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Thank you for your opinion.. I am the same way. I really am a purist, and hate to see ANY antique finish removed.

In this case, I'm not real sure what to do.. a lot of the areas of the faux finish have chipped off and the under-laying wood is showing. I'm sure I could probably spend a lot of time touching it up. I will post pictures in thos thread tomorrow. I'll also get a lot of close-up shots.. I know I could dissolve some of the finish and spread it around, but that isn't going to fis the faux areas..

I can live with crazing, and this has a lot. I know a lot of that is fixable with Howard's Restore-a-Finish, however, there is a lot of the Faux finish chipped off and missing.

On the top, there is maybe 4 or 5 rings? I thought about maybe just redoing that, but then that would look good, and the rest kinda weak.

Along the bottom of the base, it looks like there may have been some moisture, or water, and the finish is completely missing. It is bare wood...

I can deal with some scrapes, missing finish, etc, but over all, I would give this case a 4 as far as finish.. some might give it a 6.. .but I would much rather buy an 8 or 9.. but I didn't.. the chassis and the wavemagnite were easy 9's... just need to fix the rubber and cloth rot on the wires.. which is easy compaired to the finish... the grill cloth is a 10...

I really am scratching my head as what to do in this case...