| I am sure that if someone took the time they could artistically duplicate the effect using colored varnish and a paint brush. You can mottle the colored varnish to get a very interesting swirling effect. However, another idea I had is to either obtain veneer of the same type or to get the pattern of the original photographic finish off of someone else's radio. If someone would be kind enough to do this and then either sell or donate to everyone a high quality scan, then what anyone with that radio could do is print it out on ordinary paper. I have a feeling that desk jet inks may fade over time, though it's worth a try. Laser inks are not as likely to fade. Print out a copy of the photo finish and then give it a couple of coats of varnish for water proofing purposes. Then glue it to the radio properly. After the glue has dried, varnish in the normal manner. I haven't tried it, but I bet it'd be just as good as the original paper photographic finishes. With the originals, you could see the half tone dots, so the graininess of some printers is not at all likely to be worse. Thomas |
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