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Originally Posted by bandersen
Do you think I should put a little leather conditioner on that leather surround? It's fairly dried out and stiff.
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We both need advice on this!
I also need to soften the leather surround of a late 1920s speaker (you can see it in the "really old speaker" thread i just opened)
What i'm not sure about is the effect the conditioner may have on the paper cone if it migrates into it from the surround, and the best kind of conditioner to use on paper-thin 80 years old leather
different kinds of hides were used by different manufacturers to make speaker surrounds back then, sheepskin, horse hide and carpincho were the most popular ones, determining the kind of leather used in your speaker may help in finding the right conditioner for it.
If you can'f find the missing piece of your cone, a patch cut off a scrap speaker cone of similar size will also work!