[Phono-L] Paint for a Maroon Gem

[John Maeder]

One should also keep in mind that these machines are not 'painted', but rather the coating is tinted shellac.

> From: rvuill at comcast.net
> To: phono-l at oldcrank.org
> Date: Tue, 8 Dec 2009 08:33:00 -0500
> 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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