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Custom 1936 model 645
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Last year, a local friend was cleaning out their garage, and gave me a couple chassis. One is a 645 rescued from a crumbling 645 console.
I have no need for more consoles.  Icon_crazy
So I thought it might be a fun challenge to come up with and build my own tabletop tombstone. I like the shouldered tombstones.
I also like the grille cutout of the 650L.
So I cobbled these together in Photoshop.
Which do you all like best?
I recently saw a non Philco table top with the speaker on the bottom, and thought it was interesting. Hence the different design.
If I do move forward, it would drive some purists crazy, and possibly some historian crazy in 50 years.  Icon_lol

[Image: https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/5009...a75b_h.jpg]
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Blessings,
Jeff W.
Jonesboro, Arkansas

http://jeffsradios.weebly.com

God loves you as you are, not as you should be, because none of us are as we should be. - Brennan Manning
#2

Harp on top.
#3

From a practical point radio on the bottom speaker on top makes more sense. Easier to tune and see dial when it's placed on a table. But I think I like it the other way around (I'm lisdexsic).

When my pals were reading comic books
I was down in the basement in my dad's
workshop. Perusing his Sam's Photofoacts
Vol 1-50 admiring the old set and trying to
figure out what all those squiggly meant.
Circa 1966
Now I think I've got!

Terry
#4

Thought you were Italian. Icon_lol
#5

Speaker on top looks more appropriate to me.

People who do not drink, do not smoke, do not eat red meat will one day feel really stupid lying there and dying from nothing.




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