23-04-2012, 08:30 AM
Hi,
Many thanks Rob for your kind words. When my chum Henry was alive one of his pet hates was to have his surname spelled incorrectly; Cavnagh was his surname but how sad it was to read his funeral arrangements under Henry Cavanagh.
I owned another Pilot Little Maestro but never did anything with it; it looked most drab in a pale blue painted finish with squarish cabinet and I wondered if it was actually painted Bakelite? I recently let it go when I sold a lot of my sets to make some much wanted working space in the workshop. I much prefer the rounded "woody" Maestro it is a very pretty little set which as you rightly say Rob takes up little space. These are nice little sets to practice French Polishing on.
Many larger consoles and grams are no longer wanted and command very low prices when sold hence they get broken for spares with the cabinets going to landfill which is a real shame. I have two consoles and a floor standing gram also I have two table top grams and won't part with any of them even though they do occupy a lot of space.
I dream of some global warming then I could get stuck into some of my jobs and projects in comfort.
Kind regards, Col.
Many thanks Rob for your kind words. When my chum Henry was alive one of his pet hates was to have his surname spelled incorrectly; Cavnagh was his surname but how sad it was to read his funeral arrangements under Henry Cavanagh.
I owned another Pilot Little Maestro but never did anything with it; it looked most drab in a pale blue painted finish with squarish cabinet and I wondered if it was actually painted Bakelite? I recently let it go when I sold a lot of my sets to make some much wanted working space in the workshop. I much prefer the rounded "woody" Maestro it is a very pretty little set which as you rightly say Rob takes up little space. These are nice little sets to practice French Polishing on.
Many larger consoles and grams are no longer wanted and command very low prices when sold hence they get broken for spares with the cabinets going to landfill which is a real shame. I have two consoles and a floor standing gram also I have two table top grams and won't part with any of them even though they do occupy a lot of space.
I dream of some global warming then I could get stuck into some of my jobs and projects in comfort.
Kind regards, Col.
Happiness is a wreck of a cabinet to restore.
