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Looking for comments on speaker cloth
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03-27-2018, 08:16 PM
(03-25-2018, 08:01 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. Icon_wink

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(03-27-2018, 06:21 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! Icon_rolleyes

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Looking for comments on speaker cloth - by OZ4 - 03-24-2018, 01:53 PM
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