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I really enjoy this hobby. The combination of audio equipment, music, electronics, and woodworking is exciting. The next project I'm onto now, is to refinish a couple of pair of JBL speakers. I've got a pair of L100 Century, and a pair of 4311's. The L100's are going to be re-veneered with sapele veneer from Certainly Wood. Sapele is like mahogany and this batch that I'm using is quartersawn. The 4311's will simply be sanded and refinished. I'll be installing new cane grill cloth on both pairs.
If you'd like to send an
email to me, please do so at the following address:
gregroberts@roadrunner.com
All the components work on these speakers. The only flaw is one tweeter has the dustcap pushed in. I'll take some photos of the components later, they are beautifully made, like all the JBL speakers of the 70's.
Here's the "before" shot! These originally had the
segmented foam grills and someone replaced them with similar foam.
You can tell it's a replacement because the squares on the foam are not
evenly centered in the grill. I was not able to find replacement
foam grills, so I'll be installing cane grill cloth.
The 4311's had a few issues with the veneer, like this chip.
I'll have to repair a few chips like this.
ON the L100's, here's what I was facing. With this kind of
problem, there's not much you can do. I thought about filling
the gap and painting the grain back in. But that still really
wouldn't look right. So I'll be reveneering these.
4311 chip.
L100 grill all cleaned up. But I'm not even going to use
the grill frames for these.
Another 4311 repair.
The L100 tweeter foams will be replaced. My L100's are
quite a bit older than the 4311's I'd say.
L100 grill without the foam.
I cleaned them up for nothing! Oh well!
Maybe I can sell them as is on ebay.
I had to straighten out the grill frames because they were slightly
warped.
I sprayed water on the wood and then weighted them down over a
piece of wood. This actually worked!
Prepping for sanding.
L100 sanded.
A couple of AR4x's snuck into the shop to be refinished too.
The 4311's are sanded to 120 grit here.
I'm adding an edge molding to the front of the L100's.
This will be covered with the sapele veneer on 2 sides and then painted
black on the inside edges.
If you'd like to see more of my work, please click here,
Zebrawood Heresy Project.
This is a re-veneer project that I did for Gary Powers ("garymd" on the
Klipsch Forum
Gary has offered to be a reference for my work,
so if you'd like to contact him, please click here
Gary Powers.
You may also visit these sites
Rosewood Khorns
Zebrawood Cornwall II's
Klipsch La Scala's