Harbourmastr
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A 1960 Premier in the French Provincial Cabinet!
It appears to be pretty much all original. According to the seller (nephew) it was originally owned by a retired Captain of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, and had spent it's whole life in the living room of his house In Long Beach. When I bought it it was being used by a local "Punk/Prog/Ska" band that the nephew is a member of {that used the living room space as a practice area} for listening to music for inspiration and enjoyment. They were vacating the house to go on tour and he didn't want to leave the Fisher to an uncertain fate at the hands of renters. These first photo's are from the CL ad.
As you can see in the photo's it was missing one of the rear legs, but I was able to remove the legs from the other side of the cabinet and I have a friend that is a woodworker use them as a pattern to make a new replacement out of solid walnut. The entire base will need to be removed in order to fit the new leg, which should not be too difficult as all of the glue joints are loose from having the console slid around the floor, and the finish will need some creative toner blending to get things to match and not stand out too much from the rest of the cabinetry.
I'm inclined to try and clean up the finish on the rest of the cabinet and leave it as-is rather than strip and refinish it. The light colored spot on top appears to be latex paint and shouldn't be too hard to remove.
The TA-600 looks nice and sounds good too! As I said the unit was being used on a regular basis. Of course I intend to give it a full electronic refresh and updating using all of the great information found here. The Record changer will need a refreshing as well although it appears functional.
The chassis/ tube layout is missing but the small white tag that is present gives us another link to the past. It is from the Penny Owsley Music Company [where this console was purchased], a local Long Beach company that was started in the 1940's that eventually grew to 6 stores in Southern California, and was bought up in the late 60's by The Sherman Clay Music Co.
I haven't pulled the chassis yet to see what lurks underneath but aside from the thick layer of dust it looks pretty good on the topside.
All the tubes I can see appear to be the original Fisher Branded Mullards.
I'm really excited to own this rare gem, and will update this thread as I get into the restoration.
It appears to be pretty much all original. According to the seller (nephew) it was originally owned by a retired Captain of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, and had spent it's whole life in the living room of his house In Long Beach. When I bought it it was being used by a local "Punk/Prog/Ska" band that the nephew is a member of {that used the living room space as a practice area} for listening to music for inspiration and enjoyment. They were vacating the house to go on tour and he didn't want to leave the Fisher to an uncertain fate at the hands of renters. These first photo's are from the CL ad.
As you can see in the photo's it was missing one of the rear legs, but I was able to remove the legs from the other side of the cabinet and I have a friend that is a woodworker use them as a pattern to make a new replacement out of solid walnut. The entire base will need to be removed in order to fit the new leg, which should not be too difficult as all of the glue joints are loose from having the console slid around the floor, and the finish will need some creative toner blending to get things to match and not stand out too much from the rest of the cabinetry.
I'm inclined to try and clean up the finish on the rest of the cabinet and leave it as-is rather than strip and refinish it. The light colored spot on top appears to be latex paint and shouldn't be too hard to remove.
The TA-600 looks nice and sounds good too! As I said the unit was being used on a regular basis. Of course I intend to give it a full electronic refresh and updating using all of the great information found here. The Record changer will need a refreshing as well although it appears functional.
The chassis/ tube layout is missing but the small white tag that is present gives us another link to the past. It is from the Penny Owsley Music Company [where this console was purchased], a local Long Beach company that was started in the 1940's that eventually grew to 6 stores in Southern California, and was bought up in the late 60's by The Sherman Clay Music Co.
I haven't pulled the chassis yet to see what lurks underneath but aside from the thick layer of dust it looks pretty good on the topside.
All the tubes I can see appear to be the original Fisher Branded Mullards.
I'm really excited to own this rare gem, and will update this thread as I get into the restoration.
