Fred, I have a scotchbrite wheel that fits on my polisher. It will generally take the finish off quickly and leaves a nice smooth finish behind. I make sets of ebony sharps and don't put a finish on them other than this burnishing with the wheel. Karen On Dec 13, 2007 6:53 AM, Fred Sturm <fssturm at unm.edu> wrote: > Yesterday I had an unfortunate experience cleaning keytops. Yamaha > C-2 about 20 years old. The sharps (wooden) had a good bit of buildup > of the gray goo, so I was fairly liberal with the Cory KeyBrite. Got > done, looked back to admire my work, and found it had raised a very > thin clear finish on the sharps - blistered so as to look somewhat > white. > Has anyone been down this road and found a good fix? I'm thinking I > have to remove this light, glossy, clear finish, and don't want to > disturb what's underneath. I'm assuming that this is probably not real > ebony, and that even if it is, it has a black spray coating of some > sort. I thought of just buffing with 0000 wool, and emulated that with > a square of ScotchBrite I had handy. Doesn't seem like a good way to > go. So I am thinking I'll either experiment with solvents (possibly > spray a solvent in hopes of re-amalgamating - foolish hope) or sand > carefully. But perhaps someone has come up with a better plan. > Regards, > Fred Sturm > University of New Mexico > fssturm at unm.edu > > > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/caut.php/attachments/20071213/43ee4f4c/attachment.html
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