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Originally Posted by DavGoodlin
There is a producer of bezels (old time reproductions? in CA) for Philco radios that sells through Radiodaze. Maybe they would comission one.
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Larry Bordanaro has been very ill and it is uncertain if he will continue making reproductions. Ed (blacksmith) at Renovated Radios has done some bezels but both these guys need fairly good originals to start with since they do exact copies. They can create successive master to straighten and shape a bad original, but the worse it is, the longer and more tedious this becomes.
Ed has investigated 3D printers but none of them give a good surface finish so the entire part would need to be sanded and polished (if the material is hard enough to accept a polish) and if it is intricate this can be difficult if not impossible. CNC can't make these swirled plastic parts unless you can find some swirled plastic material to start with. A CNC part could be used by Ed or Larry to then make a mold to cast parts, but even a CNC part takes considerable amount of sanding and polishing to create the mirror finish.