I'm not sure if I can really call this a restoration as such .. maybe more of a remix ?
I bought these two vintage Goodmans Magnums on here from Geoff for £40 about a year or so ago and have stripped them to clean the pots on the back, fit more modern banana plug sockets, paint the fascias and re-cover the dated looking grilles.
The cracked finish on the front will divide opinion I'm sure, but I quite like it. They look "clubby" now though it was a complete accident how it came about. I had planned to paint them matt black and bought some spray to do just that, but I ended up using Hammerite around the cut-outs for the drivers - I'd removed them completely to facilitate the spraying - so as to mask the bare wood from that area. I had no idea the Hammerite would react with the matt paint like that but I thought it looked kinda cool.
The grilles were easy enough to do with superglue and a lot of patience.
They'll be on the end of the Denon integrated I picked up for a fiver and a great Trio turntable off Gumtree for forty quid. Given my gf and I had set each other a budget of £50 for Xmas as we're both a bit skint right now, I think I've done quite well (I'm not counting the cost of the Goodmans as it was from "last year's budget" as the politicians would say ).
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