The next wood cabinet models produced are still categorized today as some of the most lavish the tombstone and the cathedral. Following the plain start of cabinet radios, companies like Zenith took a polar opposite approach the new invention. The original cabinet radios were plain and simple with a wooden box formation. Soon after the breadboard, radio companies knew that they could capitalize on their units as entertainment, thus the cabinet was created to hide all the “guts”. The breadboard radios arranged the tubes and coinciding components on a wooden board to create a “unit”. Atwater Kent was one of the first companies to pioneer the “breadboard” in the 1920’s.
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Companies such as American Telephone & Telegraph, Radio Corporation of America (RCA), and General Electric knew their newly invented software was going to need hardware resulting in the addition of wood. Around this time the first nationwide radio networks were developed. Radios were first produced using wood in the United States during World War I. They were the Cadillac of the American household during their heyday and they have remained as such as they grow into vintage or antique. Wood console units can be stripped and re-stained to look as if you were purchasing this unit for the first time, as can the tabletop units. This allows more wooden cabinets to survive the test of time. Unlike bakelite units which wear and tear much more visibly, wooden cabinets are more malleable to “damages”. We thought we would take a moment to capture a brief history of wooden cabinets and pinpoint some of their most outstanding attributes.Ī majority of our level 1 restorations are wooden cabinets most notably because of their resilience.
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Wood cabinet units- radios and phonographs alike- hold such a beauty because they are able to wear history with ease yet can be re-finished to luxury. Part of the radio’s most striking quality is its exterior. This month’s radio is our pristine 1934 Wards Airline Tabletop radio.