Looking for comments on speaker cloth for this Crosley. The stuff that is in it is one option. My other choices are whiskey rayon or new leaf reverse side from richmonddesignsinc.com. The old stuff is trash. And you can see what it looked like when I got it.
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Whiskey Rayon looks good in most radios, but you can see the original pattern better in person. The reverse New Leaf would give it more of a pattern, so that's my vote.
John KK4ZLF
Lexington, KY
"illegitimis non carborundum"
Yes I like the wiskey rayon. I have used it some other radios. I think it's just a little too fine a weave for this big a radio. I think the grandma's couch pattern that I have shown kinda goes with the style of case.
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I have no idea about originality, but I do like the cloth you show in the first picture. The subtle symmetric pattern seems to fit the style of the cabinet, at least to my eyes.
Not sure... IT is not terrible but there is something about it... IT looks a little... ?? Maybe it is too light? If you tone it a little it will be more of the brownish.
If YOU like the one in it now then who cares what someone else thinks. You are the one who has to look at it every day.
I think I read somewhere that you can soak and tint the grille cloth using teabags and steeped water to give it kind of an aged look. Never have done this myself, but might be worth checking into.
(03-25-2018, 07:01 AM)OldRestorer Wrote: Not sure... IT is not terrible but there is something about it... IT looks a little... ?? Maybe it is too light? If you tone it a little it will be more of the brownish.
If YOU like the one in it now then who cares what someone else thinks. You are the one who has to look at it every day.
(03-27-2018, 05:21 PM)Electrothaumaturgist Wrote: I think I read somewhere that you can soak and tint the grille cloth using teabags and steeped water to give it kind of an aged look. Never have done this myself, but might be worth checking into.
I have done this to my teeth, not sure about cloth!
(03-25-2018, 07:01 AM)OldRestorer Wrote: Not sure... IT is not terrible but there is something about it... IT looks a little... ?? Maybe it is too light? If you tone it a little it will be more of the brownish.
If YOU like the one in it now then who cares what someone else thinks. You are the one who has to look at it every day.
(03-27-2018, 05:21 PM)Electrothaumaturgist Wrote: I think I read somewhere that you can soak and tint the grille cloth using teabags and steeped water to give it kind of an aged look. Never have done this myself, but might be worth checking into.
I have tried things that sound clever and they do not work, sometimes unconvential yields results. ya neva know, give it a try.