Hi Rick, Al's suggestion is a good one. If it is in a very visible area, though, and it is a light scratch, it doesn't have to take that much. The key is in the assessment. If you can look at the scratch and determine what grit sandpaper would remove/match that scratch, that's where you start. Often on the lightest scratches, you can start right off with compounds, rather than sandpaper - then it can be just a matter of 10 or 15 minutes. Even if you have to get into sanding on a small scratch, it doesn't have to take more than 30 minutes or so, but again, assessment is the key. If you start sanding and discover you've guessed wrong and the scratch is still there, move to the next coarser step, until it's out, then work on up through the grits and compounds. William R. Monroe On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 4:45 PM, Al Guecia/Allied PianoCraft < alliedpianocraft at hotmail.com> wrote: > Rich, > > If you don't want to sand and polish it out, there is a way to make it less > visible. Make a single hair brush. Take a dowel that is comfortable in your > hand and drill a small hole in the end. Now take a single hair from a > natural bristle brush and glue it in the hole you drilled in the dowel. Get > some high gloss black lacquer and thin it out to almost water consistency. > Now use the brush you made and follow the scratch line. Be careful to stay > in the scratch and not on the finish. The scratch will still be there, but > much less visible. If you get some on the finish, you can clean it up with > some thinner and try again until you get it in the scratch only. > > Al - > High Point, NC > > > > On Feb 27, 2011, at 5:10 PM, <richarducci at comcast.net> wrote: > > List, is there a way to repair a light scratch on a black poly resin > finish? (samick) > The scratch looks like a white line on this black hp finish. I know > substantial sanding and polishing is usually required, is there another way? > > Rick Ucci/ Ucci Piano > uccipiano.com > > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20110227/8a9b1a7b/attachment.htm>
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