The first step was disassembling the machine and taking notes of each damaged or missing part. The oak bedplate frame was broken so a new one was created with matching wood. The cabinet couldn't be restored so we had to strip, pore fill, and give it 6 coats of shellac along with a new cabinet decal. We aged the decal, as you can see in the picture. The cabinet received 10 coats of hand rubbed varnish for its final finish. Now it looks like it would have originally. We next stripped the bed-plate, then pore-filled it like the factory originally did. This removed all imperfections in the castings. It was then primed, and painted a very dark black. Decals were hand applied, smoothed, and shellacked it order to give it the faint "orange tinge" they came with.

The bed-plate received 6 coats of varnish. The motor was fully rebuilt to factory specs. All nickel work on the machine was restored and re-nickeled. The horn was a repro that is available. Our customer wanted the "Hand of God touching Adam's hand" from the Sistine Chapel painted on the horn so we first painted it black and then had the hands painted on before the horn was pin-striped in gold. It was sealed with 2 coats of varnish.

Once the machine was re-assembled we hand stitched the drive belt. This beautiful machine runs perfectly and belongs to Hoyt Griffith of California.