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Re: C37 anyone tried it on single driver spk cones??

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Posted by Doc B. on July 9, 1999 at 08:25:30

In Reply to: Re: C37 anyone tried it on single driver spk cones?? posted by abc on July 9, 1999 at 01:25:48:

C37 is real different stuff than typical nitrocellulose or acrylic lacquer. I'm waving a bottle of it under my nose at the moment ( hey for the money, all possible recreational enhancement should be extracted from that pee wee bottle) and it has smell more akin to model paint thinner, along with some other sort of oil and turps stuff going on, more like varnish than lacquer. Much deeper color than typical lacquer as well.

I have used it in the past on metal drivers and it can cut the zing a bit. So yeah, it did something positive, but on the other hand I didn't buy the bottle, it was sent to me by a bud. The retail price seems pretty expensive for a nail polish bottle full of the stuff. If cost is a concern, one might check out Dammar varnish at an art supply store. I've been told it gives a similar effect for less mullah.

BTW I've been told recently that the latest theory is it wasn't the varnish per se that made a Strad sound the way it does. I'm told the varnish used seems to have opened the individual cells in the wood's structure, and this seems to be the thing that makes a Strad really different than the competition across town.
So I've been told, anyway.

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