one, which really looks like it would be more at home on a chair than on the front of a radio:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vie...0970742909 It was the only fabric I could find with a diamond pattern, but since it is called grille cloth, it goes for over $100 a running yard.
The guy selling that is a running joke around here anyhow. I nicknamed him "Foggy" because every make and model of radio he refinishes gets the same two tone treatment, like a cheap guitar from K-Mart, and crappy upholstery cloth in the speaker grilles. To make matters worse he then sets his team of shill bidders to work on anything he has for sale.
Regards
Arran