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type of veneer?
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Hello and welcome!

The original veneer was walnut.

The front panel photofinish can be replicated. It would be a bit of work, but would look much better than a plain face.

Stewart Schooley has a method of replicating photofinish. You can read about it here:

http://www.philcoradio.com/schooley/index.htm

And someone redid a 37-610B over on the Antique Radio Forum not too long ago...he did a really good job:

http://antiqueradios.com/forums/viewtopi...&highlight=

I especially recommend you read pages 2 through 5 of this thread carefully.

I disagree with the use of gold paint - he should have used a light brown instead, a lighter color than the medium walnut brown in the front panel - but otherwise, it turned out extremely well.

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Ron Ramirez
Ferdinand IN


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type of veneer? - by flymobro - 09-15-2010, 06:04 AM
Re: type of veneer? - by Ron Ramirez - 09-15-2010, 11:20 AM
Re: type of veneer? - by flymobro - 09-15-2010, 06:08 PM



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