Ok here they are with Watco Danish Oil. The can says flood the first coat, wait 30 minutes, reapply, wait 15 minutes and wipe dry. Any harm on adding several more coats?
Ok here they are with Watco Danish Oil. The can says flood the first coat, wait 30 minutes, reapply, wait 15 minutes and wipe dry. Any harm on adding several more coats?
Last edited by Wardsweb; 03-22-2011 at 12:35 PM. Reason: typo
That is absolutely awesome!! They look fabulous. Did you go with the natural or a specific color of the Watco? Do they actually look as red as the pic or in natural light will they appear more browish?
Whichever, they look great.
Question now is, how to treat the delicate grilles, that is the real trick and one I haven't seen addressed with the Olympus or similar S99 grilles.
When faced with another JBL find, Good mech986 says , JBL Fan mech986 says
I usually do more than three... sometimes I have continued to apply coats for several days... If you do several coats the luster will increase slightly but ultimately there will be tiny droplets of oil that come up to the surface after you have wiped them with a dry cloth. You must wipe these droplets each time they appear before they dry completely or you will have tiny shiny spots.
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The flash seems to bring out the red. I will get some pics in sun light and see if they are a more accurate representation. As for the grills, yes what to do? I'm thinking of block sanding lightly and the spraying a dark walnut finish. I'll test on the back side first and see what works.
Wow. Great work. I love the feel of oiled wood. I'd use the cabinets to house two 2235h, with a 2397 on top, as well as 2405 sitting on the 2397.
Mated to three amps and an active three-way crossover.
Ok here is a better representation of the color. This is with about 5 coats of Watco natural oil.
Lovin' the Watco here, too! Those are very pretty, indeed.
". . . as you have no doubt noticed, no one told the 4345 that it can't work correctly so it does anyway."—Greg Timbers
Makes you wonder why JBL put laquer on them in the 1st place?
Well, they didn't . . . not always. Surprisingly, it seemed to be in the later stuff where they started going with the hand-rubbed oil finishes. At least to the best of my recollection! I think all Paragons I ever saw were hand-rubbed oil. My original C37s are lacquer though, but have the late-model N2400 crossovers in them so they must have done lacquer and oil simultaneously. By customer request?
". . . as you have no doubt noticed, no one told the 4345 that it can't work correctly so it does anyway."—Greg Timbers
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