Yes, buying the cloth (let alone the complete grilles which I've done three times now - two pokerworks and a corso) from Charlie is pricey. Of course those will be ones I will keep for my boxes. I didn't realize it would clean up that nice with steel wool. That cloth looks right proper!! Thanks again Lester. I can spend hours on your channel!
I found fabric spray glue works well for this job, at least on a couple 12 base accordions I’ve been restoring. I love your videos by the way. Lots of helpful tips
Interesting to hear which cloth you use, proper stuff very expensive, when i did one i soaked in a rust buster at work to get rid of rust inside as well, but it wasn't a stinky acid one it was water based one by Safety Kleen Company. Great films, thank you so much.
Unfortunately buttons on old boxes are very hard to clean up, they are made from casein (milk protein) which doesn't age well. More info here forum.melodeon.net/index.php/topic,1364.0.html
Hi Lester, I have an old pre-corona and it appears that the grill is nailed on with tiny nails all around. Is that how older grills were attached or am I overlooking something?
Lester Bailey After spending much longer than I care to admit staring at tiny nails, I am 99% certain that they’re indeed nails, not screws. It looks like there is 8 nails on one side and 6 nails with two empty hardware slots on the other
Yes, buying the cloth (let alone the complete grilles which I've done three times now - two pokerworks and a corso) from Charlie is pricey. Of course those will be ones I will keep for my boxes. I didn't realize it would clean up that nice with steel wool. That cloth looks right proper!! Thanks again Lester. I can spend hours on your channel!
Looks good!
I found fabric spray glue works well for this job, at least on a couple 12 base accordions I’ve been restoring. I love your videos by the way. Lots of helpful tips
Interesting to hear which cloth you use, proper stuff very expensive, when i did one i soaked in a rust buster at work to get rid of rust inside as well, but it wasn't a stinky acid one it was water based one by Safety Kleen Company. Great films, thank you so much.
Do you have any advice for cleaning up grimy old (1920-30s) buttons, the ones on your subject melodeon already look nice and clean
Unfortunately buttons on old boxes are very hard to clean up, they are made from casein (milk protein) which doesn't age well. More info here
forum.melodeon.net/index.php/topic,1364.0.html
Do you use the same glue when replacing the cloth on the bass holes?
Yep
Hi Lester, I have an old pre-corona and it appears that the grill is nailed on with tiny nails all around. Is that how older grills were attached or am I overlooking something?
I have only ever seen screws, are you sure that what you are seeing are not fine slot head screws with the slot filled with the muck of age
Lester Bailey After spending much longer than I care to admit staring at tiny nails, I am 99% certain that they’re indeed nails, not screws. It looks like there is 8 nails on one side and 6 nails with two empty hardware slots on the other