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Victor M Brought Back From the Brink
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Joe Busam
- Victor Jr
- Posts: 47
- Joined: Thu Feb 21, 2013 12:27 pm
- Personal Text: Victor V
- Location: Cincinnati, Ohio USA
Re: Victor M Brought Back From the Brink
Beautiful job. How did you replicate the columns? I own a Victor M that I bought back in 1966 and it's missing a couple of the columns. Would love to get them replaced. Thanks.
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Couch Potato
- Victor I
- Posts: 136
- Joined: Fri Oct 02, 2009 4:36 pm
- Location: Fort Worth
Re: Victor M Brought Back From the Brink
One place to try is victroladoctor.com they offer replacment columns for the various Victor out side horn models. They are good quality. Tricky thing with replacement items such as these is getting the stain and finish to match the 100 year old wood. I just tinker with darker stains and or combinations of stains along with tinkering with the tint in the shellac to match as best as possible.
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Bob
- Victor II
- Posts: 207
- Joined: Wed Feb 15, 2012 7:27 pm
- Location: Long Island, NY
Re: Victor M Brought Back From the Brink
The plate on my Vic II is all black. I would like to redo it like that. I don't know anybody that plates. Do you think this guy would be interested in plating mine or know where I can send it.
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FloridaClay
- Victor VI
- Posts: 3708
- Joined: Wed Jan 26, 2011 7:14 pm
- Location: Merritt Island, FL
Re: Victor M Brought Back From the Brink
There are plating places most everywhere that can do nickel. I use a local shop that plates auto and motorcycle parts.
Clay
Clay
Arthur W. J. G. Ord-Hume's Laws of Collecting
1. Space will expand to accommodate an infinite number of possessions, regardless of their size.
2. Shortage of finance, however dire, will never prevent the acquisition of a desired object, however improbable its cost.
1. Space will expand to accommodate an infinite number of possessions, regardless of their size.
2. Shortage of finance, however dire, will never prevent the acquisition of a desired object, however improbable its cost.
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Joe Busam
- Victor Jr
- Posts: 47
- Joined: Thu Feb 21, 2013 12:27 pm
- Personal Text: Victor V
- Location: Cincinnati, Ohio USA
Re: Victor M Brought Back From the Brink
Thanks for the lead. I'll check them out. The name plate on my M is solid brass with no black enamel. It was like that when I bought it.Couch Potato wrote:One place to try is victroladoctor.com they offer replacment columns for the various Victor out side horn models. They are good quality. Tricky thing with replacement items such as these is getting the stain and finish to match the 100 year old wood. I just tinker with darker stains and or combinations of stains along with tinkering with the tint in the shellac to match as best as possible.