vintage living room unit

- every radio definitelyhas its own personality. this is the boom box your grandmother or maybe your great-grandmotherwould have carried around. this reminds me of a football, actually. if you live in a split-level house, this is the radio for you. this radio has never been opened before, 'cause this one's a breeze. there's not a whole lot of documentation

that's still around on how to do this. its going too red for my liking. you get them in wrong, the radio blows up. sometimes, i work on these radios for hours and hours and hours, and just when i thinki'm about to give up, something clicks in my mind and it works. to me, this radio looksvery science fiction like. this would be like theconsole of a space ship.

it started off as ahobby and now its become a little bit more than that. i have several hundred at any given point. these radios are foundin dumps and garages and old closets. there were families thatprobably sat around these radios and listened to the firstman land on the moon. fdr's fireside chats were probably playing through these radios.

digital technology sterilizes music. old radios sound a lot more organic, a lot warmer. when i repair these radios i feel like i'm giving them back their old voice.

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