So Dale, did you end up using generic epoxy primer fill - or does it have a name?!?!?! I'm very interested in what you used and how easy it was to apply and sand to a fair surface. Looks real nice. Oh, but you forgot to put that black goop on the bridge top! (Sorry to tell you that now after it's already been strung ;-) Terry Farrell On Jan 4, 2011, at 11:02 AM, Dale Erwin wrote: > Last month I posted about a plate that had a flaking finish. So > after suggestions by many of you we had the plate sandblasted last > and did an epoxy primer fill. > Jacob and I did 3 coats of it filling in rough spots in the > casting in between the first 2. After sssssssanding everything flat > the 3 coat on went on quite smoth. > A final sanding and then the usual acrylic top coat with bronzing > powders gold. This followed by 3 clear coats. the string > no,serial no are applied before the last clear coat. Finally we > lettered the embossing. It turned out quite stellar. The epoxy > primers are beautiful to work with. I would not hesitate to do this > again. It will by necessity be a more expensive process depending on > what your blaster charges and the primer is about 50 bucks. There is > several more hours of labor too so it is not a cheap trick. > That said it is a 1911 Steinway B getting everything and was > necessary. > Thanks especially to Greg Newell as well as the other suggestions > by all for help. > 2 more picture are coming -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20110105/258b203b/attachment.htm>
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