"Unrevealed Source" wrote in message
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are telling me that "Perfect Brown" is my answer, so that's the
approach I'm going to use.

I think you have a very odd idea about "wildly varying grain and species"
regarding a typical old radio. I've been imagining from the stories on the
other group this would be a bizarre mix of woods. All I see here is an
absolutely typical set from the WW2 era or before- walnut veneer on the body
with whitewood trim. Almost EVERY radio is like this- yours has no more
"wildly varying and mismatched" wood than *any* typical set.

Almost NO ONE matched up the grain and or the species of wood all around the
set except a very few high end (and usually early) sets. Most makers made
wood radios just like yours, I could use it as a textbook example. The trim
just needs to be masked off and given coats of toner until it matches and
then add a couple over the whole thing to match it all in.

John H.