Hi All,
My younger son and I are fixing up his pair of JBL 100T’s. So, now both of my sons have L100T’s. My younger son wanted to move away from the traditional walnut finish and have something a little more “orange.”'
I know it sounds gross, but we found a maker of water-based wood stains and put on three coats of translucent orange stain and two coats of Howard’s Feed N Wax. I’ll post some pictures soon, but all I can say is “WOW!” The speakers still show the nice wood grain, but they are now a deep amber color and look very rich.
We’re going to have Huntley Audio recover the grills in the old JBL orange fabric as soon as I finish fixing the frames (if you have one or two that you don’t need, let me know!).We have the fabric and it looks great with the new tone of the walnut.
As a final touch, we thought it would be nice to tint the silver aluminum “JBL” on the badge a faux gold color, like you used to see on some Conrad Johnson amps and a bunch of other aluminum items.I’ve searched and have not been able to find anything on anodizing them gold.We painted them black, sanded the letters and box around the letters fresh and let them sit in orange food coloring overnight and there was no change.
Does anyone have any ideas how we can accomplish this other than purchasing new plastic ones of ebay that are gold?
Thanks!