Vintage Fire Alarm/Mailbox Restoration for Joe Rainis
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 ก.ย. 2024
- We have a restoration in hand for Joe Rainis. This is his mailbox that was a vintage fire alarm. This will be a series so stay tuned to see the finish!
Letts Do It!
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Gonna be a sweet custom mail box! 👍👍👍👍🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🙏🙏🙏🙏
Yes sir it's something to look at for sure!
Thanks Steve. I know I sent it to the right restorer.
Joe your are more than welcome buddy I hope you enjoy it as much as I have!
This is by no means a "restoration", people these days have a bad habit of ruining 150 year old antiques- especially these fire alarm boxes with sandblasting, inappropriate super glossy automotive paints applied over a layer of cheap bondo used to fill "defects" and smooth the casting,, ridiculous and unrealistic white or gold paints on details, polishing brass that was never meant to have anything more than painted red, adding on those stupid looking eagle and other finials that have no place on these.
own a number of these boxes, including a 7 foot tall pedestal from NY City, most of them still have their original, authentic, valued paint and patina.
What is a restoration in your terms bud?
“Hobbiest” it’s a mailbox. Mr Letts did a fantastic job and I would recommend him to anyone that needs powder coating and refinishing.
Enjoy all your old patina alarm boxes but know when your gone someone will purchase it or find it in a scrap yard and hopefully send it to Mr. Letts and have it restored to their liking not yours.
BTW my mailman loves it and that’s all I need to know.
Stop throwing shitballs at a hard working veteran.
Sweet setup 4sure gonna be sweet!!
Thanks buddy yeah it's a good one for sure!