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Making Brass Escutcheons
By Don Teach

Making the brass name plates for player pianos is very tedious.  The
easiest way to make them is first get the artwork in very black and very
white.  I them photocopy them onto a special clear acetate that is made
so you can iron the image onto brass.  Now paint the back side of the
brass.  Now drop the brass in a brass etching solution.

Go to your local electronic supply house and tell them you want to make
printed circuit boards.  It's the same principle.  Or get silk-screens
made for the best looking and most detail.  The iron-on's work fairly
well and I made quite a few plates this way for ones that were missing
from my coin pianos.

* Do it outdoors! *  Not in your wife's stainless steel kitchen sink, as
it will also etch a nice pattern in it that I am still hearing about!

I buy most of the chemicals from Kepro at 1-800-325-3878.  The clear
acetate (?) comes from the back of a electronics magazine, and when I
find the name again I will post if anyone cares.  The black background is
plated, not painted, although this has been covered in a previous Digest.

Don Teach
Shreveport Music Co
1610 E. Bert Kouns
Shreveport,  LA  71105
dat-smc@juno.com

P.S.  I found one name for the clear sheets: Techniks Inc.,  tel
908-788-8249.  20 sheets for 30 dollars.  I hope someone besides myself
has the fun I had with it.


(Message sent Fri 5 Sep 1997, 03:33:13 GMT, from time zone GMT-0500.)

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