[Phono-L] Paint for a Maroon Gem

[Bob]

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" <smstitt at gmail.com>
To: "Antique Phonograph List" <phono-l at 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 <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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