[McMurdo]

I'm lucky enough to have had an uncle who was a trained french polisher when he worked as a bar fitter in the 1950's, so I was given a crash course a few years ago. I practised on a 1950's bush that had seriously delaminated due to being left outside, a radio that would have simply been sprayed on a production line when new; after all the hard work I managed to get a passable result and a radio that was visually much better than the average early 50's Bush or Pye mass product.

I used Bartoline ready mixed french polish with a cotton-covered sponge rubber and a dab of linseed oil on the rubber (ie a fingertip of it) after each recharge.

There's nothing as exciting as slotting a restored chassis into a restored cabinet for the first time and putting the knobs and back on, then standing back and switching on!

Your radio has a beautiful finish and I hope you're inspired to do more this way, I love these step by step pictorial accounts; good work.