[Electrothaumaturgist]

Hey, Art- That's a Phine looking Philco!!! Is that the original grille cloth? the lighting makes it look like a '37 pattern. Doesn't seem to be a whole lot of info on the 38-1 out there. How does yours perform? This baby plays solid and strong for hours on end with absolutely no surprises. Comes on every time at 15 seconds without fail, running on a 1 amp panel mount fuse. And I know what you mean about the wavy grain, as mine shone through with a lot of elbow grease and a crude re-do of the top. This is as good as it's going to get for the moment, but carries its' own weight in eye appeal (I am giving this thing to my brother, and it may hang around long enough for me to revisit and properly restore the cabinet and some iffy electrical items that are bothersome to me-probably to no one else- if my financial situation improves). 
And thanks Arran for the info/advise, but I carefully weighed all of the options available to me and realized that the cabinet needed a complete strip down and refinish to begin with, in which case it didn't matter what I did to it; neither good nor bad. The cabinet is very presentable as is. It'll be perfectly swell. For the moment.    Perhaps if I sink another $200-$300 into it, I could get my asking price of $159.50 out of it...