John, a question. 
What do u do with the inside of the pinball cabinet. As i like to call it "under the hood".
Alot of people do not bother under here except a wipe out. Personally, i like to see the wood brought back to new with a sand then clear applied over the top making the inside have that fresh vanilla pine wood look, with only the top part sprayed factory black. Obviously, all metal parts brought up to look like new or at least cleaned up.
I think there is nothing better than when you lift a playfield and look into a cabinet that looks very very fresh. What do you do, and do u have any before and after pictures inside a cabinet.
kind regards, Brett
There seem to be at least 2 schools of thought on cabinet insides - either try to get the floor and sides clean as a whistle and repaint the inside and try to get the overspray perfect as original etc, or paint the whole works and forget about overspray.
I don't care for the 'paint the entire inside black' method, but I can see why some folks go that route. I like the floor to have the original wood look, nice and clean etc. One challenge on CFTBL is how much of the inside is painted black from the factory - I am pretty sure that has to do with the projector for the hologram.
This game had the cabinet farmed out to a good friend who is a master of all things wood. The game led a VERY rough life - basically was worn out in Germany, and then was sent to Croatia where it was abused further. The game was dropped, drilled, banged up, etc so many different ways. And equally amazing is how well the cabinet was restored, with I'd guess 97 to 98% original wood!
This was important to me, as the prototype game had some neat details - like having the transformer moved early on, because the transformer got in the way of the projector beam. Yeah, I could've put a new floor in and drilled 2 sets of transformer holes etc, but I'd know it wasn't original.
I'll make a post outlining the cabinet repairs shortly :)
