Jamie,
I bet it looks good. Congrats! (By the way, check out the black finish
my cabinet guy put on my MkII when he rebuilt it for me.
(
http://rickblechta.com/Pages/Mellotron.html) It's also very nice and
Martinge claims that it's almost as smooth as his bottom. We've taken
him at his word...
The tootsies were painted black. What you're probably seeing beneath
that is an undercoat/sealant.
However the really cool guys painted theirs to look like a pair of
black, hightop sneakers (trainers for you blokes). I swear I saw this
once when another band we played with had a 400, but for the life of
me, I can't remember who it was. It was definitely a Canadian band, but
past that, I don't know. Sounds stupid, but it was pretty funny at the
time. I didn't have feet on the MkII, but since I played standing up at
that point, it rested on top of two of those old wooden coke cases
which out road crew swiped from a gas station on the Trans-Canada
Highway somewhere in the Ottawa Valley. They still had one of those old
pop coolers that had cold water in them to chill the glass bottles.
Looking back, they should have swiped the whole cooler.
Rick (SFX 10030 -- "Hey! Just what the hell did you do with my coke
cases, anyway?)
On Sunday, July 11, 2004, at 12:52 PM, jamierob54 wrote:
> Finally got my M400 #380 cabinet back from the refinisher, and
> it was worth the wait. It looks brand new, with a white catalytic
> conversion varnish that appears very smooth and... white.
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> Question: What is the original "factory" color of the feet? Mine
> were black, but as I'm sanding them down to repaint, it appears as
> though there is a layer of white underneath the black.
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> -Jamie Robertson
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