Stromberg Carlson Radiogram Part 4 ... All Done 

Man of many talents, now you can and electroplating to that long list, nice job Dave.

looking so much better, actually the second colour really does suit it, great work, AGAIN

Another great restoration project David. Your RU-vid videos are some of the best in my opinion. Your a very skilled craftsmen and communicator.

"I was working in the lab, late one night, When my eyes beheld an eerie sight." David, you're a "Mad Scientist!" Just kidding. :-) I'm impressed with all the talents you use on your projects. Electronics, Radio, Carpentry, Painting, Chemistry, Video Editing, a little History, Humor (and family, with your little helpers)

Yes, that does look better! The ability to rescue a bad stain job is what separates the men from the boys in woodworking. Great job, and thanks for showing us all the steps you take, including the ones that don't come out right. They're as instructive as your many successes have been.

Great job David. I am glad you went with the more Blond Wood Color it fits the period for most tabletops. I really enjoy your videos. Keep up the great work. Joe

David, your attention to detail is just superb! What a craftsman! Great restoration, you should be proud of your work.

Another great restoration David. You have managed the impossible turning a heap of junk back into a showroom model. Excellent! I really am in awe of your craftsmanship and patience. By the way you were right about the colour. Keep safe and look forward to some more Radio Adventures!

I let out an audible "YAAAAAAS" during this video... had to explain to my family it was my approval of the new color. I'm a nerd. Great job on this!!

Lovely stuff Dave. You've piqued my interest in trying some electroplating. Nice work!

Amazing result once again, Dave. I'm worried about your teeth though. In this project you bit the bullet at least a couple of times and bullets can be pretty hard.

Dave, I restore a lot of Heathkit Test Equipment & Tube Radio's. You *ALWAYS* give me ideas on how to repair your devices! -- Nicer Color. Much better! Beautiful job!!!

What a turn around that poor thing had one foot in the grave and now is back to better than new to serve many more years of service Top Job David as always.

An adventure it was, respect for your patience.

I admire your dedication to perfection! You are never afraid to try something new. Well done! By the way you can use electrolysis to remove rust.

This project might have caused some sleepless night’s David, but I think it has been worth the effort. It has become a real beauty...👍👍

David, another example of your craftsmanship - thank you for sharing

Once again you do things i did not know could be easily done in a home workshop with normally available tools and equipment. Good of you to show us that stuff Dave. The old record player radio unit came out really nice too. Thanks so much for sharing it with us.

Wow, the things they built when quality came first, performance was tweaked to the best and before cheap plastic and robot made cases were used to cut prices and quality went down to will it work, instead of make it sound great. Thanks for the wonderful video, I do so enjoy watching you do such quality work. I was once a gunsmith in my earlier days. Occasionally I would send a hand gun off to have it nickel platted. The center I sent it to was just down the road a few dozen miles and they were not normally doing guns but repairing bumpers and auto trim on older vehicles. The way they went about the processes was to first polish down the gun to bare metal then clean it using some acid dunk then they would copper plate the whole thing, polish the copper and again dunk to clean, then into the nickel tank and electro plate the copper with the nickel. According to the fellow who ran the place, nickel plated on copper better then on steel, and copper platting stuck to the steel much better then pure nickel. The folks who got their nickel platted revolvers back were very happy with the results and I could get it done at about half the price as other smiths at the time.

That was a great restoration video. Loved every bit of your repairs. Really nice sounding and working piece of furniture you have now. Thanks for sharing.

I am so glad you changed the color, now it has a soft original presence to it. Well done. Thx for the time you shared with us.

Really 👍 like this 📻 radio. Didn't 👌 know you were going to do a part 4, but that's GREAT. I did 👍 like the cherrywood color it originally was, but I also became used to the second color you made it. 👍 Yes, it has the usual dial cord and dial light, but the speaker appears to be field coil. Sure wish this 🌎 world would go back to tube 📻 radios 👍 like this, even if the year is 2039, instead of 1939, such as if this 📻 radio is a 1939. Could then celebrate a hundred years of tube 📻 radio. Your friend, Jeff.

Bravo! Looks very good and sounds great! Thanks for taking the time to share with the rest of us.

The second color is perfect! Super craftsmanship as always. BTW, I had a phone call early, and when the video resumed, through my headphones came this sinister laughter! What a surprise. I immediately ran to a mirror, fully expecting to see fangs in the reflection! My adrenalin lowered afterwards... :) Thanks David for the difficult work.

