Hi Mike,
It's not the horn that needs paint. There's a big chip on the gear
cover and a couple on the body casting just above the Edison logo. I agree
with you on touchup. If I can't get it perfect I won't do it. The nice
thing about using nail polish is that you can remove it fairly easily
without disturbing the original paint.
Bob
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Stitt" <smst...@gmail.com>
To: "Antique Phonograph List" <phono-l@oldcrank.org>
Sent: Tuesday, December 08, 2009 1:53 PM
Subject: Re: [Phono-L] Paint for a Maroon Gem
Bruce is right.
Napa will mix it and put it in a spray can. However If you get it wrong it
will bug you more, and devalue the horn. If the whole horn needs
repainting
is one thing. Touch up hardly ever works. I'm from the leave it alone
school
and I love the battle scars. I never thought 85 year old women wearing
make
up looked right. Men too. 95% of the time the best care to an antique is
do
nothing. Do nothing you cannot reverse. Love that horn for it's well
earned
patina, imho.
Oldcranky
On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 10:10 AM, Bruce <br...@accoladeeng.com> wrote:
Bob,
Try going to an automotive paint store and having the color of your Gem
matched. I did this for a Maroon Gem with an Acrylic Enamel and you could
not tell the difference under any lighting.
Bruce Peterson
-----Original Message-----
From: phono-l-boun...@oldcrank.org [mailto:phono-l-boun...@oldcrank.org]
On
Behalf Of Bob
Sent: Tuesday, December 08, 2009 5:33 AM
To: Antique Phonograph List
Subject: [Phono-L] Paint for a Maroon Gem
I'm restoring an Edison Maroon Gem. The paint is really in pretty good
shape except for a few chips. Initially I was going to leave them alone
but they are really bugging me. I thought I could find the matching
color
by checking nail polish colors. I found one that looked pretty good
under
the store lighting but in natural daylight it doesn't match. I'm going to
tinker with it to see if I can improve the match by painting lighter
colors
and shades under it. I do this on a piece of sheet metal. I lay down
stripes of different colors and then run a stripe of the color I'm trying
to
adjust across the stripes. I've been able to match the browns used on
Edison Amberola V and VI's pretty closely with this technique. These
were
fairly easy because I had a brown that was close and only had to darken
it
by adding black. With the Maroon nail polish I have the color is too
dark
and probably should be a little redder so I'm not too confident I can get
a
good match. Do any of you know a source for a paint that matches the
Maroon
on Edison Gems? If I can't get a good match I will leave the chips
alone.
Thanks.
Bob V
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