Alembic Guitars Club
Connecting => Miscellaneous => Topic started by: Eric1616 on April 01, 2018, 09:36:56 AM
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I’d like to carefully touch up the gold writing (“Alembic”) that’s worn off one of my pickups. Any ideas? Thanks!
Eric.
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There are pens with metallic 'ink'... not sure how they would work in practice, but I bet somebody else here has tried this.
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The decoration is with a hot stamp and gold foil. I'm not sure you can make a suitable restoration other than just sanding off the face entirely and going blank.
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Ahoy,
I found a way with Google, but I don't know how fun this will be. Like Mica has said, it is basically the applique (accent aigu) of thin gold foil onto a prepared, raised surface that has a gold embedded adhesive on it (a "raised guilding" technique, I think they called it). Maybe put a thin layer of the adhesive on a flat metal surface, cover the letters with aqueous primer, repeat, and then apply the gold foil really carefully?
But, what the heck do I know, though? I can't even frost a cake.
Good luck, and I hope if nothin' else, these links might give you a place to look next for a workable answer-
Raised letters: https://www.calligraphy-skills.com/gold-leaf-technique.html
Gold leaf and gold leaf paint techniques: http://homeguides.sfgate.com/apply-gold-leaf-embossed-surfaces-89758.html
Cheers,
-Zut