Is that your shop @Mcgyver?Here is a couple I did. As best I could tell the furniture repair wax stuff is about the same stuff as engravers black (which is often suggested). Lots of details here: https://www.metallum.shop/2022/02/23/blackening-graduated-dials/.
This was is well suited to plated dials, like the ones shown (i.e. the satin finish) or otherwise finish you don't want to wreck as no abrasives are used to clean off the excess
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Fantastic stuff there. Going to be spending time reading. Thanks!It is, 35 years of collecting, reconditioning and making.![]()
We are not worthy (kneeling and bowing)It is, 35 years of collecting, reconditioning and making.![]()
I've often wondered about this. Why not the most tenacious, toughest (maybe even catalyzed) paint you can lay your hands on? Its basically filling a thin scribe line groove, curing & revealed when the dial surface is re-finished anyways?As best I could tell the furniture repair wax stuff is about the same stuff as engravers black (which is often suggested).
It is, 35 years of collecting, reconditioning and making.![]()
@Mcgyver I'm going to call you out here. How can one man accumulate, repair and restore all those beautiful machines in only 35 years! Either you've found the Fountain of Youth, you're an immortal, or maybe a vampire! Which is it?![]()
like the ones shown (i.e. the satin finish)