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Philco PT-49 - Repro Photofinish
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This cabinet of this set is interesting from a restoration perspective because of the photofinish zebrawood trim. It was obviously beyond saving.

For a while I've been wanting to try making reproduction photofinish using inkjet printable decal paper. Most decal paper results in transparent decals - which won't work here. There are however a few suppliers of of white decal paper and I wanted to find out if it would make a decent quality reproduction.

To get started I traced the shape of the zebrawood trim and scanned it in. I then found a high-resolution photo of zebrawood online and created new zebrawood photofinish from it in Photoshop.

   

I wanted to print the decals in a few pieces as possible - preferably in three pieces like the original. The left and right side photofinish sections are ~14" long - so I ordered tabloid size (11" x 17") white decal paper from world-paper.com: http://www.world-paper.com/product-p/waterslide004.htm

(I have an Epson XP-960 printer that I bought for printing out schematics blown up to 11" x 17" - perfect for this job too.)

[Image: https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4261/3550...c1bd_k.jpg]

A PDF of the zebrawood trim for printing can be downloaded from the Downloads list in the Gallery under the PT-49.


Messages In This Thread
RE: Philco PT-49 Refinish - by Nathan Slingerland - 07-02-2017, 01:21 PM
RE: Philco PT-49 Refinish - by OldRestorer - 07-02-2017, 01:21 PM
RE: Philco PT-49 Refinish - by Nathan Slingerland - 07-02-2017, 01:24 PM
RE: Philco PT-49 Refinish - by Nathan Slingerland - 07-02-2017, 01:31 PM
RE: Philco PT-49 Refinish - by sam - 07-02-2017, 01:34 PM
RE: Philco PT-49 Refinish - by Nathan Slingerland - 07-02-2017, 01:35 PM
RE: Philco PT-49 Refinish - by Nathan Slingerland - 07-02-2017, 01:38 PM
RE: Philco PT-49 Refinish - by Old Tube - 07-02-2017, 02:10 PM
RE: Philco PT-49 Refinish - by Nathan Slingerland - 07-02-2017, 03:01 PM
RE: Philco PT-49 Refinish - by sam - 07-02-2017, 03:13 PM
RE: Philco PT-49 - Repro Photofinish - by KCMike - 07-02-2017, 06:52 PM
RE: Philco PT-49 - Repro Photofinish - by gregb - 07-02-2017, 07:55 PM
RE: Philco PT-49 - Repro Photofinish - by pbert - 01-29-2018, 06:16 PM



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