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Evaporust is acid
no it's been brush, I done it to many times.. nothing bad about that that is why all the hi points shinny
I'd strip to bare metal do a very very thick Black.. Hi light all the embossing on the base. then look for the magnetic stencils. until you find enough that you like to do a design in gold, use paint pens ( magic markers ultra fine tip ) to fill in the colors.. then clear coat.
O and put your name on it
yes it's a 1880's. maybe late 70's
It's funny, I must have known that Evaporust was acid, I did read the label - but I usually think of acid as something that will do destruction to my hands and such and ER doesn't.
I don't know at this point how in depth I'd get with recreating it... I think it would be a display piece after I cleaned it up - maybe for use in the quilt guild talks I'd like to do more of... As it is, the french polishing is taking forever, so I don't know if I'd want to redo this machine.