[Eliot Ness]

I bought this radio way back in the 80's and it has been on a back shelf forever because I initially thought it needed to be refinished.  This is the model they used when they made the reproduction G.E. cathedral radios. 

I finally pulled it off the shelf (it weighs a ton) to clean it up a little and sell.  As I slowly cleaned and applied some magic potions to the cabinet the radio began to pop and even with the worn finish the patina looks great (at least to me), but I'll tolerate a worn original finish before I refinish.   The grill cloth is absolutely perfect and as a 10 tube set this monster is supposed to be a great performer, although the chassis is jammed packed and very difficult to work on, but I'll eventually get around to that.  Julie brought a set of original knobs to the Louisville meet so it now has the correct knobs (picture updated 05/07/19):

[Image: https://i.imgur.com/o6jEO6L.jpg]

The magic potions I used were a liberal amount of Goop hand cleaner (white formula, not orange), followed by some Howard Restore-A-Finish (walnut), and several applications of Howard Feed-N-Wax.  I'll follow this up with one of my paste waxes.