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Custom 1936 model 645
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Jeff W.
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07-08-2020, 05:24 PM
Last year, a local friend was cleaning out their garage, and gave me a couple chassis. One is a 645 rescued from a crumbling 645 console.
I have no need for more consoles.  Icon_crazy
So I thought it might be a fun challenge to come up with and build my own tabletop tombstone. I like the shouldered tombstones.
I also like the grille cutout of the 650L.
So I cobbled these together in Photoshop.
Which do you all like best?
I recently saw a non Philco table top with the speaker on the bottom, and thought it was interesting. Hence the different design.
If I do move forward, it would drive some purists crazy, and possibly some historian crazy in 50 years.  Icon_lol

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Jeff W.
Jonesboro, Arkansas

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07-08-2020, 06:44 PM
Harp on top.
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07-08-2020, 08:04 PM
From a practical point radio on the bottom speaker on top makes more sense. Easier to tune and see dial when it's placed on a table. But I think I like it the other way around (I'm lisdexsic).
When my pals were reading comic books
I was down in the basement in my dad's
workshop. Perusing his Sam's Photofoacts
Vol 1-50 admiring the old set and trying to
figure out what all those squiggly meant.
Circa 1966
Now I think I've got!

Terry
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07-09-2020, 08:33 AM
Thought you were Italian. Icon_lol
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07-09-2020, 03:04 PM
Speaker on top looks more appropriate to me.
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