Poshed up Olympia SM carrying case

I saw people remove paint from these and expose beautiful plywood from underneath rather boring, hammered-enamel gray paint.

The paint on my box was already partially scrapped, exposing promising beech-wood plywood.

I decided to remove all the outside paint. One on the inside is still in pristine shape - still nicely pretending to be metal.
Hot-air gun and scraper make the job very easy and assures that only paint is removed, not plywood.

Hand-sanded and vacuumed it looks much nicer already.

I especially like these streamlined shapes, as on sports car from 70´

I decided to keep the wood unstained. I like this case to be in lighter color, in contrast to all others which tend to be dark or totally black.

Woodworkers favorite moment: oiling! Brings out wood grain beautifully.

All hardware screwed back in place.

Handsome piece of office equipment!