Cabinet
The cabinet was pretty rough, but a nice plywood one. It had chunks missing from the sides, the side art was worn to white in places, the t-molding was pathetic, and the base was reduced the the structural integrity of frosted flakes, and that isn't GRRRRREAT!
I made a new base, filled the missing chunks with bondo, Colored in the missing parts of the Vs side art with sharpies, and painted the sides and speaker area with color matched latex paint.
In New York there are so few places that will color match oil based enamel paint because of VOC restrictions that I assumed that I would have to either use crappy latex paint, or buy super expensive automotive paint. If I were to spend money I would but vinyl for the sides, but I really didn't want to spend my money on this one so I went with latex. Looks good, but if you want you can easily scrape it off.
Funny thing is that my 8 month old spilled the paint over that I got at Home Depot (40 miles from my house) so I went to Wal-mart, and their color matching computer was broken, so then I went to ACE, and it turns out that they will color match oil based enamel!
I picked up a quart oil based, but didn't use it as the cabinet was already half painted in latex. I got is as a back-up in-case the latex was a huge failure. It wasn't, it looks good.
I installed some of AudioMIDIMan's True-flat molding, and that stuff is beautiful! I want to buy more just to hold it in my hands!
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