Repair for speaker cabinet

Yeah good insight! I have the R3 which have a black lacquer finish. I talked to KEF and they suggested a carpenter but I am in the midst of contacting a cabinet maker company as they seem to be the best option so far.

KEF was helpful in that they gave me the color code for the correct paint to use to finish the project.

thanks for your help! 🙏🏽 I am not sure how to post pics here as it is not very user friendly.  Otherwise I would have posted it along with request for help.

The nature of the repair and who would be best to do the repair depend on the nature of the damage, the material the speaker is made of and the type of finish.  Without a picture it is tough to say but you may want to look for a guitar repair shop if it is just finish damage.  I would expect guitar repair shops to be more common than piano repair.  Fixing a finish defect is probably more like repair of a guitar finish than fixing a cabinet or furniture, unless the speaker is MDF and there is damage to the underlying substrate.  A picture would be really helpful if you can figure it out.

To get some ideas you can go watch a few videos at Stewart McDonald such as

Fixing a small chip in your guitar's finish - StewMac

I purchased this center channel speaker stand on craigslist once for $20 got it home and realized it was too short. Found a metal working guy who happened to have a shed behind his house. I was thinking what $50 maybe $80. When he had finished, which wasn’t that bad of a job he said $220 please. I choked inside. I kept a straight face and paid him. And truth be told if I needed to have work done again I would’ve called him. The moral of this story is Having people work on your stuff can get really expensive. Choose wisely grasshopper. Once again, so sorry to hear about your so unfortunate experience. What a bummer.  For the curious of us, what happened?

So what happened was I work from home and my audio setup is in my office. I was busy in a meeting and my daughters cat came in and decided to try and use the R3 as a perch and must have jumped to hard on it or landed awkward and it went flying. To my shock and horror I heard band and then the cat flying out of the room and speaker laying on floor. They were on stands but not the KEF stands that allow bolting to keep it steady. I went therapy shopping and ended up getting KEF R11’s that are floor standing. I think I found a furniture repair guy to fix the R3 so I may keep them for another room/setup.

Love and let live I guess 😂 

@rayray57  Posting a  picture is quite easy once you get the hang.

1.  Copy your picture to imgpile.com

2.  On imgpile, "copy link address"

3. Click on the picture icon above and paste the address in the URL line.

Presto.  Just like this.