Black penetrating dye? What product do you recommend? On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 6:21 AM, Al Guecia/AlliedPianoCraft < AlliedPianoCraft at hotmail.com> wrote: > I agree with William. And if you have a problem with color wear, just > swipe them with some black penetrating dye and buff. They'll look like new. > > Al > > > *From:* William Monroe <bill at a440piano.net> > *Sent:* Monday, November 30, 2009 8:12 AM > *To:* pianotech at ptg.org > *Subject:* Re: [pianotech] Selecting Keytop Replacement > > Matthew, > > If the sharps are in good condition, just clean and buff them and IME, they > will match up just fine. > > William R. Monroe > > > On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 10:10 PM, Matthew Todd <toddpianoworks at att.net>wrote: > >> Good evening, >> >> I will be sending a set of keys to Leon for top/front replacement this >> week. I just wanted to ask your opinions. >> >> The piano is a 1948 Baldwin M. The whites are chipped, some are missing, >> etc. The sharps actually look fairly good. Now, I was first just going to >> request whites only. Leon uses the molded tops/fronts. Then I realized >> that quite possibly when I got them back and matched them up with the sharps >> (which are ebony), the sharps wouldn't look so good, and may look like I >> should of had the sharps replaced as well. >> >> My final conclusion as of now, is to have the off-white German tops/fronts >> and to have the ebony sharps refinished. The refinished definitely won't be >> the high gloss the plastics give. >> >> Is there a particular white key/sharp combo that would look the best? Or >> is this stupid? >> >> Thanks! >> Matthew >> > > -- Duane McGuire 801-830-5858 http://blog.duanemcguire.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20091202/9bf0b186/attachment.htm>
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