Hello friends, many of you have asked me to show some of my work in progress. So today I will be showing what I have been working on for the past two weeks.
This is a Victrola and from what I have found stamped on various parts it was the 168th unit made in May 1933.
As you can see by the previous and the next few pictures it came to me in pretty bad shape.
The doors won't close
The mechanism that actually turns the record wasn't working. I took it apart found the problem and fixed it. Now it works and can play records once again.
This is actually the volume control. Push the rod in for full volume or pull it out to turn the volume down. This is simplicity at it's finest. Everything about this is just plain simplicity.
I so enjoy working on antiques because to me it's a window in time. I can virtually see into the inventor's mind just by studying his inventions.
Believe it or not but it takes straight forward genius to come up with such simple yet effective design.
The hole that the rod threads into was stripped. So by glueing a dowl in it I was able to drill it out and thread the metal rod back in so it now works like new.
Glueing the loose veneer back in place.
I do my best to keep the origanal veneer. I only use new veneer when the old is beyond repairing.
The lid was so warped (even more than myself) that I had no choice but to make a new one. I lucked out and was able to recover the veneer from the original lid (well the top veneer anyhow). So I glued the old veneer onto the new lid.
The new molding pieces for the new lid.
Now to show the finished pictures. It is completely reassembled and ready to ship.
All pictures are 100% mine taken with my S6 smartass phone.
Hope you enjoyed some of my work. Thanks for taking the time to take another look into this dog's world.
WOOF IT AND STEEM ON
