Yes, Ken, you can, but it takes some time, and depending upon your ability to match the color of the keytop, it will be more or less obvious. One of the challenges is the amount of dirt/grunge in the cracks. To "fix" them, you would basically treat them as a chip - clean them out first, open it up slightly with a very fine file (sometimes I've used a super fine engraving bit on a Dremel tool, fill with the repair mix, sand down and buff out. If you pursue this, I would encourage you to sell them on resurfacing the entire set of keys, else the ones you sand down and buff out with cracks will really stand out. Sometimes I've used a tiny bit of thin CA, applied to the key under the lip at the crack as a prophylactic. William R. Monroe On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 9:20 AM, Ken & Pat Gerler < kenneth.gerler at prodigy.net> wrote: > I have been tuning and working on pianos since 1971 and this is the first > time I have been asked this question. > > The customer has these cracks in the ivory of the keys of this 1948 > Steinway and ask if there is a way to "fix" the cracks without replacing the > keytops? > > Anyone of you have any experience? I know there are kits to repair chips > in ivory but make cracks disappear? > > Thanks in advance, > > Ken Gerler > kenneth.gerler at prodigy.net > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20100831/47e09085/attachment.htm>
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