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I have this 1929 Philco 95 Lowboy with a broken Grill. Can any of you wood/cabinet experts out there tell me what type of wood was originally used on this part of the broken grill  I'd like to make up a replacement using the same type of wood or veneer. Thanks! 
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Looks like walnut veneer over the thin layered plywood.
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I think it was French walnut in particular, what cut doesn't matter. The grilles used in the 1928-29 "Lowboy" style console cabinets are almost as notorious for breakage as the Philco 20 cathedrals are. I think that the solution is to acquire some Baltic birch plywood of a suitable thickness, and then laminate it with some French walnut veneer, and then cut it out. Although if might be easier to check with Steve Davis about this, it's such a common problem that he may be replicating replacement grilles for these by now.
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As I can recall - which might not be too good - these might be birch plywood without any other veneer. Using stain and toner to match the cabinet.
I think that later examples were sold without the grill at all.
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I just looked at the one in our bathroom. The grain and color match the area of trim below the cut-out. So it is either walnut or mahogany. Just sand an area of the original. If it is pinkish or orange it is mahogany. If it is brown or reddish brown, walnut
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Umm
you have a radio like that in your bathroom 
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yes. And it isn't in the bathtub.
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Thanks for your help guys.
phlogiston: do you use it to sing along to "Singing In The Bathtub" 
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I'm off-season from my job, so I'm working on some projects I have been pushing to the back of the cue. I decided to make an attempt at making a new grill for this 1929 Philco 95 Lowboy.
I picked this up July 2016 at the Alameda California Historical Radio Society's annual swap meet and auction for $10.
This is the condition it was in when I brought it home. The radio is complete, and unbelievably has never been serviced.
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I finally pulled the crushed grill piece out, and took it down to a store here in town that sells veneer. I asked the experts there what type of wood it was. The consensus was Mahogany that has Toner on it, possibly Walnut color.
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I used Photoshop, a scan of the piece, and pics of another radio with the grill intact to create a template of the grill pattern, and printed it out.
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I have had a good size sheet Mahogany on hand for quite some time left over from another repair, so I cut a piece off, and applied it to a small piece of nice plywood the correct thickness.
Using the printout, I rubbed some pencil on the back, then laid that down on the wood, traced it out, which transferred the design like carbon paper onto the wood, then used a fine tip sharpie to trace the pencil.
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The next step is to cut it out.
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WOW. I really like that model! Looks like your on the right track for the repair. I can't wait to see the phinished results!  What an excellent phind!
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---another one of those threads that I lost.
Anyway, the model 95 in our bathroom:
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