Here's my latest acquisition. It cost me $60 and some bribing of my brother to pick it up. Of course it will need some work.
Don't you just love that red grill cloth.
Are these good choices for reproduction replacements?
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Radio-Grill-Clot...460445e069
And here for a reproduction for the front face?
http://www.vintageradiolabels.com/refaux-pro.html
The dial needs a little something too. I am not sure if it counts as cabinet or electronic restoration.
More pics to come once I start to do some restortion work.
Restoring the photo finish only has a few options I'm aware of:
1) the refaux-pro you mention. Folks have commented on it in other Phorum threads, some liked it some didn't. I think that vendor is the only one making the product commercially.
2) redo the front in veneer with in-layed wood; ie. reproduce the photofinish with real wood (that take a lot more skill than I have but I've seen folks on the Phorum who have done so with remarkable results.)
3) try to touch up the existing photo finish with touch up paints. Bob Andersen did a video (that I can't find at the moment) where he used a touch up kit to make a photo finish look quite good.
Phlogiston does it by making the veener look like burl or some other pattern using lacquers and brushes.
4) get a good image scan of the front of a 38-10T; print it on paper and then apply your own paper finish to the front using the techniques from
Stewart Schooley found on this phorum. There are some threads in the Phorum on this as well and I used the technique for some vertical wood grain pattern on a Montgomery Ward console.
![[Image: Wards_photofinish.jpg]](https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/54621529/Wards_photofinish.jpg)
![[Image: Wards_photofinish3.jpg]](https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/54621529/Wards_photofinish3.jpg)
Another source for the ribbed grille cloth is
RadioDaze. They have several sizes. I've used this in my 39-25 and I think it looks good.
![[Image: 39-25_restored_3.jpg]](https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/54621529/39-25_restored_3.jpg)
Mark Oppat appears to be sold out of 38-10T dials but you could contact him anyway just to check.
RadioDaze has a repro as well and there's a
tuning assembly on the bay that I believe has a dial that would match.
Yes I saw that dial with tuner cap on Ebay and was tempted. I thought I would wait for suggestions first.
On that grille cloth, is the Radio Daze pattern correct or the Ebay #7 pattern better. They look a little different.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Radio-Grill-Clot...460445e069
Suggestions appreciated.
I'd get grille cloth with a little more pizzaz than the Ebay example!