After lots of elbow grease (well, really just Gojo), sourcing a new lid (that I bought from Skihawx), and scraping some paint I've got a pretty well transformed machine. Here are some before and after pics.
Here she is... my transformed XVI
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Re: Here she is... my transformed XVI
Sadly my XVI came with a chrome Exhibition, anybody out there have a gold colored one they'd like to swap for a chrome?
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Very nice!!
Cliff's Vintage Music Shoppe, Castle Rock, WA
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A few days ago someone was selling herein a golden exhibition, check the US trader section...
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Re: Here she is... my transformed XVI
That would be nickel-plating, not chrome. Nickel has a yellowish cast, chrome is bluish.
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Looks good, nice job....
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"No one needs a Victrola XX, a Perfected Graphophone Type G, or whatever you call those noisy things."
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Congratulations on a job well done. Saving a phonograph from the parts bin has to be one of the best aspects of the hobby.
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Re: Here she is... my transformed XVI
Those are some very impressive before/after shots! Well done indeed.
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Hello Dischoard (a clever name!) It looks like a brown Pathé PERFECT record on the turntable of your machine. Do I see a wooden needle in the socket?
I had a feeling that wooden needles and brown "Perfect" records did not go well together.
A very nice job you have made of the gramophone. I had a similar model years ago. I remember it was in a 1920s house in a classy part of our seaside town. Unfortunately the machine was in the attic, four flights up! We managed to get it downstairs with a lot of quiet swearing, and snubbing of toes and knuckles against the walls. I remember there were about 5 78s with the gram, nothing of interest, EXCEPT for a rare "Featherflex" disc.
I had a feeling that wooden needles and brown "Perfect" records did not go well together.
A very nice job you have made of the gramophone. I had a similar model years ago. I remember it was in a 1920s house in a classy part of our seaside town. Unfortunately the machine was in the attic, four flights up! We managed to get it downstairs with a lot of quiet swearing, and snubbing of toes and knuckles against the walls. I remember there were about 5 78s with the gram, nothing of interest, EXCEPT for a rare "Featherflex" disc.