far THE most beautiful speaker ever made
After over a hundred high gloss finishes a box is pretty darn simple to cover, finish and buff. The problem is getting the two part on the
cabinet, waiting to sand and applying the next coat. The bigger the cabinet the more work it is. It's EXTREMELY labor intensive and extremely
toxic for the painter, either painting because of the ingestion into any leaks in the respirator and the dust from sanding the finish for a
finish coat or a final sanding. Buffing what is left is an art also. Those tiny swirl marks are because of a dirty buffing cloth. The other option
is to be able to put the finish coat on perfect. It's not easy if your not in a controlled booth.
A LOT of the current beauties are "wrapped". People mistake a wrap for something you can buff or refinish. LOL Simple rule, 20 years in the sun
or 50 in the shade, the wrap will fail. Paint is different you can use acrylics for almost any repair and if you're good enough you can even age the
color or clear coat to match perfect and feather the repair, then machine or hand buff. My actual shoulders, elbows, wrist bones are bone on
bone behind decades of respective usage and impact work.
I'd kiss every labor on the planet if I could for their service. I wouldn't have done anything different but I sure paid the price.
I have 3 good disk left in my neck and back, that was some good news two weeks ago. Needles to say no more 150lb one arm lifts
to put heads on engines anymore. My shoulders sounds like rice krispies anyway.
I've done some super high gloss plinth builds too. Russco's, Thoren TD124s and the typical Garrard 301/401 50 pounders. Paint and
finish is a time consuming process not well suited for my OCD tendencies. People alway got way to much for their money.
Nothing is like a beautiful Steinway premier finish in "Steinway black." I painted 3 1940s grand Ps. We didn't have power tools for block
or color sanding. It was ALL by hand and by God. Did I mention I HATE PAINTING including F&$Kin' nail polish.
Time to feed the chickens. Beauregard (the rooster) is giving me the eye. If you didn't know Beauregard was the guy that started the
uncivil war by firing on Fort Somner. That rooster has the same friggin' attitude. The neighbors cat found out in short order. LOL
I told the rooster if he had any balls he'd make a run for it, he told me why run, I have 12 hens, 4 squares, a retirement plan and
you're dumb enough to keep feedin' me. BTW Cock-a doodle-do when there's a full moon. He hasn't figured that one out yet.