Edison C-250 Fixed Up

[Jwb88]

Finally posting these. I've always wanted a nice C-250 and I finally got one from Mike Sorter's garage. Just took a little work.
this is a fairly early one so I'm still piecing it together to what I think it had originally. How I received it was with a mechanism from the late teens in it with the automatic electric stop, which is cool, but I think it would have originally had the bedplate with decals, etc. It's working fine and it's the reason I bought so many diamond discs yesterday.

Someone drilled a hole in the back of it and while I probably should have re-veneered the whole panel, two things: 1) this is a long-term keeper for myself and so I'm the only one I have to please and 2) IT'S THE BACK so...I filled the hole and patched it with a little circle of mahogany. I'm fine with it.

I went through some work JB welding a mute ball assembly together only to find out that it sounds so much better without it that I think I'm going to remove it again. A little loud, but other than that it's great!

BEFORE:

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DURING:

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NOW:

This is very hard to photograph. Some views it's pretty vivid red. Mostly it's glare, lol.

[Jwb88]

First time removing backgrounds. Nice or weird?

Here's what the back looks like. You can see a ring in high light if you look closely but in general room lighting it's pretty undetectable. To me, anyway. AND IT'S THE BACK.

Here's a shot in progress showing how red it is in the light (and before a final French polish of shellac, so that probably darkened it slightly)

[gramophone-georg]

[Vinrage_mania]

Very Nice!

[Valecnik]

Beautiful workmanship! You did a really great job, including fixing that hole in the back. I think you were better off patching than re-veneering, especially on the backside.

Congrats on bringing back a beautiful machine from the grave!

[billybob62]

Outstanding!!

[Roaring20s]

You should be very proud of the overall job and that hole fill especially. I certainly would!

James.

[Pete Stratford]

What an amazing job! I can hardly believe that it is the same machine. Well done!!