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Nathan's Philco 201X Cabinet - Seeking Advice
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Alright guys, thanks to all of your advice I have wrapped up the cabinet restoration of the 201X!

Electrical restoration was straight-forward though alignment was not trivial (similar to the later high-fidelity sets).

So this this afternoon I brought everything into the 'Radio Room' and put it back together.

[Image: https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/4856...20ff_c.jpg]

[Image: https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/4856...e0ca_c.jpg]

[Image: https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/4856...7df7_c.jpg]

Overall I'm really happy with how the top turned out - especially the color of the top. For that I used 2x light coats of Medium Brown walnut ultraclassic, followed by a light coat of Prefect Brown ultraclassic. The color matches the rest of the cabinet really closely and the water stain is no longer obvious.

[Image: https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/4856...a122_c.jpg]

On the other hand you can see that I went too dark with the trim. It came out a very dark brown - which I think still looks OK but isn't a perfect match. I applied multiple coats of Van Dyke tone finish toner for the trim but I probably should've made it Perfect Brown. I ended up applying more than I wanted in order to get it to come out even.

Anyway, I've been enjoying listening to it this afternoon. It's a great sounding set and I happen to LOVE the style of the cabinet (I know Kirk disagrees about this).  Icon_lol


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RE: Nathan's Philco 201X Cabinet - Seeking Advice - by Nathan Slingerland - 08-17-2019, 07:26 PM



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