Gumwood is a good, strong wood with tight, close grain. It's used in household interiors for such things as door casings, baseboards and other things. It's a good wood for cabinets. It's one of several woods, known as "whitewoods". It's cheaper than the decorative woods, as walnut, mahogany or oak. It's often the base wood that veneers wre glued on to.
You will find that whitewoods, such as basswood and gumwood will not take ordinary stains, so it's easy to add aniline dyes to the shellec or lacquer, and spreay the finish on the bare whitewood. It can be mad to look like any wood you'd ever want. ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, April 14, 2006 5:44 PM Subject: [Phono-L] Edison B-19 And Matching Gumwood Cabinet > Hi All, > > Some years back we purchased a table top Edison B-19, Chalet model also > called Bungalo. Both the Edison D.D. phonograph and the record cabinet are > made > of gumwood. > The record cabinet with a 36 record file for diamond discs records was > made > exclusively by Haag and Bissex of Philadelphia with a patent date of Jan. > 4, > 1916. > > I have always had some questions that needed answered about this set. > > Did Edison make many different style phonograph wooden cases of gumwood? > Were the record cabinets made just to match his B-19 phonographs or > others? > Did Haag and Bissex make other furniture made of gumwood? > Does anyone have any information on Haag & Bissex fron Phila? > Where did gumwood come from, what country? > > AND, with a note I passed saved in my Edison B-19, the phono came with a > light green silk fabric for the grill cloth, where can I find something > close to > this? > Phonograph really needs a new grill cloth! > > Any help with any of these questions would be much appreciated. > > Thanks, > Joan > _______________________________________________ > Phono-L mailing list > [email protected] > > Phono-L Archive > http://phono-l.oldcrank.org/archive/ > > Support Phono-L > http://www.cafepress.com/oldcrank >
