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Yep! I used Watco Danish Oil in Medium Walnut. Thats only the 2nd coat which I just applied. I'm going to wet sand the next coat and I think I'll stop there. is there anything I can put on after that I can buffer and make it look beautiful smooth satin?

1 down. 1 to go. Plus the risers. Don't know if I'm just going to refinish them black and see if I like that, otherwise I'd rather leave them without risers until I can find someone to build custom risers(I hate the risers on these models. Way too cheap 80s furniture looking.) the wood filler i used was too dry and didn't stay on and it dried really white. I'm hoping a walnut paint marker will paint over it to match.

very nice! Hey Snooka, I decided to get all the drivers out now to start sanding tomorrow. My only experience was with a center channel. If you haven't already done it, removing the 15-inch woofer is tricky, it's very heavy. I did it while the speaker was standing, but there's got to be a better way because it almost slipped out of my hands. I imagine it's slightly easier to lay the speaker down to put the woofer in, but i don't know about removing it.

Wow, really? Very interesting. Figured anything wet was a no-no. Do you have photos of your newly reconed passive?

Good to know, thank you. I'll check out ACE or Lowes. Getting the passive reconed will be with different materials? Will it be obvious that the stock will be different looking from the reconed one?

Sorry to mess with your thread snooka, but I too just got myself some black Chorus II this past Saturday. 2 different cabinets(both black but 1 has an older tag on the back and the other has the newer tags I've seen on KLF series). The cabinets need to be refinished for now but eventually will need new veneer as many spots are coming off and has lots of broken off veneer. I plan on sanding the black down to the natural wood color. I got a little bit of experience with doing so to my RC-7 that was in really bad shape. Used Medium Walnut Watco Danish Oil and plan to do the same to the Chorus II. (I'll attach photos.) I did a pretty poor job of sanding because I was so afraid of burning through the veneer, so I started with 600 grit and moved to stronger grit. I now know to start at the stronger(going to use 150) and finish with 220 before I do 2-3 coats of Danish Oil and then wet sand on the final coat of Danish Oil with 600 grit. Hopefully, i get most of the black finish out of the oak grain, because I don't like that dark grain look. Fortunately, i have all working drivers on my pair including Ti diaphragms I've yet to install as I listen to the stock for a week, but I still have a few questions. 1) 1 of my passives was reglued, but still, has a tiny poked hole(and what looks like crayons? Kids? The reglue looks very obvious and ugly. Can this be fixed at all to look a little more professional or is it too late for that? (see attached photos) 2) One of my mid horns is missing 10 of the 12 screws. I went to Home Depot and had no luck finding anywhere near a close match to the original. Do yall have any recommendations on where I can get the closest match or even get the original? 3) The magnets on the cabinets for the grills really bug me the way they are all facing different directions. Is there a way to get them all neat and aligned? If not, can i just use a permanent marker to black them out so they don't stand out so much? 4) The front 15 inch driver seems fragile to touch so it scares me to do any cleaning. They're very dusty up close. Can I take a soft bristle duster attachment on my vacuum to it?

Won't match unfortunately.

He originally had the RC-7 at $250 days after I paid $300 for a really beat up cabinet(but I still felt it was a good deal..well as long as it was working like he said it would) that ended up having a blown woofer and spent another $167 for 2 new woofers because I couldn't find another original k-1083, + hours of sanding and trying to refinish. I had already accepted a partial refund for the blown woofer the moment I saw this RC-7 in Austin for $250. My RC-7 didn't come out too good, but it's passable. The newer woofers look beautiful on it. I wish I had the original woofers though, I would buy his RC-7 and RS-7's and use the 2 RC-7's as mains in a smaller room with those RS-7s as surrounds and wait to find another deal on another RC-7 for an RC-7 front 3 in a bedroom. I wonder how that would sound. Hmm.

