this is just an opinion - and at the end of the day, it's YOUR possession and you can do what you please with it. so, having said that:
i never polish my horns. i like patina. it's an old object and deserves to look its age, and if you polish part of it without making everything else as-new, it's just somehow not...right. with the Columbia nickel horns, they often are found with a tinted clear lacquer coating. my columbia BO has one with a most lovely greenish tint. quite subtle but nice. i could strip that and have a mirror-finish horn, but i prefer not to. early on in my collecting, i polished a "dirty" orthophonic tonearm. took off the nasty lacquer top coat and most of the gold, too. so now it's a lovely brass color, and i feel like a sap. and the lesson is, you never know how thin or thick that plating is. and originality is priceless and irretrievable when lost. but again, that's just my opinion. On Dec 22, 2003, at 5:02 PM, Charles Haynes wrote: > Hi > I went to the local Flea market this last weekend and got a very nice > Columbia BH Disc graphophone. I was lucky and was at the right spot as > it was coming out of a van. It belonged to a little old lady who told > me it had always been in her house, and had originally belonged to her. > mother. It is in wonderful condition and the nickel petal horn is > nearly flawless. Has anyone ever polished one of these, what did you > use? ... > Thanks and Happy Holidays to all > Charles Haynes > > -- Peter [email protected]
