Painting Ampeg Grill Cloth

[AdamJames306]

Done some searches on the topic, can't seem to find an answer. What's the best way to paint an Ampeg Grill Cloth? Will regular old rattle cans get the job done?

[LarryO]

dont paint it. you can try dyeing it but you probably better off purchasing grill cloth in the color of your choice and then attaching it to the exsisting frame or building another

[NoNoise]

I agree with LarryO, just buy different cloth. That way, you will also still have the original cloth, untouched in case you want to sell the cab later.

[BogeyBass]

Another pretty silver grill gone to a horrid ghetto rattle can black?

or is it a late model black grill you want to add custom artwork too?

[AdamJames306]

Yeah, I want to paint a logo on it. I don't want it to just be all one color. Will spray paint work? I know people paint their grill cloths, I just don't know what they're using.

[rodl2005]

I don't know personally, but I'd think fabric paint which - afaik- comes in spray cans, would be best.
As I said, I've no experience in doing this, but I did do my share of fabric painting back in the '80's (when it was cool

[will33]

Grillcloth is acoustically transparent, meaning it doesn't affect the sound of the speakers playing through it. Don't know if regular paint would change that or not. Maybe a dye would be best. Plenty of metal guys have done it presumably with cheap spray paint although I don't know that you could tell the difference with raunchy distortion at deafening volume.

[BogeyBass]

Cool... graphics, logo..time to represent...fool

kidding...anyhoo, heck yah. just hit it with some spray paint, so many colors to chose from.

If yah wanna do something fancy or a intricate design, might want to get some clear transfer paper from a vinyl sign shop. Like sign or rama.

Basically a large sheet of clear tape, so you draw or trace a design on the sheet, cut the lines with a exacto blade , apply the whole sheet to your grill, and then peel or weed out the parts that you want the paint to hit, and leave the parts you want to mask.

Plus if your painting over a black grill and you want a bright color like white or yellow. After you mask the black areas you want to keep, Lightly hit the area to be painted with silver paint first. silver will cover anything. So then when you hit it with white
it will be brighter and need less paint. Since its hard to get a light color to cover black.

some graphics programs, i forget the names will poster a picture for you so it will make a picture as large as you want, you just have to burn alot of ink and connect multiple sheets of standard 8.5x11 sheets. the program will automatically enlarge the image across multiple sheets and you have to line em up after you print. Then you lay the large clear transfer tape over that printed image to trace it. and then cut whatever lines you need to use.

[AdamJames306]

Thanks Bogey! That's what I wanted to hear. And I am using yellow, so the silver idea sounds good.

[BritPicker]

For enlarging graphics onto multiple sheets :

PosteRazor - Make your own poster!

Oh, and as for using a lot of ink, just try to print it out as line art rather than big solid areas of black. There's filters in Photoshop etc that allow you to do that.