Sylvania 1-076 arrived!

[jeyurkon]

I picked up cabinet from my parent's 1-128 Sylvania over Thanksgiving. It survived the trailer ride well.



The console is supposed to look like this:



Here's the outside front:



The finish isn't too bad. Where it's thin it has a more reddish color.



My dad had converted it into a cedar chest to store linens.





Restoring it to use the 1-108 chassis that I have that is common to the 1-076 10" and 1-128 12" consoles shouldn't be too difficult.

I had ordered some NOPP film from a US company, but the actual shipment came from Jakarta and was boxed in some fairly high grade luan/mahogany plywood. I'll see if that works for the panel. I also need to pick up some small pieces of solid mahogany.

The biggest problem is that he cut slots in the trim for the cedar.



Since the finish is so dark, I may be able to just fill it and stain it. The recent thread on molding trims/molding will be helpful here.

If you were really observant you'll have noticed that there were supposed to be rosettes at the upper corners which don't appear on my cabinet. I vaguely remember them being there, but there are no signs of them being removed. I think they would have been attached rather than milled into the boards. The rosettes are raised and it would have required milling much wood away. They may have even been metal like the pulls.

The style of this cabinet is Hepplewhite, or so claims Sylvania.

I'm getting closer to getting my childhood set finished. I may convert the 1-076 cabinet into a cedar chest using the cedar from this cabinet after I'm done. I'll never be able to find parts to make a complete 1-076 or 1-128 without gutting one of them. Fortunately, beside the cabinet the only things that are different between the two are the CRT, band to clamp the CRT, and the bezel.

John

[ohohyodafarted]

You are doing an awsome job John. When this is finished you will accomplished something very wonderful, especially considering the obsticles that have been in your way.

This is the first I have seen the postings about the mold you had made. What a spectacular piece of machining. Must have taken a lot of work to polish that to such a beautiful mirror finish.

If you look around at some of the woodworking web sites, I think you may be able to find wooden rosettes that might approximate the ones that are missing. Just google wooden rosettes. The first hit I got can make 13,000 different historic designs.

Bob