04-14-2011, 10:25 AM
Great looking radio.
From the photo, the Philco decal looks to be legit, so that kind of points away from an amateur strip and stain job, but if someone did that with stain or varnish stain (a dreadful product from the past,) then replaced the decal, and then put more varnish on top, that's one way it could get in this state.
In any case, once you get everything stripped off and scrubbed out, I reckon you could use a light color grain filler and the correct tones of spray laquer to get this back to specs.
From the photo, the Philco decal looks to be legit, so that kind of points away from an amateur strip and stain job, but if someone did that with stain or varnish stain (a dreadful product from the past,) then replaced the decal, and then put more varnish on top, that's one way it could get in this state.
In any case, once you get everything stripped off and scrubbed out, I reckon you could use a light color grain filler and the correct tones of spray laquer to get this back to specs.
