Quote Originally Posted by GM View Post
Lacquer was the preferred coating with Ga. cabinet, furniture manufacturers until EPA stopped them in the late '70s IIRC, but no clue about Ca. other than such changes originated there.
And in fact I looked through the Badmaieff and Davis book a bit more. In one of the other chapters, they talk about using a laquer finish. The 820 cabinets only came in blond or mahongany. So I think we can safely say it is a "mahogany laquer" finish.