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Speaker Grill Material
stratjakt:
Have a look here http://www.mnpctech.com/modsupplies.html, check out the "modders mesh". It's basically a metal grille-like stuff, I think its aluminum, its easy to bend and form..
BSR:
The material you're looking for is called ABS (Acrylonitrile-Butadine-Styrene) pastic with a textured hair-cell finish. You should be able to get a quarter sheet for under $10, but without the holes.
I never found a place that offered perforated holes for ABS. The places that do perforated hole plastics usually just use polypropylene or PVC which are not the right type of material. Polypropylene is a clear/translucent material; smooth on both sides.
I did find a place that does metal perforating that would be willing to do a sheet of ABS if I shipped it to them.
In the end, I decided to just drill the holes myself since the piece I needed was fairly small.
Crazy Cooter:
My local hardware store carries that.
tivogre:
I used one of the metal mesh trash cans.
I routed a recess in the speaker panel and tacked the mesh down with staples:
Then I "painted" the mesh with 2 part epoxy, bringing it to s smooth surface level with the surrounding wood:
After a final touch up with Bondo to completely smooth it out:
I painted the panel black:
And then covered it with black grill cloth:
This is what you see looking up at the finished speaker panel:
It's extremely acoustically transparent, and protects the speaker cones very well.
Way more detail is on the construction web site:
http://www.ogredog.com/mame_construction_home.htm
...staring around day 13.
southpaw13:
That's cool, but I wanted to get away from using speaker cloth. I wanted some type of material that would just screw in and look finished. I also noticed that material I'm looking for on Atari cabs like kangaroo...
Basically the same stuff as a regular metal speaker grill from a car but in sheet form...
Thanks,
-Southpaw