[Phono-L] Paint for a Maroon Gem
Bob
rvuill at comcast.net
Tue Dec 8 05:33:00 PST 2009
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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