Entryways into the pix tube and speaker are now painted with 2 coats of high gloss black oil based paint. Now off to the hardware store to buy grain filler, then the fabric store to find a suitable replacement for the old grille cloth. Also, I have settled on painting a gold stripe around the cabinet where there's currently a beveled edge. I was going to try and apply veneer there, but it's far too small an area and I anticipated great difficulty. It would have involved 6 strips of 1/8" veneer, applied in 2 sections. I think the gold paint will look just as good, RCA often painted gold stripes onto their cabinets as accents.
