Uh, the pics on the left are the 'before' pictures. I bought it stained an ugly orangish color. The horn was painted gold. I had the cabinet refinished (actually they had to use a specially mixed stain because the wood, when it had been refinished originally, had been bleached and lost a lot of its natural color), and bought an original horn for it. The gold painted horn was too hard to strip, the gold kept streaking all over the place. I had the metal parts renickeled - on the pics on the left, the nickel is nearly gone. So I took it from ugly duck to nice mahcine, not vice-versa. John Bob <rvuill at comcast.net> wrote: Hi John, I'm confused. The pictures on the right appear to be your IV with its' original finish. The ones on the left look like the machine after stripping both the horn and case. Why didn't you leave it alone? The original looks pretty good. RMV ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Robles" To: Sent: Friday, April 13, 2007 5:43 AM Subject: [Phono-L] Vic IV before and after > Vic IV before and after > I am pretty much done with the Vic IV I bought. Check my album for the > before and after pics. > John Robles > http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/john9ten@pacbell.net/album?.dir=/35a6scd&.src=ph&.tok=ph4eflGBHL_H..l1 > _______________________________________________ > Phono-L mailing list > http://phono-l.oldcrank.org _______________________________________________ Phono-L mailing list http://phono-l.oldcrank.org