Posted by js on May 11, 2002 at 17:14:16:
In Reply to: Re: Re: Re: engraving a silver plated instrument? posted by Klaus on May 11, 2002 at 09:41:57:
Klaus,
Silver plating used to be pretty cheap. (After call, we (Yanks) made dimes and quarters out of it.)
A few years ago, I stripped the (satin) silver plating off of a vintage King sousaphone, and discovered that the brass base metal had not even been buffed (not even sanded)! King just put a ton of silver on the rough brass until the silver smoothed itself out fairly well, and then sand-blasted it.
That was the last (ever!) sousaphone that I stripped the silver to refinish as lacquered brass. NO MORE.