Mellotronists

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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