Bringing Vinnie Back To Life.
Meet Vinnie. He is a 1924 (I think) Vencedora.
I am bringing him back to life. I am going to turn him into a hand crank! (He is the one I was posting about asking whether he'd be suitable on a sailboat for sail-sewing; I may have called him a 127 but in fact, I think he is a128, right?)
I have done a huge amount of cleaning and disassembly and fixing on his underside and innards; I'll post about that later. For now, I want to show these photos for Glenn to see, to advise me on the coat.
As you can see, his coat was not in -terrible- shape. However, I need a learning experience for a shellac-tarting-up, and I would rather practice on Vinnie than on my F & R handcrank, which is my next candidate for this treatment. So, here is Vinnie, before much cleaning:
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