Thread: grill cloth

Originally Posted by old_picker

i am after some grille cloth for a guitar cabinet
not hifi i know but close
must be hardy - any ideas??

The high frequency effects of most grill cloths don't really matter that much for guitar cabinets, as most have rolled off a fair bit by this point anyway (probably starts rolling off around 5k). So I'd just get some thin black polyester from a material shop. Perhaps surprisingly, the frame will actually have a greater effect on the frequency response of the cabinet, I'd suggest a careful design to minimize diffraction issues.

You can get grill cloth from Jaycar electronics.

Hi, knowing you are in Melbourne have you tried a business called Total Recoil, they are a speaker repair shop, if they don't stock i'm sure they would know where details attached:
804 High Street, Thornbury. Victoria 3071
Phone (03) 9480 2466 Fax (03) 480 2944
www.totalrecoil.com.au

Regards,
Trevor

Have you tried your local upholstery or motor trimming supplies place ? Look them up in the yellow pages under Upholstering supplies. I am sure you will find what youre after. Im a muso and make my own cases and cabs. Even if you went to an upholsterer, they may have offcuts left over from jobs which you may get dirt cheap.
Neil.

Try http://www.ampparts.com/content/estore_list.asp

I wouldn't buy "grill cloth" you will pay a lot more for essentially the same thing.

Originally Posted by nev25

Try http://www.ampparts.com/content/estore_list.asp

couldnt find grill but all the tolex is there
actually bought a bunch of fender grill off ebay
thanks

some of the valve radio type stores have repro or genuine old stock grill cloth.

Or go down the boogie line and use cane chair bottom.

you buy it ready woven from an upholstery supplier.

was good enough for carlos the latino guitar god.

cheers

I ordered this stuff from Rocker. http://www.rockler.com/product.cfm?p...peaker%20cloth They call it speaker cloth. Seems to work just fine.

...At the risk of evoking the wrath of the audiophiles (as I did on one of the amp building forums I visit!), I have used 60% knitted shade cloth for grille on both guitar & hifi cabinets... This stuff is about as resilient as it gets - the cats have been caught climbing up with no problems!

looks great on my guitar cabinet with the grille inset, isn't so pretty on the front-mount hifi grilles - the corners are a bit of a problem to make neatly (I'll perhaps try to 'weld' the corners with a soldering iron one day, if I ever have to do this again).

the audio? my cloth-ears can't tell- gut feeling suggests the polyester would cause some high frequency dispersion though.

Best wishes,
david

nothing wrong with shade cloth worth worrying about.
Certainly fine on guitar cabs.
you might get some very minor atrenuation at very high frequencies and perhaps some small amount of dispersion.

It is very common to cover speaker towers for concerts in shade cloth.

cheers

Comes in a range of colours too!

i actually bought some ex fender stuff off epay
d@mn expensive but looks cool

Labros runs this place:

http://www.achilliesamps.com/

seems a nice bloke, having a go, and sells cloth,valves,tolex, etc as well as his own point to point amps.