The Fine Things are Always Hand Made
Two piece chassis version in a custom built cabinet.
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Location: Sacramento, CA
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Hello Bruce,...Interestingly enough, this particular Scott XII features the receiver chassis with a separate amplifier. I'll try and post some picts later.
This make sense to me as the XXII is the only Scott with just 1 chassis and a single speaker. I am doing exactly the same thing with a custom cabinet called the Heron. There was only room for the single Scott XII chassis and the speaker in it. The cabinet is so unique I wanted to keep it in my collection as a custom Scott
Its actually a custom built cabinet. Not a repurposed highboy. Never had legs.
I wonder if it is a repurposed high boy cabinet, minus the legs. Then a new radio and speaker panel made?
I seeno sign of booked veneer like a vintage panal would likely have.
In good light, do the panels look like different wood and finish than the rest of the cabinet?
I have seen a few high boy cabinets with shortened or missing legs. Indeed I have set aside an early Scott Warrington high boy missing the legs, now dismantled.
Yeah, found it this way. I have known about this radio since the late 1970's and didn't have the opportunity to acquire it until maybe the mid 1990's. The guy I bought it from purchased it from an old TV repair shop in Billing, MT. back in the 1960's. He saw it sitting in the back room on a work bench and ask about it. The owner of the shop stated some elderly woman brought it in for repairs and never came back to get it. Apparently it belonged to her late husband. After years of knowing about it, I managed to acquire it through a trade. The cabinet had some grill bars down the center and far right and left sides of the speaker opening which can be seen by close up view of area. I may consider having them remade and installed at some point. I've really done nothing to the set since I bought in it back in the '90s.
Ah! Merle
So that is what the entire cabinet looks like. I had spotted the corner of it in a other cabinet photo some years ago. Must be about the only Super XII in a table cabinet. Find it that way?
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