Doug - no, I was just saying I want to get the finish back to a black color! I didn't realize there's an automotive product called Back to Black! Thanks much for your comments and pointers. Paul On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 9:31 PM, Douglas Gregg <classicpianodoc at gmail.com>wrote: > Paul, > If you are thinking about using black tinted auto polish like Back to > Black, I dis-recommend it. It is not very black and it will fill the > scratches with grey wax that will not look much better than the > scratches. If you are willing to spend 30 minutes and impress this new > customer and likely get some referrals for other similar jobs, I would > fine sand it out and polish it. It will look great with not that much > effort. > > I have gotten a lot of easy finish repair work by doing just that. In > fact, after doing a French polish repair on an upright S&S, the owner > asked me to do dent and scratch work and French polish on 14 antiques > in her house. That was a full days work but paid better than most > piano work. > > It looks like I will be doing a workshop in Seattle on French > polishing. stay tuned. > > Doug Gregg > Classic Piano Doc > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20110907/ca1ba07e/attachment.htm>
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