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Originally Posted by bigaggietrumpet Anyway, the main thing stopping me is the fact that they'd have to remove a lot of metal to replate it, and I don't really wanna change the way this horn plays. |
What metal are you thinking would have to be removed? Is the horn so pitted that you think the whole thing would require extensive buffing? Or are you thinking the silvery stuff would need to be buffed off before new plating could be applied?
If you're thinking the latter, and if your Studio is a pre-Fullerton two-tone one, then stop. Thinking about removing metal, that is. The silvery stuff is solid nickel silver, not nickel plating. The two are not the same. Nickel silver is an alloy of copper, zinc, and nickel, and the LA Studio bell flare is nickel silver through and through. Nickel plate is pure nickel plated over a base metal. There's a lot of confusion over this, but nickel silver and nickel plate are two completely different things.