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Originally Posted by wiseguy
well,the cabinet is not as good as i wanted..i picked up the set in the dark and examined it in the garage this morning in day light,the top has a lot of marks and a tad of peeling
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If it is not something you can do a simple sanding and restaining/revarnishing on, another option is to sand it down, fill in any deep ruts, and recover it with new unstained 'stick-on' veneer (available in real wood, mahogany, oak etc etc.) Then you just trim it very close to the edges of the cabinet, then use an electric vibrating sander to bevel the edges up to the existing edge of the cabinet.
Stain and varnish it and bingo it's fixed. Have done this on a top and a side of two Victrolas and it came out fantastic and I absolutely HATE carpentry and woodworking, but this is a cinch. And would never know it was done it looks so good. I will have to do this to the rotten top on my CTC-10 once I am done with the electronics end of it.
Crappy cabinet veneer no longer scares me away from purchasing otherwise good items such as tvs and victrolas.
Frenchy