12-07-2025, 08:38 PM
Joseph;
It looks like wood dye and Mohawk tone spray are going to be your friends with this one. I'm beginning to think that those spots were caused by battery acid, or some sort of chemical with metal oxide in it. Too bad that you couldn't harvest the bullnose molding from above the speaker grill on your junk cabinet, but you could probably make one if you wanted to. I have to do something similar with the shoulders on a Packard Bell 771 cabinet I have in the basement somewhere, both shoulders were badly cracked, on the diagonal. I'm not even sure what species of wood they used, it looks somewhat like mahogany but with a much lighter grain, the finish on it was very close to your Philco, like a medium dark, to dark walnut. Unlike your Philco I don't have a junk cabinet to harvest pieces from, I will have to make them, and past experience tells me that it will not be easy to get newly made pieces to fit the joints on an old cabinet.
Regards
Arran
It looks like wood dye and Mohawk tone spray are going to be your friends with this one. I'm beginning to think that those spots were caused by battery acid, or some sort of chemical with metal oxide in it. Too bad that you couldn't harvest the bullnose molding from above the speaker grill on your junk cabinet, but you could probably make one if you wanted to. I have to do something similar with the shoulders on a Packard Bell 771 cabinet I have in the basement somewhere, both shoulders were badly cracked, on the diagonal. I'm not even sure what species of wood they used, it looks somewhat like mahogany but with a much lighter grain, the finish on it was very close to your Philco, like a medium dark, to dark walnut. Unlike your Philco I don't have a junk cabinet to harvest pieces from, I will have to make them, and past experience tells me that it will not be easy to get newly made pieces to fit the joints on an old cabinet.
Regards
Arran
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