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No, I was wondering if a decal gets old and therefore becomes less likely to be successfully transferred to a cabinet.

I personally apply the decal quite late in the restoration process. I'll apply several finish coats, apply the decal, and then a few more finish coats. Jerry B.

I put the motor back in, the hardware on, then wondered what it might look like when a complete machine. The horn and other acoutrements are borrowed from another machine.

Wow, looks great.

Mike

I brought a bunch of old decals and the batch included some varnish/shellac decals. I tried two and screwed them up. I guess I should have looked up the procedure on how to apply. They were for Edison's . I finally found Greg Cline and have only used his. There are a couple of bottles of different solutions that are used during the application he sales that make the job easier. One to slide on and one to cover them after application. That is a nice restoration job on the phonograph. Tom

I love to see your restoration work:) Great to see someone doing the same work as I do myself these days, as I am restoring my first Victrola, a VV-XI-A, which is
also my first phonograph/gramophone restoration work ever.

Would the large all brass horn that Ripduf1 placed on the Trader be appropriate for this AH? How tough would it be to locate the traveling arm and support arm to use this horn? It would make it an impressive machine.

Jerry Blais

Thanks for the comments.The machine is coming along. But it's more than modesty that prompts me to point out that there are some on this Forum whose skills are truly outstanding. I think particularly of one fellow in Spain. He is both an artist and an artisan.

Now, the horn, travelling arm, support bracket, and reproducer all were recently bought on a late model AH. (That machine needs a new fiber gear). So far I have kept these parts with that machine. But I rather doubt they started out together. Why? Well, the reproducer that you see in the photo has a screw to tighten down on the needle. I believe that was only made for about two years or so (could be wrong) and therefore pre-dates the fenestrated (or whatever its called) travelling arm. So I don't think those parts are necessarily original to that machine, but so far I have been reluctant to put them on this machine that has the earlier and harder to find motor.