Hi David. As always, you never disappoint. The electroplating was interesting and the mad scientist laughter was a plus. Bless you and your patience, the number of times that you stripped that cabinet and made adjustments was impressive. Bravo!

Hi David. Once again a wonderful restoration. Don’t sell yourself short. You look anything but struggling!

Awesome job that plating will help out with a lot of other projects down the road.

This series of videos about stromberg carlson was fantastic, electric coat was amazing !!!! Congratulations - Sao Paulo - Brazil

Quite a journey. Liked the ‘chemistry with Mr Tipton’. So pleased you changed the cabinet colour, it was all looking a bit too swan vesta with that red. Looks really nice now. Credit to you.

Great one, again. Learnt a thing or two about plating, which I’ve never tried before. Thank you.

So I watched the whole thing. I,m impressed with your commitment to excellence. I don,t know how you summon the patience and perseverence to redo things. If I had to strip off that first veneer, If I had to strip off that first finnish etc. I would just about cry. Or maybe a deep depression. But I think you did the right thing with the finish. It's beautiful! I kinda knewn there's always been radio repair guys. They were around even when my dad was young. Thats one thing, but I never heard of a phonograph repair guy. I remember phongraphs when I was growing up, but I never knew or heard of anyone that repaired them. Given that phonogaphs are now obsolete, your profession in this feild must be rare. You're really saving history and it's always a pleasure to see these things working and functioning as they used to.

Another beautiful job Dave. I always learn something from your techniques & skills (old, experimental & newly acquired!), so thank you.

Really great restoration, bravo! You're one of my favourite youtubers at the moment, pure good quality uploads. Keep them coming David!

Hi Dave I’m so in awe of your cabinet skills. Yes that mahogany stain, in the past I tried using it and it was always too irriescent red. I admire your patience

Hi David. Greetings from the UK. That is seriously good work. I could believe the number of times you visited that veneer. It looks really good! A craftsman of the HIGHEST order.

You're an inspiration Dave! I was abandoning a difficult project of mine but thought of you and what you've done and removed it from the box and put it back on the bench. My results will never match yours but I'm determined to see it through. And, after seeing yours a few times through the videos, I'm tossing my old dingy white socks and getting new ones! )

"Five coats"? Geez, she'd be very warm in Winter! LOL😁😁

Loved it Dave.. Love to watch you take a piece of history and return it to a treasure! Well Done !!

Love the :maniacal" perfectionism. . . . . . this world needs more of it! :-) Bravo!!

I’m sure this looks at least as good as new, good job!

David - wonderful job. Always something new to see - nickel plating this time. You are such a perfectionist - hard to believe that you are going to yet again strip the veneer from the lid. Your speaker repairs looked like they went much smoother than the last speaker repairs you showed. Well done - never apologize for the little humor skits. Keep smiling.

You are the best Dave. Just enjoy watching you work your magic.

That turned out great! I like the record changer in that one.

Wonderful work and a pleasure to watch.

Beautiful work as always. Thank you

I really appreciate, how you go to the trouble of making things right, rather than just settling for something you are not happy with.......the end results are always superb....... I really liked the plating demo........I silver plate a lot of stuff, but have not plated anything else yet.

Beautiful job!

Spectacular David,I'm glad you decided to move away from mahogany to the walnut which is a much better choice of colour,nice speaker repair and well done with the electroplating,another great video mate,

Perfect work and excellent job.

Excellent job as usual David, keep up the good work and thanks for livening things up - in bleak times.

as ever David ... fantastic.... fascinating one this one!!!

Great bit of kit

Another fantastic restoration and the colour change was a good move .

It's a beautiful work...

Fantastic David thanks for sharing!

David is an artist!

Superb work..... love it......🙂👍

Awesome attention to detail. Nice restore!

Gosh you are a perfectionist! Fancy veneering it three times! I could see a little ripple on that bend, but wondered why it wasn't sanded out before staining.

Beautiful work, looks like new

It's really beautiful; the radiogram looks like new. I thoroughly enjoyed watching you restore it, and meeting your grandchildren! Glad the font suggestion was OK too - it goes without saying I'm very proud I got a mention in one of your videos.

Very nice. Learning lots from your videos, thank you!

Loved the cackling for your experiment

Dave you never cease to amaze me ! I also think the final colour is awesome, i'm surprised as well with the sound quality with such a small refurbished speaker. Can't wait for your next project now, you're spoiling us :-)

Your struggle was well worth it Dave. I love the result and this color is much better than the red. I wouldn't bother with the lid, but I guess you want it 'pretty good'. :) I enjoyed this series. Thanks for taking the effort to make it and post it to RU-vid!

