Sounds like a boy named Sue........
Sounds like a boy named Sue........
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I'm guessing his friends call him Wayne.
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--M. Stillion
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Timothy F. Lewis
"If brains was lard, that boy couldn't grease a very big skillet" J.D. Clampett
I'm pretty sure his momma called him Lucian Wayne.
"It's comparable to playing a cheese slicer."
--M. Stillion
"Bargain instruments are no bargains if you can't play them"
--J. Garber
Here's the tp cover alloy of Loar #75319, silver plating worn off. Nickel silver, indeed. (XRF-measured in mass %.)
Zn 24.4
Cu 56.6
Ni 17.8
Co 0.05
Fe 0.23
Mn 0.18
Pb 0.02
Well, now we just need to have a foundry make some sheet material and find a punch presto make them up with authentic metallurgical content! Engrave and silver plate at your own risk of corporate wrath.
Honestly, thank you Henry the more we know, the more we understand.
Timothy F. Lewis
"If brains was lard, that boy couldn't grease a very big skillet" J.D. Clampett
Sheet nickel silver is readily available and is plenty close enough to the Loar Tailpiece metallurgy. I have hand-made a couple of tailpiece covers out of it. One was a Loar reproduction and the other was an engraved cloud TP for a Martin bowlback. It's not complicated to cut out and bend the material into a tailpiece. And nickel silver is fairly easy to hand engrave. The lettering for "The Gibson" requires some skill and a very sharp engraver. The wiggle work around the edge is fairly easy.Well, now we just need to have a foundry make some sheet material and find a punch presto make them up with authentic metallurgical content! Engrave and silver plate at your own risk of corporate wrath.
Steve
Orcas Island Tonewoods
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"Mandolin Graffiti"
"Mangler Of Bluegrass"
"Overhead At Darrington"
"Electric Mandolin Graffiti"
The tailpiece engraving looks pretty good. If you have more done you could suggest your engraver use a straight edge as a guide for the wiggle work along the straight edges. You can see that yours wanders slightly from being done freehand, and the originals are quite straight. The lettering is pretty nice. The uprights of the letters are a bit wider cuts than the original but that's being picky. Lettering is hard to do and this is a pretty darn good job. I did engrave one of these and if this was my work I'd be satisfied. My 2 cents.I had 4 of these engraved...
Look OK? Be honest...
Steve
Timothy F. Lewis
"If brains was lard, that boy couldn't grease a very big skillet" J.D. Clampett
Spruce, I'm gonna' tell you as a friend, just like I would tell you if you had a piece of parsley stuck to your teeth. That engraving is a bit rough and creeping up on crude. I honestly can't imagine a Loar owner being happy with that as a replacement cover. It might be fine for modern Gibson F-5s that need a replacement but not for a $150,000.00+ instrument. 'just sayin'.
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What is good Phaedrus? and what is not good?, need we ask anyone to tell us these things?
Orcas Island Tonewoods
Free downloads of my mandolin CDs:
"Mandolin Graffiti"
"Mangler Of Bluegrass"
"Overhead At Darrington"
"Electric Mandolin Graffiti"
If I was doing that I would simply forsake the wiggle work and it would look more like the OP's where the wiggle work is apparently worn off.
You're looking to make it look like it's been used anyway, right?
"It's comparable to playing a cheese slicer."
--M. Stillion
"Bargain instruments are no bargains if you can't play them"
--J. Garber
Mike has a good idea. Maybe you could introduce some wear before doing your aging process. I'm wondering if maybe a buffing wheel with some course compound couldn't wear down the wiggle work as well as the lettering to subdue the engraving some.
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What is good Phaedrus? and what is not good?, need we ask anyone to tell us these things?
Exactly. Like the way coins get worn over time rubbing against other coins.
Orcas Island Tonewoods
Free downloads of my mandolin CDs:
"Mandolin Graffiti"
"Mangler Of Bluegrass"
"Overhead At Darrington"
"Electric Mandolin Graffiti"
Reminds me of something I read on a motorcycle forum for "cleaning" the rust from the inside of vintage motorcycle tanks -- the common solution is to coat the inside of the tank with a chemical "liner" which covers and supposedly neutralizes the rust, but doesn't remove the rust. This guy says put some small stones in your tank, put the cap on it, wrap the outside in a couple bath towels secured with string AND, here it is, drumroll please, put the tank in the dryer for a couple hours (low or no heat). Supposedly, the stones will remove every speck of rust and the inside will look like it is chrome plated. The guy added, don't try this on your wife's dryer as it is deafening to be around. Go to the laundromat, put a couple hours worth of quarters in it, then wait in your car......
Last edited by Jeff Mando; Apr-19-2017 at 1:06pm.
You could probably do what reloaders do to clean brass casings. Use a rotating tumbler filled with ground walnut shells (or a more coarse/gritty medium, if desired). Turn it on and check it periodically to see how much wear it's applying. Granted, it will wear everything fairly evenly, not like a "real world" wear pattern. But it's easy to control and monitor.
Keep that skillet good and greasy all the time!
Orcas Island Tonewoods
Free downloads of my mandolin CDs:
"Mandolin Graffiti"
"Mangler Of Bluegrass"
"Overhead At Darrington"
"Electric Mandolin Graffiti"
OK, here's what they look like after the first round of antiquing...
Much better than "before"...
Orcas Island Tonewoods
Free downloads of my mandolin CDs:
"Mandolin Graffiti"
"Mangler Of Bluegrass"
"Overhead At Darrington"
"Electric Mandolin Graffiti"
Getting there....
Timothy F. Lewis
"If brains was lard, that boy couldn't grease a very big skillet" J.D. Clampett
Orcas Island Tonewoods
Free downloads of my mandolin CDs:
"Mandolin Graffiti"
"Mangler Of Bluegrass"
"Overhead At Darrington"
"Electric Mandolin Graffiti"
There was a product I used decades ago to rust, and I mean rust, the out side of a muzzle loader to make it look older. Works fast and very well. You may try a gun shop that specializes in vintage muzzle loaders to make it go faster. Most likely some kind of acid bath. It washed off with water though.
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