[jshorva65]

Hello all!

I've been extremely busy lately. Had a hectic Holiday season, working on several customer-requested restorations, still developing and producing reproduction parts, attempting to find time for some refresher business management classes, seeking some help from local Community Development agencies in getting loans for financing some big projects (my guitar and hi-fi amp lines, and the vintage tv replicas I've been asked to develop by a few friends in the furniture business). To get a jump on the project and get my design skills back into practice, I've been attempting to create drawings similar to the ones John Vassos must have created when he designed the 621TS. Eventually, I want to build replicas of several pre-war and a few post-war sets. The project is in its infancy at the moment, but I've managed to reconstruct some of the basic geometry of the 6211TS cabinet based on its relationship to the space that its chassis and picture tube occupied. Here's a preliminary sketch generated from the complex 3D vector model I'm creating. It's nowhere near finished, but gives some indication of what I'm attempting to do.