Wonderful job. Looks great and sounds great. 😁👍

Amazing restoration congratulation !!

Superb work again Dave.. I'm so glad you lightened the colour.. The first colour reminded , (not in a good way !), of the better half's 'cello' . Fortunately it's a phase that has ended, along with me trading it in against a American Chet Atkins Gretsch 6120 which is a nice shade of orange that is slightly lighter than of their President. We have a heat wave here in Blighty and you could fry an egg on the windowsill. A perfect excuse for the old codger I am to stay safe indoors and watch your video..I'm and Englishman but don't have a 'mad' dog just a.... ...No I'd better not say it !

Awesome as usual! Nice to see a radiogram getting the much needed love. Keep up!

Wonderful restoration David! We enjoy every project you take on. The electroplating was fascinating and worked out very well.

Outstanding! Brilliant work. Sir! 👏👏👍

What a great resurrection. Tea bag for speaker cone repair sounds good. I've used coffee filter paper in the past. Much prefer the honey color to the red. (That Parlophone record of Elizabethan Serenade reminds me of the one my mother had by the Ron Goodwin Orchestra.)

Fantastic job and the colour is excellent!

Excellent job !

Excellent craftsmanship Dave.

Beautiful restoration David!

Great Stuff David, as always. Loved the nickel plating on the hinges. I'm sure you'll get that lid to cooperate before long. I know you wouldn't want another UNIC ROYAL mocking you daily. ha ha Best wishes and stay safe, Jerry

Greetings from Luxembourg! Excellent work! Thanks.

As always, it’s beautiful, wow, it looks like it just came out of the factory, very nice work,👍😃.

Really nice stuff, Dave. It looks great.

Wonderful video as usual Dave 👍🏻 I’ve now binge watched all your videos. Really enjoying the humor and has gotten me hooked on vintage Radios Restoration 😂

You’re a dedicated guy, Dave. I’m always looking forward to your weekly videos!

What a transformation, great work !!! Thank you for sharing. Now for the Friday night beer. I will be looking forward to the next radio that comes up.

Great video & great result Dave. Better than new. Cheers.

Well done David, yet another great video. Many thanks. Take care and stay safe

For reproducing old lettering I've grown really fond of Inkscape's "Redraw Bitmap" function. It'll turn any old scan into a vector image (clean black & white) that you can scale pretty much indefinitely and print in perfect quality (or engrave on a laser cutter or cut on a vinyl plotter). If you zoom in and spend some time tweaking the letters you can even edit out any imperfections. It should work great on the clear plastic, probably not so much on the logo from the case because that's very low contrast against the dark timber but it might even be possible to get that vectorised. That way you get an absolutely perfect copy of the original font!

What a pity you can only give one like! This episode is worth more. Never seen such a speaker repair before. And then, the nickel plating. David, you really care for originality! And, eventually, you decided you don't like the color. Tell you what: I didn't like it, too. Ten thumbs up!

Another great video 👍👍. Beautiful explanation of nichel-plating. I’ll use this tachnique for shure.

Excellent as ever and never be sorry, but always be you! All the best my friend

Amazing! Thanks a lot for share and teach.

What a good watch, love the colour change, and a hahahahahaha, cheers

Another great job Dave. I was looking forward to more jokes like the last episode cause lord knows we could all use the laughs at the moment. Still a great video and was happy to see it. Hope you are all doing well in QLD and staying safe. Keep up the great work 👍

Good job Dave. I like your tea bag repair.

You saved it! I hated that redish color and I was waiting to see if David was going to disappoint me for the first time. Well you didn't, it looks great (and a period correct now) BRAVO! And the sound is amazing for such a small speaker! Perhaps a chamfer on the hinge screws so they fit flush and maybe a bit more lacquer on the front so the transfer edge is hidden. Perfection is just a few steps away!

Superb mate.

Second color does look much better. Nice series 👌

Superb job, good choice to change the colour it did look much better in the brown. I just started nickel plating also, restoring a vintage motorbike, wish I started playing years ago. I find keeping the amps low and leaving the parts in longer gives better results, polishes really well.

Fantastic results! It has a great period look to it, and I think you choose the right color for it in the end. :)

Stunning finish Dave ,it looked like its just has came fresh from the factory , The lighter color gave its admired look ,I also have yet to try nickel plating so watching you has inspired me to give it a go , i have also have seen it done with stainless steel on a IF can and it came up like chrome .Well done and a big pat on the back for excellent s ,

Wonderfull and soooo interesting, very,very good Job. Milling,Woodwork etc., you can all !!👏👏