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Post by pianolist on Apr 26, 2011 10:24:45 GMT -5
I have read several articles that say to use a white crayon to fill the letters but I find this wipes out of the lettering when you remove the excess. I have also tried the white lacquer sticks that I have used for filling the embossed lettering in clock dials and appliance controls. These also tend to wipe out of the embossing when the excess is removed.
Has anyone found a technique that actually works most of the time? I do see that some of the cylinder's have embossing that is very shallow; those aren't going to fill well. I have thought of playing with White-Out or other typographical error cover products. Has anyone tried these?
Thanks for any help or ideas!
Ron
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Post by maroongem on Apr 26, 2011 12:20:21 GMT -5
Ron,
Welcome to the board! I use white liquid shoe polish made for nurse's shoes. It dries quick and then I carefully buff the surface over the letters with a soft cloth.
Bill
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Post by pianolist on Apr 27, 2011 7:51:33 GMT -5
Thanks for the suggestion! I looked in my shoe polish supplies and I had a bottle of "Sneaker White" for renewing ones sneakers (don't remember buying that!). It works great. I used my finger to apply a rather thick coating of it to the rim, I then waited a minute or two for it to haze over, and then I buffed off the excess. Now I have about a lifetime of work to get all of them so I can read the titles.
Ron
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Post by nefaurora on Mar 17, 2012 20:13:27 GMT -5
Tried the Sneaker white method.. Did not work the greatest...for at least me anyway...The stuff dried way too fast and was a real pain in the butt to get off. But I might still reserve it for Wax cylinders (Early Gold Moulded 2m cylinders) anyway... I'll have to experiment on the 2M wax ones more later..
I have at least found a sure fire method for doing this on Blue Amberols. Use testors white hobby paint - found at any hobby store or Wal-Mart.. Have a small bottle of Ronson Lighter fluid standing by.. What you do is (using the paint), paint over the letters with a small hobby brush and wait about a minute. Then get one of those 500 Napkins pak at Wal-Mart. Put some lighter fluid on the small corner of the napkin. After you paint the letters and wait a minute, Take the napkin with lighter fluid on the corner and wipe it over the letters, and.. Voila! The excess rubs off easy, and let it dry. The lighter fluid evaporates imediately, so I really don't think that there is a danger of any real camphor evaporation here. You are only doing this on the rim anyway, not the playing area..of course. You'll go through a few napkins per cylinder, and It takes about 20 minutes a cylinder once you really get going..but the difference is like night and day...and it works extemely well. The lettering really "pops" and looks almost new when you're done. Also, Clean the brush with the lighter fluid also between each cylinder painting. I've done about 20 cylinders already in my spare time. Now I can read them! I have like 40 more to do.. Oh goody!
More to come!
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Post by matty on Mar 18, 2012 21:24:36 GMT -5
For BA's, I use a white crayon & rub it back & forth over the lettering, then simply wipe off the excess with a dry tissue. This also works on wax cylinders, though I prefer to use sneaker white on those as Im always frightened I'll crack a wax cylinder applying pressure to remove excess crayon from around the top.   |
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Post by maroongem on Mar 21, 2012 16:14:00 GMT -5
I have also used a product called Lacquer Stik (I usually use this to highlight the Japanese markings and pistol serial numbers on my Japanese WWII collection) or you can use a China marker grease pencil. They are inexpensive and the excess on top wipes off easily. It all depends at the time what I have handy.
Many choices to try, it all depends on the availability.
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Post by kirtley2012 on Apr 4, 2012 17:02:25 GMT -5
this is a custom recorded cylinder of the edison advertising record, it is recorded on a original spiral core columbia black wax cylinder which didnt have the title ends so to ensure i know what was on the record i scraped the title in to the edge then to white the cylinder lettering (or cream/off-white in this case!) i just used thick artists paint however wall paint would work just aswell and i got a brush then thickly painted over the title i had scraped into the cylinder then quickly wiped off the excess to ensure it didnt dry as a big blotch of paint on the edge then there you have it, the whiting on a cylinder!, come to think of it you could also use liquid tip-ex! that would probably work better Attachments:
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