01-05-2025, 09:14 PM
The last thing i did gents before I parked this radio for my REAL project, was bolt a piece of angle aluminum to the back, and screw on a real steel car antenna.
The real project I am practicing cutting with accuracy on is a period correct 1964 replication of something somebody reading "Junk the car save the radio" article would have built with some crap.
I am making a mini consolete radio with a discarded 40s table cabinet, a 1949 Buick Delco Sonomatic radio, old grill cloth, old switches, and very little "new" parts and zero millennial buffoon "upgrades". That if you saw it, you'd never think it was built today but sat somewhere from some guys home diy toy from the early 60s made from used stuff from twenty years before.
It means a lot to me and I'm drawing dozens of drawings of the front faceplate and trying to settle on a speaker hole design I don't hate, but it's not really Philco related so I didn't want to talk about it much. I do have some drawings but this doesn't belong here.
The real project I am practicing cutting with accuracy on is a period correct 1964 replication of something somebody reading "Junk the car save the radio" article would have built with some crap.
I am making a mini consolete radio with a discarded 40s table cabinet, a 1949 Buick Delco Sonomatic radio, old grill cloth, old switches, and very little "new" parts and zero millennial buffoon "upgrades". That if you saw it, you'd never think it was built today but sat somewhere from some guys home diy toy from the early 60s made from used stuff from twenty years before.
It means a lot to me and I'm drawing dozens of drawings of the front faceplate and trying to settle on a speaker hole design I don't hate, but it's not really Philco related so I didn't want to talk about it much. I do have some drawings but this doesn't belong here.
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