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Emblem BUFFET

Author: fmarq
Date: 2003-05-20 17:54

My emblems (pictures of the mark BUFFETT)BUFFETT CRAMPON marked on my R13 clarinet they are to disappear... What can I do to protect this ?

Thank you very much

Fernando Marques

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Re: Emblem BUFFET

Author: Ralph G
Date: 2003-05-20 18:04

See previous threads on the topic at:

http://test.woodwind.org/clarinet/BBoard/read.html?f=1&i=94464&t=94464

http://test.woodwind.org/clarinet/BBoard/read.html?f=1&i=27517&t=27486

http://test.woodwind.org/clarinet/BBoard/read.html?f=1&i=31475&t=31401

Hope this helps.

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Re: Emblem BUFFET

Author: KENOLD
Date: 2003-05-21 01:38

I saw (more than a few years ago on PBS I think) a book binder applying gold leaf to the edges of the pages of a book. All of the pages of the book were held together and the gold leaf was burnished (rubbed) into the the paper. I've seen the results on Bibles. I've wondered if this would work on a clarinet emblem. Anybody ever tried it?

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Re: Emblem BUFFET

Author: ron b
Date: 2003-05-21 03:29

GILDING of books and other relatively flat or curved surfaces is usually done by adhering the metallic material (gold leaf, bronze leaf, Dutch gold etc.) with an adhesive and burnishing it to a shiny finish. EMBOSSING is done by pressure and heat, pressing the metallic leaf (usually bronze) into the object. Picture the old time platten (clamshell) printing press. My best guess is that instruments are heat and pressure embossed. The result of embossing is the metallic image pressed into a depression, as in book covers. The result of burnished gilding is a flat shiny metallic image, although some intricate picture frames and other such objects are sometimes gilded; extremely time consuming. I believe the White House dome is surface gilded (real gold leaf).
The only remedy I know of restoring an instrument's image it to put bronze powder into the depression. Ordinary folks don't have the equipment to apply heat and pressure. Therefore, next-best choice crayons (bronze powder in a drying medium) work reasonably well on some pieces while bronze powder in varnish ('gold' paint) may be the better choice on others - depending on the base material, its condition and other factors. Any way you choose to do it, if you expect a good result, is going to be time consuming.
Embossing without the imaging (leaf) material is called "blind embossing" and that's what most horns are after the gilding's worn away - blind embossed. I don't know of any effective way to prevent this, without causing it to look tacky, other than to never touch the emblem or expose it to the atmosphere.

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