Polystrippa

I found a picture from back when I started the polyurethane strip last month.
Instructions are pretty straightforward:
- apply thick layer of methylene chloride
- find something to do for half an hour, until surface is bubbly
- scrape off the old urethane with a paint scraper
- repeat on tough areas
- rub surface with paint thinner; areas that do not soak up the thinner and become visibly darker still have urethane protecting the finish and will need to be sanded or scraped further
- clean surface area
- sand with 180 grit.

I recommend this work be completed in a well ventilated room that isn't used for sleeping. Having no access to a shop or garage, I was forced to sleep among the fuming organ and each night I followed a continuing dream in which I metamorphose into the organ itself with Fats Waller and Keith Emerson simultaneously hacking at my teeth and tickling my underarms.

Pictures of the aniline dyed finish to come soon.

Hammond M3 Chop Project Unfinished

Midst springtime warming with the shoures soot
and each veyne bathed from head to foot
of swich licour I then began to chop and
sand to merrily fill a full thought plan

Recycled the legs of an old provencial coffee table extending the frame with countersunk bolts and 3/4" oak

Hoping to keep the grain visible upon staining

Amplifier mounted inside above tonewheel generator, more pictures of inside to come.

The wobbly-jig saw cuts were a major concern of mine from the beginning

But now I am questioning my initial colour choices, amongst a myriad of set-backs such as...

...upon finishing the leg gluing and bracing,, sscreacckkkh.... a stressed frame cracks under the weight of the mighty hammond.  I am re-glueing the corner joint and pray to Hephaestus it will be enough to hold.