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ChrisKane
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Posted: February.07.05 at 5:30pm | IP Logged Quote ChrisKane

Let talk about how to make a dent completely disappear. I can get pretty close, depending on the dent, but fall short when it comes to finishing. So after I have rubed, tapped, burnished, or rolled out the dent as smooth as possible, what are your ways to refinish the worked area?

What I have atempted to do is to buff the area and then lacquer with spray lacquer. Of course then the lacquer doesn't match the original. Then I was told by several other techs to try to match the lacquer by using a torch to darken the lacquer to match. This isn't working, espesially at the edges, where the two lacquers meet.

Thanks for all your help.
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Posted: February.08.05 at 7:50am | IP Logged Quote stevemarti

I haven't seen an invisible finish touch-up yet. I think it just might be impossible. I sure would be intersted in a deonstration that I'm wrong. Sometimes you can make it less noticeable by finishing a whole piece or up to a visual parting line, but invisable?

Don't think so. I warn my customers beforehand it's not going to be invisible. Sometimes 99%, but never invisable.  
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Posted: February.08.05 at 7:37pm | IP Logged Quote ChrisKane

I have never found a way to make it perfectly disappear. However, when I get ready to buff away the last evidence of the dent, I put masking tape around the entire area I plan to buff, then buff in a direction so that the wheel hits the tape before the horn (to help keep it from peeling off). While you will still have a line, you can use the tape to decide exactly where you want the line to be, and I think a straight line looks a heck of a lot better than the wavy, patchy spots I get without masking.

Hope this helps,

this was submited by funkydrumer7, and used with his permission
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Posted: February.08.05 at 7:43pm | IP Logged Quote ChrisKane

thanks steve and funky, maybe it is imposible but I like the idea of the strait lines.  
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Posted: March.15.05 at 10:03am | IP Logged Quote NealAnderson

I've had some luck matching laquer by using gold laquer and clear fingernail polish.
Sometimes I can sprad a bit of gold laquer into it's cap and use the thinnest clear fingernail polish I can find to blend with it to make the color the right shade.
It doesn't match perfectly most of the time, but it's the closest solution I've found.
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Posted: March.15.05 at 10:07am | IP Logged Quote NealAnderson

Sometimes, on silver plate, it is possible to buff through the scarring if the dent wasn't bad.
Shape can be restored perfectly, but the scar will remain.
Even when you're successful at buffing the scar out, the scar is still there (in a density vs porosity sense).
I usually don't try too agressively to remove scars.
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Posted: September.05.06 at 2:39am | IP Logged Quote misel

What I learned, is that you could take a fine wet and dry paper and sand the rest of the dent away. Of course it will take some materiel away which is not good, but when you want to get rid of the dent completely, it could be a solution.

Just be sure that you first take so much of the dent away as possible by dent balls, tapping, burnishing etc. before you start to sand.
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Posted: December.31.08 at 3:36pm | IP Logged Quote niers1

IF you have a GOOD paint blend shop for auto finishes, they may be able to mix you a small amount of tinted lacquers in several shades. It's not cheap but you'll have the numbers that come close on specific jobs for future reference. It will help ALOT if you know whst is already on the piece you are working on.More sophisticated shops can determine what is on the piece.
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