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Restoration complete 91b cathedral - Fred Taylor - 04-03-2015

Refinished cabinet , new dial and grill cloth , recapped and tuned, plays very nice. Just noticed my speaker needs rotate 15 degrees clockwise , oops!

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RE: Restoration complete 91b cathedral - morzh - 04-03-2015

Holy crap, man, this is one friggin masterpiece!
Really.
You sure it is not an NIB radio you found somewhere and now pulling our legs?

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RE: Restoration complete 91b cathedral - Fred Taylor - 04-03-2015

(04-03-2015, 05:57 PM)morzh Wrote:  Holy crap, man, this is one friggin masterpiece!
Really.
You sure it is not an NIB radio you found somewhere and now pulling our legs?

What is NIB mean? im not pulling nothing, this is the type of work I do on my radios or someone else's radio look at the before pictures from two weeks ago on this site, i'll post it here.  

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RE: Restoration complete 91b cathedral - KCMike - 04-03-2015

Another great job!! It could pose as new in box.

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RE: Restoration complete 91b cathedral - morzh - 04-03-2015

NIB is New In Box.
NOS is New Old Stock.

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RE: Restoration complete 91b cathedral - Ron Ramirez - 04-03-2015

The cabinet itself is beautiful, but I have to give you a thumb down on the PHILCO decal which looks nothing like the original. You should have used the Radio Daze PH8.

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RE: Restoration complete 91b cathedral - Radioroslyn - 04-03-2015

The 91 is a great player too. Have had a few over the years and never met one I didn't like! Your is quite spectacular!!!
Terry

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RE: Restoration complete 91b cathedral - Fred Taylor - 04-03-2015

(04-03-2015, 07:51 PM)Ron Ramirez Wrote:  The cabinet itself is beautiful, but I have to give you a thumb down on the PHILCO decal which looks nothing like the original. You should have used the Radio Daze PH8.

The place I use to work at would say. Now that's a beautiful job you did, now do it over Most people would never notice that until you said something, I don't know what to do now, I feel a headache coming on,  im going to lay down for a while. It wont happen again I promise. Don't yell at me ive got feelings.

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RE: Restoration complete 91b cathedral - morzh - 04-03-2015

Is the decal under lacquer or over?

I think Kirk did the same to my 66, but he was able to quickly correct it (not sure what and how he did).

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RE: Restoration complete 91b cathedral - Fred Taylor - 04-03-2015

(04-03-2015, 08:22 PM)morzh Wrote:  Is the decal under lacquer or over?

I think Kirk did the same to my 66, but he was able to quickly correct it (not sure what and how he did).

under

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RE: Restoration complete 91b cathedral - morzh - 04-03-2015

Well...it looks good.
Just make sure you do not show this thread to whoever you are gonna be wowing with this radio

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RE: Restoration complete 91b cathedral - Fred Taylor - 04-03-2015

(04-03-2015, 08:43 PM)morzh Wrote:  Well...it looks good.
Just make sure you do not show this thread to whoever you are gonna be wowing with this radio

I probably screwed up the 116b also 

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RE: Restoration complete 91b cathedral - Ron Ramirez - 04-04-2015

Fred, I'm not being critical. Really. But if you post something and seek the opinions of others, if it isn't authentic, I will point it out. Not to be "better" than anyone because I certainly am not, nor would I ever want to give that impression. To me, it's about the authenticity. I think we owe it to future generations to try to get our restorations "right" as much as possible. No, we can't always achieve that goal, but we can try. And there is no doubt that your work with cabinets and lacquer is among the best I have seen. You're certainly a heck of a lot better with a cabinet than I am, for certain.

I tried to tell Radio Daze for years that their Philco decals were the wrong fonts. It took an email campaign of other Phorum members to finally convince them to make them correct.

http://philcoradio.com/phorum/showthread.php?tid=104&highlight=Philco+Decals
http://philcoradio.com/phorum/showthread.php?tid=827&highlight=Philco+Decals
http://philcoradio.com/phorum/showthread.php?tid=4934&highlight=Philco+Decals

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RE: Restoration complete 91b cathedral - Fred Taylor - 04-04-2015

(04-04-2015, 12:25 AM)Ron Ramirez Wrote:  Fred, I'm not being critical. Really. But if you post something and seek the opinions of others, if it isn't authentic, I will point it out. Not to be "better" than anyone because I certainly am not, nor would I ever want to give that impression. To me, it's about the authenticity. I think we owe it to future generations to try to get our restorations "right" as much as possible. No, we can't always achieve that goal, but we can try. And there is no doubt that your work with cabinets and lacquer is among the best I have seen. You're certainly a heck of a lot better with a cabinet than I am, for certain.

I tried to tell Radio Daze for years that their Philco decals were the wrong fonts. It took an email campaign of other Phorum members to finally convince them to make them correct.

http://philcoradio.com/phorum/showthread.php?tid=104&highlight=Philco+Decals
http://philcoradio.com/phorum/showthread.php?tid=827&highlight=Philco+Decals
http://philcoradio.com/phorum/showthread.php?tid=4934&highlight=Philco+Decals

Thanks Ron for everything you do for us here, I was just kidding around on my decal headache. Most of us would never know something is not right unless a senior tells us other wise. That is how we learn. I call it constructive criticism.   We all have to swallow it as we grow.

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RE: Restoration complete 91b cathedral - PhilcoJohn - 04-04-2015

Fred thumbs up man!

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