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I've started working on a Caille Grand Prize Jackpot 4-reel machine I picked up a while back.
As you can see, it's in terrible shape and needs restoration.
Under all the paint I can see that the cabinet originally had a green finish.
My question to you guys, the green finish, is it paint or some type of stain?
If anyone has a nice original machine with this green finish, can you see the grain of the wood under the green finish?

Rick

Rick-okc wrote:I've started working on a Caille Grand Prize Jackpot 4-reel machine I picked up a while back.
As you can see, it's in terrible shape and needs restoration.
Under all the paint I can see that the cabinet originally had a green finish.
My question to you guys, the green finish, is it paint or some type of stain?
If anyone has a nice original machine with this green finish, can you see the grain of the wood under the green finish?

Rick

I haven't found any published reference, but an old-time Caille restorer told me that they used a "green aniline dye." If that's true, I figure it's probably this one:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malachite_green

Yes, on every original-green-finished Superior I've seen, the color appears as more of a stain than a paint, with the wood grain clearly showing through the finish. The steel back doors were often painted with a green simulated woodgrain, as if to carry that "look" all the way around.

Marsonion, thanks for the information and link. That was very helpful.

Rick

Rick-okc wrote:Marsonion, thanks for the information and link. That was very helpful.

Rick

You're very welcome, Rick-- but I sincerely hope it actually is helpful information, as it comes to me by word-of-mouth, and I hate having to rely on that for much of anything. Perhaps another forum member can offer some corroboration or refutation from a valid or trusted source. In the meantime, here's a few pictures of the simulated woodgrain backdoor paintjobs.

Thanks for the pictures. That's going to help a lot when I repaint my door.

Rick

marsonion wrote:I haven't found any published reference, but an old-time Caille restorer told me that they used a "green aniline dye." If that's true, I figure it's probably this one:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malachite_green

Yes, on every original-green-finished Superior I've seen, the color appears as more of a stain than a paint, with the wood grain clearly showing through the finish. The steel back doors were often painted with a green simulated woodgrain, as if to carry that "look" all the way around.

Hello Rick.
I agree with Marsonion.
Here is some photos with the "seem to be" the original dye from a Superior (not mine , come from Flebay!).
And the color is in good shape under the wood base , so , as this you have a good idea of how was the original slot machine color.
Hope this helpfull.
And let us know the result when you finish it !!

Stephane

Stephane, thank you my friend.

Rick