[Hammarlund] Hammarlund SP400SX Front Panel Restoration

[Tisha Hayes]

The only problem I had with the process was in remembering where all of the
lettering was. I suggest taking a picture of the panel before you fill in
the engraving so you have a guide to work with when you use the dental pick
to pop out the plaster.

On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 2:23 PM, <DJED1 at aol.com> wrote:

> Tisha has an interesting approach.  Wish I'd heard of it a year ago,  when
> I
> redid the front panel on a BC-779.  I stripped it down, then used a  brass
> Dremel brush to remove all of the old paint from the engraving.  This  did
> avoid
> the risk of damaging the engraving with a sharp tool.  I found  after
> several
> coats to finish the panel that the engraving was filled, so I  brushed the
> new
> paint out of the engraving and then used a couple of light coats  around
> the
> lettering and a lot of fine sanding to blend all the paint.   When it was
> all
> done and the engraving filled with a paint stick, it looks  great, but it
> was
> a lot of work.
> I thought the SP-400 was stenciled, but  recently someone told me it has
> engraved lettering like the older  Super-pros.
> Ed
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