New find yesterday Seeburg 100bl

[BrianB]

After:

[MoonDawg]

      Wow.........beautiful job!

[bcharlton]

Brian:

Did you have seems.  The B is 26" wide and I can only find veneer that is 24".  I had seems on the Seeburg 100b I did for my parants.  You had to look close to spot them but I wanted to avoid seems on this one.  I want to try a diffenert veneer. The iron-on veneer worked good but I wanted something a little nicer.  Let me know

BC

[Larry]

Very sharp.  Makes me want one even more!!

[Kilroy]

Brian,
try Oakwood Veneer,  They have every wood imaginable, in every style you can think of, including Zebrawood which looked pretty darn close to the orginal style saeeburg used on some of there machines.  And they can sell you 4 x8' sheets
http://oakwoodveneer.com/

[bcharlton]

Thanks Kilroy

Brian C

[TomFromJersey]

Guys
  If your ever looking for a Jukebox please let me know. I just had a really nice looking origonal complete "R".
  Tom

[Pat Pixley]

Brian B that look really nice how long did it take you to get it restored ??
 and also it look like  it in a front room ? How did you get that by the wife ??

  Pat

[davethebirdman]

I have one of my jukes in the front room...
You move it there in the dead of night and stick on a few 45's that you know your wife likes...

When see moans you say  "I moved if for you and put your favourites in... You know how much I dislike those songs.. I did it all for you." .... Hey Presto...


By the way... Brian as always a fantastic job... You have some lovely toys...

[BrianB]

Brian -

I special ordered a 48" wide roll. Yes, there are seams. I wanted to keep the physical layout as original as possible. It would have been a WHOLE LOT easier if I didn't use seams though! 

Pat - It took me aboiut 7 months working on it here and there. It was a very fun project! The only parts that don't bring it back to 100% original are the veneer and I also had all of the aluminium trim chrome plated. Usually I'm not about "flashy" chrome add-on's but on this project I thought it would look ok.

There re three main types of veneer on the market. PSA (Pressure Sensitve Adhesive) Backed, Heat Activated and Paper Backed (Glue-on).

I have never used PSA Veneer but will probably try that next. I've used the other two with great results. Using the paper backed means that you have to glue it with basically rubber cement and then roll it and weigh it down to get it where you want it, fairly challenging for the first timer. It's all about proper placement on the first try. Once two peices of material coated with tacky cement on them meet they don't move a whoile lot afterwards!

Another company that has top notch supplies for veneering is http://www.vandykes.com/category/veneer