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Edison red Gem complete at last

Posted: Sun Oct 20, 2019 8:41 pm
by kirtley2012
I put a post up a little while ago about this Edison Gem D that I found on Gumtree about 20 minutes away from me, this machine was originally sold in Jarrow, near Newcastle, England which is where I'm from so of course I had to have it, I've since named it the 'Geordie Gem'

it came needing some adjustments but it was missing some parts, least of all the horn and crane, I recently bought an original Gem horn that had quite a lot of surface rust and pitting, it had maybe 5-10% of the paint remaining so it obviously needed repainting so I've painted it into a red horn for the Gem, and made a crane and the Geordie gem is complete for the first time in many years, I'm happy how the horn turned out, though one or two little spots to touch up.
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Re: Edison red Gem complete at last

Posted: Sun Oct 20, 2019 9:57 pm
by Jerry B.
Looks great! Good job. Jerry B.

Re: Edison red Gem complete at last

Posted: Sun Oct 20, 2019 10:44 pm
by cleveland1996
Looks super!! Great Job!!

Re: Edison red Gem complete at last

Posted: Mon Oct 21, 2019 1:15 am
by tomb
That turned out nice ..I like the red gems. Tom

Re: Edison red Gem complete at last

Posted: Mon Oct 21, 2019 3:33 am
by Orchorsol
Wonderful Alex, how satisfying, congratulations!

Re: Edison red Gem complete at last

Posted: Mon Oct 21, 2019 5:44 am
by emgcr
Well done Alex---looks marvelous and the colour is very appealing in my opinion.

Re: Edison red Gem complete at last

Posted: Mon Oct 21, 2019 6:22 am
by kirtley2012
Cheers!, I think I've got the colour fairly close to original, certainly an attractive looking machine

Re: Edison red Gem complete at last

Posted: Mon Oct 21, 2019 7:34 am
by fmblizz
very nice.. great looking little machines..

blizz

Re: Edison red Gem complete at last

Posted: Mon Oct 21, 2019 7:53 am
by Inigo
Very nice, congratulations!

Re: Edison red Gem complete at last

Posted: Mon Oct 21, 2019 10:33 am
by Bruce
Nice job. Great bringing a nice Gem like that back to life.

Bruce