Looks like it says k-23. Still, don't see any stamped serials anywhere though and it doesn't say serial anywhere on the tags which is odd or maybe I just can't see it. Oh well, still super stoked! Today was a good day.

Can anyone tell from the photo if the driver and passive are original?

I just opened up my Fortes to put in the ti Diaphragms in. I had done it before but I took them out to hear stock again and I previously never even bothered to look inside and so I took my flashlight and looked inside the cabinet and I found the tags glued to the inside! 1987! Now to see if they are matching serials but for that I want to look for a stamp on the cabinet. Very happy right now!

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LOL. The Houston market. I hate it.

I'll let you know Pat, I have seen your pair on here and on craigslist. Walnut? If so, that's my fave

Is that still a thing with newer LED TVs?

It's a 55in that's 48.5 lbs

Good to know! Next up! To sell the original K-1083-SV woofer for some funds and then see if I can get a hold of DeanG for his RC-7 crossover upgrade if he is still around anywhere.

Finally ready to give it a test but no idea where to place it. TV on top of it would be a big no-no I assume?

Maybe a stupid question, but my new woofers just arrived and as I'm excitedly installing I realize I can't get them going just yet as the terminals are too small for the new woofer. Please don't tell me my only option is to solder. I don't know how and I don't want to spend another penny on this speaker which has been a money pit for me ever since I got screwed with purchasing it from eBay with a blown woofer and having to sand and refinish the cabinet only to still have all the deep gouges show through. Tell me this is an easy fix I can do right now and not have to wait another week for something more to ship.

I ordered a matching pair because I didn't want two mismatching woofers with plans to put the functioning original K-1083 up on eBay to recoup some of my funds for the new woofers.

Just received a message in response to my same question. They said it is the lack of magnetic shielding that makes it so much lighter and that it is my only option to repairing the RC-7 and it should, in their opinion, work beautifully as they have compared and tested. I suppose my only option is to test them. They sure do look more aesthetically pleasing compared to the older darker cerametallic and black dust cap!

I had a blown driver in a Klipsch RC-7 center channel. So since it is old and rarely comes up for sale(there's 1 right now in horrible shape), I searched reconingspeakers.com for the original K-1083-SV woofer which linked me to newer, which again linked me to a newer which again linked me to the latest due to the others being obsolete. The other previous woofers all had notes regarding the comparison to the original K-1083 woofer saying that it was the same exact thing minus different dust cap. The newest had no notes but was still the latest link for the RC-7. I messaged them to make sure. They told me it's pretty much the same woofer still minus magnetic shielding, different dust cap and slightly different in color. It is the RF-82 II woofer. I just weighed my single original K-1083(though not very accurately) and it weighed 8lbs alone. The package I am waiting to arrive is in total 13lbs. So I saw that the magnet in the new one is much smaller. Doesn't that mean it is worse/cheaper? I've always assumed more magnet weight=better. Won't this big weight change totally effect the factory specs of the Klipsch RC-7 and for the worse?

Thanks for the heads up. Don't have the funds for La Scalas at this very moment, though. Maybe by next month and I'm also going to be up in Austin next month, so I'll have a decent drive to San Antonio or Dallas to find some LS if there are none in Austin at that time. I'm going to borrow my Dad's van just in case I find a pair so that I have the room.

Just to show you what I'm working with. The bottom and left side are both this bad. The top, back and right side are fine with just a few scuffs.

I don't even know what treating it means. This is all a first for me. When I did the kitchen cabinets, I just sanded like crazy and applied this Stain + Poly in 1 step called MinWax PolyShades and wiped it off after 15 min and let it dry. That was that. I was planning on doing the same with a Walnut Stain +Satin Poly 1 step can from MinWax. Not a good idea? Just lightly sand and I'll be fine? It doesn't need to look professional. It's going to be sitting inside a stand where you can only really see the front anyway. The only reason I was going to sand a lot was b/c it has tons of scratches and several that are deep.