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Philco 623 cabinet restoration
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One habit that I got into to make a can of tone spray go further was to dye the wood underneath. I had, or still have, a jar of dark brown fabric dye that I would heat up and paint on the bland parts of a cabinet that I was going to tone spray dark. It takes a lot less toner to go from brown to a darker brown then from white to a darker brown. The only problem is that you have to pretty well strip all traces of finish off down to bare wood so it can penetrate.
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Arran


P.S In looking closely at the pictures of this 623 and the 620 cabinets in the gallery I can see clearly how much damage someone did to the front molding on my cabinet with that disk sander. I don't know if anyone has ever attempted to reproduce the front molding for a 1936 Philco tombstone but my set could definitely use replacements of some sort, even used ones from a waterlogged cabinet.


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Philco 623 cabinet restoration - by Bob Andersen - 10-26-2012, 12:54 PM
RE: Philco 623 cabinet restoration - by Arran - 10-26-2012, 10:37 PM
RE: Philco 623 cabinet restoration - by TA Forbes - 10-26-2012, 11:21 PM
RE: Philco 623 cabinet restoration - by Arran - 10-31-2012, 06:29 PM
RE: Philco 623 cabinet restoration - by Arran - 11-02-2012, 06:57 PM
RE: Philco 623 cabinet restoration - by Arran - 11-03-2012, 12:03 AM



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