Baffle

The Baffle

Covering the baffle in a correct manner needs a bit of experience and the right tools. But as long as you’ve got sharp scissors, a right angle and a stapler you are ready to go. The difficulty is to cover and clutch the fabric that way, that the pattern goes straight in vertical and horizontal direction all over the surface and even along the edges.
I have taken pictures from the most important steps to show you how it’s done. It is too important that you work as precisely as possible from the very start. If you fail at the start you’ll have to pay the bill at the lastest when you examine your work after finishing.

Cutting the outlines of the grill cloth.

Place the first clamp at the mid of the baffle's edge.

Pic 1: Here is the baffle (for the 10” speaker) which needs to get coated now. The black paint will avoid the light wood to shimmer through the fabric.

Pic 2: The grill-cloth is to be cut to have an overlap to all sides of ~ 2cm when flipped to the backside of the baffle.

Pic 3: A first clamp has to be placed in the middle of the first edge. This is best done with an electric stapler, but a mechanical one does it as well.

Pic 5: Having stapled one side taking care to keep the fabric’s pattern as straight as possible, use the right angle to find the exact mid position on the oppostie side. Place a clamp - under easy tension - at this position.

Pic 4: Now pull the fabric easily along the wooden egde and place clamp after clamp. Take care to let the pattern of the grill-cloth exactly follow the line. If you see that the line is going wrong, remove the last clamps and start again from where it failed.Do this until you come close to the corners. .

Pic 6: So place clamp after clamp again pulling the fabric easily. The final tension will come by itself as you proceed.

Pic 7: Hier you can see how the pattern-line follows the edge of the baffle. Click on the picture to enlarge.

Do it the same way for the other sides as well and always consequently care for the pattern to be straight. Perform an easy pull always during setting the clamps. The right tension of the fabric will then come automatically. Too much pull will it make impossible to keep the pattern in order all over the surface. Having finalized this just fold and wrap the cloth at the corners an fix it with the stapler. auf dem Holz mit Klammern befestigt.

As mentioned before: If you have lost the pattern-line then remove some of the clamps again and restart from there. If you dont do it, you view will later on always be caught by this ugly piece and you’ll hate it.

English is not my native language. But I have tried my very best to make this process understandable for you.