Speaker Grill Cloth Fabric Black Yard 36" Wide

This product provides the best speaker protection that I have come across. It is a woven plastic that is quite stiff and very strong. The appearance is very good indeed. But it is difficult to work with. It comes in a roll, so it already has a "set" that makes it difficult to work with. Plastics can be softened with heat to make them more pliable. But this material has a very low melting point that makes softening infeasible (it melts before it softens).My initial attempt was to stretch and tack an oversized piece to the workbench, and then glue the material to the edges of the frame. I tried to use super glue, but that didn't work, and I didn't have any of the quick drying adhesive that is made specially for this application. So I stapled the material to one of the long edges of the frame and then did my best to stretch and staple to the other long edge. I was unable to completely remove the natural "bow" that resulted from that cause by the rolled form it came in. But the result is still very good indeed. It looks better than the original and provides better protection.One other point to note: thai materal is thicker than the typical stock cloth. This causes an imperfect fit of the interior finishing frame. However, I doubt anyone will notice unless they look closely.I recommend that you use my initial approach but use some quick setting adhesive to attached the material to the edge of the frame before stapling.

As stated by others, this is NOT cloth, more like woven plastic strands. So if you are looking to cover car speakers or home speakers, this might not be what you are looking for. But for speaker cabinets for musical instrument, this works great. I got this 'cus I was redoing a 28 year old Gorilla practice amp that I had sitting in the closet. Nothing special, just freshening it up. This looks like the exact same material! I'm not 100% that it's the exact same weave pattern as the Gorilla amp, but it sure looks the same. It also looks like a match for my Peavey 215 and 118 cabinets (also about 28 years old, so I don't know if newer Peavey cabinets use the same material). It's nice to know that if the grills on my Peavey cabinets ever get damaged, I can redo them with what "seems" to be the correct material.

The product image shows what looks like silvery highlights but the actual product is jet black and feels more like plastic than cloth. It is fairly stiff which is good for protection but difficult to make sharp folds around corners and edges... not necessarily a bad thing, just something to know if you were expecting a more cloth-like look and feel. Also note that the fabric is easy to misalign so pay attention when stretching otherwise you end up with a slanted pattern. The weave is very open and coarse so anything behind that is light-colored or reflective will likely show through. If this is not the look you want then do what I did on my 212 guitar cabinet: Paint the baffle and exposed speaker screws flat black before covering. This gives a nice custom look with very little see-through. Now I just need to see how the fabric holds up under "stage" conditions.

I think this may be overpriced but really unsure. Just seems pricey for what it is but…. It looks great and feels like it will be able to withhold years of torture.

I am not happy with this product. It's more like black chicken wire it is so stiff. Looks cheap on good speakers. I went to the local sewing store and bought a very nice material for $2.

Easy to install, very acoustically transparent. The material proved to be very consistent and strong. Has been installed for some time now and no sagging has occurred, remains tight and straight. Apparently very durable as no tears or wears have become visible. I have used many other grill cloth materials and and can say that installation of this material is relatively easy. The only drawback to use of this cloth would be visible transparency, light can easily be seen through the cloth. Since acoustic and visible transparency go hand-in-hand, I am willing to accept the visible to have the acoustic. My solution was to simply paint the background but it is a consideration for those who lean more toward appearance over sound. Just saying . . .

The pictures of this product show some "texture". It is not textured, and is a solid, very transparent thin plastic weave. Also, there are NO RETURNS on this product since it is custom cut. I don't remember seeing that stated in the text.

I've only replaced the grill cloth on a couple of other amps, and I remember the cloth I bought was more pliable and more expensive and more like real cloth, so even though this material was stiff like others state, and more plastic than cloth-like, and harder to bend around corners, I attribute it to the fact that it is cheaper, so I got what I paid for. When I unrolled the cloth, there were two distinct lines all down the length, a dark line, where the "thread" was bunched closer together, and a faint line a few inches away, like the run in a woman's nylon stocking...I was irritated a bit, but after getting it installed it was unnoticeable, as the speaker cone and wood mounting surfaces behind it were solid black. A non-issue after all. 3 Amazon stars mean "okay", and it was just.....okay. And maybe, just maybe, this stiffer material will be less susceptible to damage at gigs, and while transporting, and I won't have to spend time and money replacing grill cloth on my amps...