From LBYR90–(at)–rodigy.com Wed Sep 25 15:44:31 CDT 1996
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From: LBYR90–(at)–rodigy.com (Jack Price)
Newsgroups: alt.guitar.amps
Subject: Re: Grill cloth replacement for Fender Question
Date: 25 Sep 1996 06:23:59 GMT
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dav–(at)–nramp.net (David Taylor) wrote:
>
>In article <32445BCB.3E2--(at)--acbell.net>, neife–(at)–acbell.net says…
>>
>>I am getting ready to replace the grill cloth in a “66 Fender
>>Super Reverb. How do I do it. Are there any books on the subject
>>or is there anyone who has done it and give me some advice
>>Thanks in advance
>>Randy
>
>I’ve done at least a couple dozen myself, and I strongly urge you to
have
>someone experienced do it. Also, if your current grill cloth is
original,
>DON’T REMOVE IT. Old, faded and torn grill cloth is still more valuable
to
>the amp’s resale if it’s original, rather than new, reissue grill cloth.
>
>If you must, order a new baffle board and attach the speakers and the
new
>grill cloth to it, saving the old cloth, still attached to the original
>baffle board, for one day if you decide to sell the amp.
>
>
Or…..
1. Remove baffel board and speakers.
2. Remove the 2000 staples, careful not to rip original grill
any more. Tuck it away for re-sale.
3. Buy 1 sq yrd of “aged” Black White Silver from Mojo.
4. Have wife, etc help you.
5. Staple one side, I usually do the top.
6. Turn over to the oposite side, have wife pull gently, use a long
right angle square laid on the floor to align the silver thread.
Then staple. It need not be real tight yet.
7. Then rotate and do a side. Trick here is too pull just hard enough
to staple but not too hard, else your lines in the grill will bend
and
look like sh*t. Must have straight lines!!!!!!!!!!!!
8. Now do the last side. Hard to explain how to do the corners
over the net, look how the old one was cornered.
9. I don’t use the staple angle that Fender used, but I do use enough
staples were the are butted inline right next to each other.
10. Now Tom Bremmer’s and Sam Hutton’s secret. HEAT my man.
Lay board down flat and use a hair dryer and go around the edges
slowly. You will see the material tighten from the heat. I’m right
handed, so I use my left hand as a guide and it tells me if I’m
too close. The real tough part is if the grill gets too hot, it
will pull
apart with no warning. So take your time, go over and over. Don’t
put heat on the front face of the cloth, it won’t pull evenly,
just
around the edges. I use a heat gun now on the low setting. But
I’ve f*ck up two jobs up in the last year, by going too fast with
too much
heat.
PS: With grill off, now is a good time to tighten the speaker screws
if need be and or re-piant the baffle flat black.
Good Luck!
Jack A. Price
PriceLes$$ Amp Restoration
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