Grill Cloth Installation - Guitar Amplifier - Cabinet Building - DIY Stretching Speaker Baffle 

This is a very informative video. Since I am 70, I will have to improvise on the jumping up on the table part.😃

Tightening up the grill cloth with a heat gun is a master hack! Great video!

I just did a very sloppy version of this, wish I would've seen your video before I started! Great tips.

I followed your directions and got a great result, so thank you. The heat gun trick is the bomb! 🙂

These videos you've been doing on amp head, combo amp and speaker cab construction along with videos on all the other components are excellent! Very cool and helpful. If you could do a video on amp maintenance around deoxidizing pots and other components where that's needed and dealing with tube pins & tube sockets or anything else you tend to do more on amps you've had for a while, that would also be very cool. I'll try to help get the work out on your vids as this is all great for interested folks like me and I don't see anyone else going into this level of detail.

Thanks to your video I was able to do a professional quality job on this 1969 Guild. Thanks!

Great tutorial! I’m doing this for the first time on an amplifier project, and I never would have thought to use a heat gun as shown in the video.

These videos are a bit like Zen and the Art of Amplifier Maintenance :)

Thanks i was surging for a video , i want to change my grill for a Marshall Woburn , good tips thanks , from the Netherlands

This was really helpful. I've hot rodded an '89 Peavey Rage. OHHHHH, jealous. It was free. I have much better amps. There are much worse too. It's good for what it is. Painted turquoise, corners ivory, screw heads gold and all glossed. Amp was free and grubby. Rust, etc. Bugger was getting the powder coat off completely from the metal parts. Bought an off cut of Fender style silver face cloth for $20...vs $170 for a square yard. Last step before re-assemble was grill cloth. I couldn't kneel on it as the baffle is too small and crappy. It might break. But I managed otherwise and got a pretty square and tight result. Some waviness, but it's fine. Didn't know to shrink. Looks rad, sounds okay. Thanks.

Best one yet, thanks friend for the help. I might test my heat gun on scrap so I can work up the nerve to shrink the real thing.

i like the fact that luke's lightsabre is just chilling on the mantle.

You're amazing bro. Thank you!!

What fortune that I watched this, yesterday I removed the ripped up grill off of a 63 reissue reverb tank, didn't think there was a front or back, but now I know (thanks:). But as for hopping up on the thing and holding it down with my knees, that couldn't happen if there was a gun pointed at my head (I have arthritis:) But I will seek to figure out a way to clamp it down firmly to an object while I staple. I would always install the staples side to side not vertically as that's how the factory staples were in it, as well as every baffle board I've ever examined. Note about the Reverb tank: There was an inch wide area under the staples with heavy contact cement, I don't know what kind of jig Fender had to use that glue but I'm not going to try it, besides I doubt vintage reverb tanks had it. 2ndly I found that the cushion they used to suppress the springs in the event of it being bounced had devolved into a chunk of crumbling cake..that's right, it needs to be replaced and I think just about any foam of the correct dimensions would have been better than what was in there, what were they trying to save 2 cents per unit?

Excellent, best tutorial, thank you!

Great work. Very helpfull. Thanks.

Good tutorial. Thank tou

I hope to learn the way how to Curved Grill Cloth Installation like Zeppelin Wireless.

Nice job! You’re a pro!

There are these things called “clamps”, that pull things tightly together so you don’t have to clomb on a table!

Thanks so much for this video, man. I had no idea the cloth would shrink a little with a heat gun! This is very timely, as I just received cloth to put on my Showman cab. What about lacquering or repairing tweed amps that are getting ragged, but keeping it original as to not lose value?

Have you ever removed vintage fender grill cloth and re-installed it on a new (NOT CRUMBLING) baffle board successfully? From what I understand Fender installed the cloths by placing the cloth on a frame and stretching it pretty taught and then the baffle was placed on top of that and pressed down into it while secured with staples. I have a vintage 1965 pro reverb that I want to put a stronger modern baffle in to hold more heavier modern speakers and honestly want to keep the cloth original as it is quite aged and is a big part of the look of the amp. Know of anyone who has done this or can point me in the right direction?

Nice work! Thanks for the tips on corners especially. One question, why did you orient your staples perpendicular to the edges rather than parallel? Again, great vid thanks!

Thx again for great vid👌

they look great !!

Thank you for making this. I’ve been building custom cabs for people lately and this video has helped me immensely with my quality control. I still can’t get non-nylon, non-fender style grills like Orange/Basketweave or Marshall-Style to shrink with a heat gun even after spraying with water. Am I doing something wrong?

Great vid, thanks!

What a great video, thanks! May I ask what temperature you set your heat gun to?

The salt and pepper grill cloth from tubes and more says it's made from treated paper. I have a feeling that it won't shrink like the others. Do you know anything about that or have any tips?

Hi, thanks for the video. In what power do you have the Heat Gun, is it on 1 or 2?

Do you have a print out on how to do the end corners?

What color did you use for the small front panel? I need to replace the grill on a 63-64 bandmaster head (with black knobs) and I want to do it as original as posible. Thank you! Love your videos

Outstanding! Can I get a link to get that grill clothes?

I may be a little slow here but what does the heating physically do? And that effect remains when it cools down again? Thanks

Where can i source this grill cloth, please? Thanks for sharing the amazing video ❤

Is it a whole bunch of Universal Audio LA-2As in the background???

ARE THE BOARDS YOU ARE USING 1/2 INCH PLYWOOD ? I AM JUST LEARNING HOW TO MAKE THEM. ANY HELP WOULD BE THANKFUL.

Ned Flanders knows his sh*t!

Hi! Great videos!! Would you mind telling me what type of stapler and staples you use? Thanks again!

Can you share the model number of the staple gun you are using. Thx!

Are they actually designed to be heat shrunk? Or is it more of a trick?

How many Watts is that heat gun? Or make/model#? On a previous build, I have accidentally melted the grill cloth using a heat gun .. horrors! >:-( I wonder if a hair dryer would work?

I ordered some bamboo for a mesa cab The bamboo is not straight. It's really stiff and dry feeling and scared to work with it. Took a month to get here. Should I return it?

Safety Goggles are for protecting the hair now?

Clamps