I had my vintage Jensen Leslie 15" 16 ohm speaker rewound by Paul.
He did a good job getting back the original sound. When I brought the speaker to him, he tested it and found out it was wound for under 10 ohms. Far off from what it should be. He also noticed after opening up the speaker that the coil was 1 1/2 inches wide where it should have been 2 inches based on the original bobbin, to achieve the 16 ohm reading. Paul made a new voice coil from scratch using new copper sheet and gauge 32 copper wire.
It was reconed over 20 years ago here but not to it's original 16 ohms and the former reconer put a rubber surround. Made tipid on the copper needed to rewind the voice coil. Great for him bad for me and more importantly, the sound. The original cone is long gone but because destroying the original cone was/is the way it's done, it was lost to bad technology, before Paul and his son Benedict came around.
Paul replaced the surround with a pleated cloth type. He kept the old paper recone and made a new voice coil, used the old spider.
I'm happy with the performance so far. The Leslie came back to life and the organ sounds like it should. Has the right break up and tightness and since it's the right impedance it makes the horn sound better. Leslie sound is all about Lo-fi so it was a match.
You should know though that foam or rubber surrounds are not musical instrument surrounds. They are for stereo speakers.
Paul is a second gen recone specialist, having learned from his father.
He also does many car audio speaker recones on branded speakers like Infinity, Rockford-Fosgate, Kicker, Xplode.
If you guys are in need of a recone, try and save your original cone and surround if you've blown the voice coil. It will help in the repair plus retain most of the originality of your vintage speakers.
At least we now have someone who can repair a good speaker and is knowledgeable as to what is needed. After our guitar, effects and amp. the speaker is the last defining moment. Make sure it's right!