Joiner's Musings

Mader loves the snow Our house on Christmas Day Here are a couple of photos of the property around the house. You can see that it is clearly winter and it has been an interesting winter so far. It has been a while since I have seen the accumulation of snow at this time of the year. In fact, we have had our driveway plowed out 5 times already which is very unusual. Usually at around Christmas time we will either not have seen our friendly plow driver or we have a green Christmas which of course means no plowing at all. Time will tell what kind of winter we will have. My guess, lots of snow this year.

Clamping and gluing the support board for the radio chassis I am in the process of restoring an old Stromberg Carlson radio circa 1946. I posted photos in a previous post showing the front of the radio. The original lacquer finish is coming off on the radio and it needs to be refinished which I will do with lacquer thinner and re-staining.. Gluing the veneer on a side panel These photos show the back of the radio and the work that needs to be done before I actually strip the finish. I am using carpenter's glue with clamps to re-glue the veneer to the back frame and a longer clamp to reattach the support board for the radio to the frame of the cabinet. Once the clamping and gluing is completed I can proceed to the stripping stage. You can see from the first photo that I have taken out the radio chassis and the speaker to make the job a little easier for me in the long run. I tried a little lacquer thinner yesterday on a test section and found that the fumes are such that...