[andrekp]

OK, thanks everyone.

Maybe I'll take one of the decals I'm not using and try it one some Danish-oiled scrap and see what happens. I'd rather not do any further finishing if I don't have to - as it looks great with the Danish oil and my goal was a nice piece for my own enjoyment - not a period perfect restore.

I suppose I could make a typical looking back out of some hardboard with some vent holes cut. It'd mostly just be to keep nosey critters from sticking their noses in.

So if I attempt to replicate that cap & coil combo, what is the critical feature of the coil? The number of turns, the size of the turns, the fact that they wrap the cap, or....? I ask because, obviously, a new cap is not going to be thumb-sized like the old one, so if I reuse that same coil wire, the cap will be swimming in it! Does that matter? (I was thinking just slide the old cap out and put the new one in its place.)

Andre