My Record Player, COMPLETED!
After 4 days of hard work on the stereo cabinet, it is finally complete, put back together, set up, and plugged in. Rich loves it, and so do I. Here is what it looks like:

And here is what we did:
1. Removed the lid, speaker panels, and all of the hardware.
2. Sanded down the shiny finish with 120 grit sandpaper and my Ryobi electric sander (by hand in tight spaces).
3. Painted (I didn’t use primer because I was using Behr’s paint + primer) 3 coats of “Ivory Palace” on the whole thing, sanding lightly with 320 grit sandpaper between each coat.
4. Re-covered the speaker panels with Ikea’s Elisabet fabric – I actually covered both of them so the speaker openings were exactly the same, and had to completely redo that one!
5. Painted the lid’s underside with Behr’s Brilliant Sea, again sanding lightly between each coat.
6. Attached the new speaker cover panels with velcro – I plan to make at least one more set of speaker panels, for other seasons of when I’m tired of the stripes.
7. Spray painted the hardware satin black – the brass was scratched, nicked, and pretty badly damaged.
8. Re-attached the lid and hardware.
Et voila! Done.
































