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Braint when you get a chance you can take on this radio and bring it back to it's original look, you may pick up some old cheapie wood table models off ebay and get your feet wet by following advice from people on this site. If you click on my link you will see some radios that I have refinished, look at the Truetone that is painted red and at the after pictures, I am to the sanding laquer stage but you can see how dramatic the improvement is. Also by using these type of radios as your learning radios you find things or steps that you might be doing incorrectly so that next time you don't do the same mistake twice. On my 38-2 cabinet I researched as best I could and looked at pictures of 38-2 and some line drawings and tried to make the most correct decisions that I could. It may not be 100% correct but I did pattern it after some documentation that I found and it looks like some models of that era. When you work with these low dollar tables you are also saving a nice old radio and learning in the process. I picked the truetones up for under 20 each, and they help me not only in the cabinet restoration but also in the chassis restoration. By the way, Mr. Houston has some extremely nice radios, and some extremely rare ones so for him to see a nice old radio done incorrectly I am sure it leaves a bitter taste.