Naim Fraim - is it worth it really?

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Yep… Guess thats an option as well though, perhaps, less aesthetically pleasing.

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Here’s mine…

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1202

Oh I say - that’s rather satisfying! …is your Radikal flush at the front?

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Here you go

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1204

Rather lovely… :ok_hand:t2::+1:t2::blush:

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Need to do some dusting though :grin:

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Indeed :blush:

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1207

What about a very good body shop spraying it gloss Black and clear coat

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That may be worth a try - it’s a one way ticket obviously! …had anybody ever done that?

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Yonks ago I had my ’wood finish’ Thorens TD160 resprayed to black whilst it was being refurbished…still looking ok and going strong…(now with my son in regular use)

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Rather than spray it, get it wrapped, much cheaper and if you ever change your mind, just pull it off and it will be exactly as it is now

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Do you think it would easy to wrap Fraim shelves?

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Wrap? In what? Scuse my ignorance…

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1213

Looks of show cars are wrapped (essentially vinyl) and they can look brilliant if done well.

A good car tint/wrap specialist could wrap any of the shelves or uprights in a Fraim etc :+1:

I have also used good car Bodyshops to repaint or colour match guitar bodies, so they could certainly work the wooden plinth on an LP12 too.

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I think Window Tint might be better. You could do 5% or what’s called Limo Tint. I’m pretty sure though anything applied to the glass will change its resonant characteristics. Could be better could be worse could do nothing.

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Yes and no, it would depend on how well you want the inner cutout wrapping, a good person may do that OK but it can’t really be seen either; the outside should be dead easy

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Now THAT is an interesting concept… High gloss white maybe

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Or you could do something like this -

But it is a bit more permanent than wrapping.

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A good wrapping firm, will find it easy to wrap the fraim and most things actually these days
That is what I would rather than spray it.
I had already considered getting my fraim legs wrapped to match the fact 12 colour, but haven’t bothered to try and sort the right colour as yet

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Yeah, it’s the cut outs that I was thinking could be the problem to do well.