Antique Radio Lacquer

Radios had lacquer finishes except for a few mostly in the 20s that had shellac finishes so lacquer is the finish to use. Evaporative finishes such as lacquer where the new finish dissolves and mixes with the film of the original finish.

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Right now I make about 50K a year for the work I put.

Antique radio lacquer. It is a combination radiophonograph. In this article I focus on the restoration of the wooden radio cabinet. You see I repaired stripped grain filled and prepped the thing for lacquer over two years ago and have using it in a partially assembled state ever since.

Usually radio models from the early 20s on used multiple colors on cabinets to make them more interesting. Usually made of wood veneers---which are simply thin slices of real wood laid over cheaper or less attractive wood---antique radio cabinets are a graceful. One for the 49 meter section from 55 - 75 MC.

Many radios came with colored lacquer when new. I like working with lacquer because it gives me lots of. Tombstone territory This is the story of 2 antique tombstone table model radios from 2 different owners.

The hard part about refinishing a wood radio so that it has an original type of finish is wading through the many choices in the paint store. Then one for the 31-25 meter band from 90 -. Old radio cabinets are evocative reminders of a simpler age when master storytellers did the first half of the work and your imagination supplied the rest.

The vast majority of wooden radio cabinets were finished with lacquer. The radio has a couple issues I was unable to resolve even with advice from fellow members of the Antique Radio Forum. It was a lot of fun but also intimedating.

ADMIRAL 6C71 FROM 1946. Those bogus finishes will not look right and polyurethane is nearly impossible to redo if you make a mistake. To restore your radios original appearance you should refinish it with lacquer.

Then several more coats of lacquer were applied and the final finish hand rubbed to a satin luster. If the old finish is polyurethane be sure to rough up the. I offer Bluetooth MP3 upgrade if the customer wants to play digital music.

That is buy an untouched radio in as perfect condition as possible. A wreck of a cabinet is restored to a high standard in this video. Stainingspraying your radio one color will look pretty flat and boring.

After building up the preamp for my Crosley 86CR I decided that it was time to finish that radio completely. Dont use varnishes polyurathanes tung oil or Danish oil finishes. The simplest way to accomplish this is to do nothing.

Radio collectors are no different. Last edited by Gold Dial on Nov Mon 09 2020 229 am edited 1 time in total. Some radio cabinets were shaded all over others were shaded only on trim pieces or the sides.

As you can see it has 4 bands across the dial face. The older andor more rare a radio is the more important it is to maintain it in original condition. This is a 1938 Zenith 6S229 Big Black Dial Tombstone radio with 6 tubes and a faux finish on the cabinet.

A restored radio is a beautiful component of a retro style room. You can do it yourself. Choose your staintoner colors accordingly.

My name is Allen Chiang and I founded Retro Radio Farm where I repair and restore old radios. The radio was not born during the Art Deco era but thats definitely when it came of ageDuring that period two important events happened. Some of those radios obviously have too thick of a coat of lacquer but even the radios with thinner coats seem to be cracking at the seams even when the wood doesnt move noticeably.

This is an instruction video showing the simple proper method of replacing missing or dirty paint in the grooves along the edge of vintage radio knobs by usi. Retro Radio Farm is side business that grew out of a recent hobby of mine. This is an Admiral model 6C71 from 1946.

An acrylic lacquer will not yellow and will be water clear with no color cast. There are a lot of articles on the Internet about repairing and restoration of vintage radios but most of them concern repairing electronics. When applying a colored coat my goal is to duplicate the original color scheme.

I have a busy career as an IT professional. The rectangular model on the left is a Silvertone that was in generally very good condition but with the finish old and tired so only a. This is something that is virtually impossible to recreate so I didnt mess with the cabinet.

This is printed paper that is placed over the wood and lacquered. Just as collectors of vintage cars insist on original or at least reproduction parts. These include one for standard broadcast.

After replacing all the paper caps and electrolytic caps checking the value of each resistor and replacing bad tubes including the EM34 Magic Eye tube I could not get the radio to perform correctly on FM. A special type of lacquer called padding lacquer is often used to touch up existing lacquer finishes often found on radios. Avoid non-authentic finishes such as polyurethane varnish tung oil etc.

The first was the advent of regular radio programming on new radio networks across the United States beginning in 1920 at WWJ in Detroit whose first broadcast consisted of the songs Roses of Picardy and Annie Laurie played on an Edison.

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