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What am I looking for 37-620CS
#1

I have a 37-620CS that needs some veneer work, the top has long strip that has been pealed off and is badly chipped on the end.. So what type of wood am I looking as a replacement? My pic isn't so hot but short of the Gallery I couldn't a real good one.


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When my pals were reading comic books
I was down in the basement in my dad's
workshop. Perusing his Sam's Photofoacts
Vol 1-50 admiring the old set and trying to
figure out what all those squiggly meant.
Circa 1966
Now I think I've got!

Terry
#2

Just going from the pinkish tone of the splinters, probably mahogany. It would help to sand a small area and take another picture.

"I just might turn into smoke, but I feel fine"
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#3

Tnx Russ,
Here's a sanded strip I removed from the top. The cabinet is in the shed under some stuff, thinking of working on it in the fall and want to get the veneer before I start on it. Now I just have to find the chassis and spkr  [Image: http://philcoradio.com/phorum/images/smi...on_lol.gif]


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When my pals were reading comic books
I was down in the basement in my dad's
workshop. Perusing his Sam's Photofoacts
Vol 1-50 admiring the old set and trying to
figure out what all those squiggly meant.
Circa 1966
Now I think I've got!

Terry
#4

It doesn't look like you sanded enough to get through to the real color. But I am still going with mahogany. Even if it is walnut you can tint the mahogany to match. It does have more "figure" than a lot of the mahogany veneers sold today.

"I just might turn into smoke, but I feel fine"
http://www.russoldradios.com/
#5

The Grebe that I worked on looked a lot like walnut until I got further down into the veneer.  I did a bunch of looking around on the web and decided it was a form of mahogany from Cuba, which was very much used here until the 1940's.  The grain is quite different from the typical mahogany we now get - closer to walnut.  I know next to nothing about wood and veneers, but that's the conclusion I came to.  Could be yours is the same.
#6

Yes that is what I am thinking.

You can get figured mahogany.

"I just might turn into smoke, but I feel fine"
http://www.russoldradios.com/
#7

Probably French walnut, unless these are radically different from other late 1930s Philco cabinets, plain cut would be my guess.
Regards
Arran
#8

That could be too.

In reality, it is not going to be the color you want in the end. Either (any choice) is going to have to have toner on it. As long as the grain look right, you can make it work.

"I just might turn into smoke, but I feel fine"
http://www.russoldradios.com/
#9

There is a moratorium on the import of Cuban mahogany, there has been for decades, and it's due to it being overlogged, not because of the political situation in Cuba, so it would be near impossible to find real Cuban mahogany veneer, and even if you did you would not like the price. It's a bit misleading calling it Cuban mahogany because the trees were found throughout the Caribbean, it's probably a name some marketeers came up with and it stuck.
  I'm pretty sure that the veneer used was French walnut as that seems to have been the species of choice on the majority of 1930s radio cabinets, including Philcos, with more exotic species used for highlights in bands and inlays. It is also a brownish red colour, but unlike Cuban mahogany it is readily available, though not as available as American black walnut.
Regards
Arran




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