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| Crowquill:
I have the same problem in my cab. What I ended up doing was using some black stick-on foam (craft dept. at Wal-mart) to cover the hole. Since it sticks to the wood around the hole on the inside, it keeps light from the marquee from showing through too (which was my biggest concern). Are you actually looking for a wire mesh or just a sheet of metal with a grid of holes? I'm going to be using the latter. I wish I knew where to get the stuff, mine was a piece salvaged from a display at work (free!). The hole spacing is a bit different, but it's almost exactly the same material used for the speaker grills on my Primal Rage cabinet. I keep putting off cutting and mounting it because I'm paranoid I'll screw it up. |
| gamecreature:
--- Quote from: Crowquill on June 14, 2006, 10:59:51 am --- Are you actually looking for a wire mesh or just a sheet of metal with a grid of holes? I'm going to be using the latter. I wish I knew where to get the stuff, mine was a piece salvaged from a display at work (free!). The hole spacing is a bit different, but it's almost exactly the same material used for the speaker grills on my Primal Rage cabinet. I keep putting off cutting and mounting it because I'm paranoid I'll screw it up. --- End quote --- Yes, that would work nicely. Plastic would work, too. I just can't seem to find the stuff. I'll probably go with the masonite solution that Madk posted... |
| Pasqualz:
All, I went crazy for over two weeks trying to find speaker grill cloth and speaker fabric. Nobody had it, except a few places that wanted to sell me a huge roll. Then it hit me! Plain old fabric! I ran to my local fabric & craft store and amazingly, they had 58 zillion types of fabric. Different colors, thicknesses, patterns, you name it. I bought 2 yards of black fabric that was pretty thick (you could make a pair of pants out of it,) for a total cost of $5.98. I stapled the fabric on and it looked awesome. I stapled it on so tight that you can't even tell it's fabric, unless you look closely. Done and done! |
| 97thruhiker:
If your gonna keep black as your color I'd recommend scoring yourself a piece of black laminate. Using counter top laminate is really easy and it gives a great durable finish (just thing about the abuse your kitchen counter top takes). It will cover your exisiting speaker hole cleanly. As far as speaker grills for the ones you want to install, if you do not have any, one option out there are shower drains. I used two plastic ones that had a retro look to their slot pattern and painted them black. They are easy to install as they have a lip on the outer edge (so the hole you cut does not have to be perfect). They popped right into the holes I cut with my jig-saw. The make stainless steel ones if you wanted a metal look. |
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