Sandblasting piano plates

Charles E Faulk cfaulk2@juno.com
Mon, 23 Jul 2001 21:46:48 -0500


That's encouraging, Joe. What about the agraffes? Should I mask them off?

Charles

On Mon, 23 Jul 2001 16:56:33 -0700 "Joseph Alkana"
<josephspiano@home.com> writes:
> Charles,
> I'm afraid I don't qualify as an expert, but for what it's worth I 
> recently did two plates using sandblasting. I touched up the rough 
> spots with body putty, used liberal coats of red metal primer 
> followed up with my gray undercoats and then final bronzing 
> powder/lacquer finish. Works for me.
> Joseph Alkana  RPT
> josephspiano@home.com
>   ----- Original Message ----- 
>   From: Charles E Faulk 
>   To: pianotech@ptg.org 
>   Sent: Monday, July 23, 2001 10:57 AM
>   Subject: Sandblasting piano plates
> 
> 
>   Seems like I followed a thread on sandblasting a few months ago, 
> so
>   forgive me if I repeat a query.
> 
>   Has anyone had any experience with sandblasting piano plates in
>   preparation for finishing? I'm tired of dealing with contamination 
> on old
>   plate finishes and thought this might offer a solution.
> 
>   Thanks in advance.
> 
>   Charles Faulk
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