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Topic: Age-ing grille cloth |
Dave Meis
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Olympic Peninsula, Washington, USA
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Posted 24 Jun 2019 11:54 am |
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| Has anyone been successful? I have a '65 Band Master, and I want to match it.. I don’t want to dismount the cloth. Thanks! |
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Eric Philippsen
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Central Florida USA
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Posted 24 Jun 2019 1:39 pm
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I’m guessing that “ageing†means giving it a brown tinge such as older amps often have.
Never done it myself but I have read that new grill cloth can be aged by soaking it in a strong tea solution. There would be any number of ways to do that but I would imagine one method would be to remove the speaker, put the strong tea solution in a spray bottle, and then apply it. You’d obviously have to be careful and take into consideration if the baffle board was made of compressed wood. |
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Gabriel Edell
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Hamilton, Ontario
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Posted 24 Jun 2019 2:19 pm
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That brown tinge on old amps is from cigarette smoke.
You could put the amp in some sort of small enclosure with a bunch of lit cigarettes. It will smell terrible - you'll have to air the amp out afterwards. Not sure how many times you'd have to do it either.
I've heard of this process used to "relic" guitars. Should work for the amp too.
Maybe the tea is a better idea. . .
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Godfrey Arthur
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3rd Rock
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Dave Meis
From:
Olympic Peninsula, Washington, USA
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Posted 24 Jun 2019 4:34 pm
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| The grille is on a stand alone Fender reverb unit, so with the reverb removed, it's just a frame with the cloth on it. That's why I was thinking to soak the whole thing...sorry I left that part out... 😃 |
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Eric Philippsen
From:
Central Florida USA
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Posted 25 Jun 2019 4:50 am
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| If one were to go the “tea†route and the baffle were made of pressed board you’d have to figure out how long to soak it all. I’d evenly spray the cloth a little (w/ speaker removed), let it dry, and see how it turned out. That wouldn’t negatively harm or warp the baffle. Not enough moisture. If the result wasn’t dark or brown enough I’d repeat the procedure. It would be a process similar to applying several light coats of paint instead of s single, heavy one. |
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Erv Niehaus
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Litchfield, MN, USA
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Posted 25 Jun 2019 7:57 am
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When I have refinished some Stringmasters, I use a tinted clear coat as the final pass to give them an aged look.
You just keep spraying until you get the tone you want.
You might consider doing something like this.
Erv |
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Dave Meis
From:
Olympic Peninsula, Washington, USA
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Posted 25 Jun 2019 10:10 am
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| Thanks guys..I'm going to try the tea thing with a spray bottle. I'll put up some before and afters... |
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