The full range of oak finishes was available on any Victrola listing for $100 or more. The chart is shown in The Victor Data Book. On a sample of 248 VV-100s, about 20% were oak (again from the Victor Data Book). On Jun 12, 2007, at 6:11 PM, bruce78rpm wrote: > I just acquired a Victor VV-100 floor model, which a friend of mine > found at New Hampshire Dump "Swap Shop" of all places. When he > called me on his way home Sunday night and told me where he had got > the machine, I totally expected that he would pull in the yard with > a beat up old Victor which I maybe could salvage some parts from. > As it turned out, the only things that seem to be missing are the > thumb screw on the Victor 2 reproducer and the knobs on the doors. > There are couple of minor veneer issues, but nothing that can't be > overcome. most of the machine had a white grunge all over it, but > when I started to clean it up with waterless non abrasive hand > cleaner, a spectacular weathered Oak finish, much like the example > at this web site was revealed. Just scroll down to Weathered Oak > and look at the example to the right (under the lid). I was unaware > that these kinds of finishes were offered for medium priced > machines like the VV-100. I was wondering if this was a common > occurrence, or this is some kind of oddity for this model. http:// > www.victor-victrola.com/oak.htm > > Bruce > _______________________________________________ > Phono-L mailing list > http://phono-l.oldcrank.org