[Phono-L] Paint for a Maroon Gem

[Mike Stitt]

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 <bruce at 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-bounces at oldcrank.org [mailto:phono-l-bounces at 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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