[Ron Ramirez]

Now I am working against the weather. The temps are supposed to be significantly cooler towards the end of the workweek, and it is supposed to rain Wednesday and Thursday, so I only had tonight and tomorrow night to work.

So here we go...

First, I carefully masked off the areas that would not get painted.

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After three coats of Mohawk black gloss lacquer:

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I waited a while, then carefully removed the paper and low-tack green tape:

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The black bled through the tape in a few spots; I was able to carefully scrape most of the bleed-through off with a fingernail, though. I think it is going to be OK. The cabinet is not perfect, after all.

And along those lines, I noticed tonight that I did not get the grain fully filled. Oh well! My plan is to give it a few coats of clear lacquer tomorrow, and then that will be all until I have some decals special made. I don't like the font of Radio Daze's Philco Tropic decals.

Okay, so I'm picky. Pardon me.

At least now the cabinet is starting to look more or less as it did originally.