[Ron Ramirez]

I want to welcome our lurking audience from ARF.

I accomplished two things tonight:

1. I sprayed sanding sealer on the 42-761EZ cabinet.

Here's how it looks:

[Image: http://www.philcoradio.com/images/phorum..._00001.jpg]

This cabinet has very attractive veneer in places where it was toned with Medium Walnut. In areas that were originally black, the wood is quite plain.

It will be re-toned in the correct colors.

I spent the last few days, after work, gluing in small pieces of veneer on the back edge of the top of this cabinet, to replace missing small pieces of veneer.

To do this, I glued on pieces that were slightly larger than they needed to be, then once the glue had dried (the next day), I sanded the pieces smooth until they feathered in to the missing areas.

Here's an example - I had to do this in four areas along the back edge:

[Image: http://www.philcoradio.com/images/phorum..._00002.jpg]

Not bad for my first attempt, I think. I've never done this before. Not all four turned out perfect - but you know the old saying about practice making perfect...

2. I had previously added dye to my Behlen water-based "brown" grain filler that was a light ivory, not brown.

I poured part of the product into a pint jar and added a lot of dye to it. The result: Grain filler that looked like mud.

So, I added some black dye to the mud-colored filler. This (finally) darkened the product to a color more to my liking.

Wish me luck - I'll be trying it out tomorrow!