Hi Tim, I have seen cylinders this shiny, not very often. I use my cylinder record shoe brush to clean dirty cylinders and the four minute ones shine up very nicely. I have found this is the best way to clean dirty wax cylinders, rub the same way as the grooves go.
Steve > 2. I thought the cylinder was just a little bit too shiny to be a 90+ >year artifact...Sure, a 78 from that period can have quite a shine, but >it's shellac, not soft wax. > > Dilg uses brown wax for his blanks, doesn't he? Does anybody make black >ones? > > (then again...I collect only 78s...so maybe I'm all wet?) > > tmh > > >--------------------------------- > Yahoo! FareChase - Search multiple travel sites in one click. >_______________________________________________ >Phono-L mailing list >[email protected] > >Phono-L Archive >http://www.oldcrank.org/pipermail/phono-l/
