Klarinet Archive - Posting 000820.txt from 1999/08

From: Roger Shilcock <roger.shilcock@-----.uk>
Subj: Re: [kl] RE:German silver
Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 04:08:49 -0400

Thanks - that's interesting. I wonder why that isn't done on cutlery?
(Cutlery I can afford, at least...).

Roger S.

On Thu, 26 Aug 1999 DPhilpot@-----.com wrote:

> Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1999 15:06:09 EDT
> From: DPhilpot@-----.com
> Reply-To: klarinet@-----.org
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> Subject: Re: [kl] RE:German silver
>
> Roger: a bit more information about what the repair people may be seeing when
> the Buffet key plating wears off. Buffet does a copper "pre-plating" before
> the nickel plating goes on the keys. This is apparently because some of the
> earlier plating rippled and came off too easily. When the current process of
> plating wears off a Buffet key, there is a halo-like copper rim around the
> worn part. When I asked about the red rim around the worn places on a Buffet
> some years ago, I was told by Boosey/Buffet about this pre-plating process.
> Doug Phillips
>
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