Name:    Wayne Petrosko
Email:   wpetros@alleghenyenergy.com  
Subject: hd 130 212 faceplate
Thread:  232
Time:    Wed, 31 Oct 2001 12:23:25 UTC

joe, you may want to restore teh face plate yourself. i've done it and had results that were hard to tell from an absolute factory original. i tried MoJo music for the same thing when i was restoring my 65-reverb. i can tell you their answer to your question. that's why i restored myown. it's easy:
1) soak the logo plate in some very high quality laquere thinner and while saoking go over it with a hard brisseled tooth brush.
2) after it has dried, take some 600 wet-sand
paper and hold it flat to remove the paint on the raised areas ONLY.
3) (i used the newer emblem style on my restore) lay the logo flat and lightly spray the logo using KRYLON flat black making sure you don't lay ot on too heavy to fill in the textured part of the inside logo but make sure you hit all the sides.
4) once dried, get your 600 wet-sand out again and WET sand only the raised parts..(the guys playing and the name) right down to the bare metal of the log. if you take your time, the metal will shine as if it was
pained gloss silver. rince it off and let ir dry completely.
5) now get some TESTORS DULL COAT from the local hobbie shop and lightly spray the entire logo. when the dull coat dries, it will be really hard to detect the logo you finished with one right off the factory line.


you could try and with a flat hard roller roll Krylon silver over the raised area's but that didn't work well for me. the paint ran down the raies parts and i had to go back to step #1.


give it a try, it work really well for me.


enjoy your restore project, i'm just about finished with mine. see ya'