Can You Repair A Chip On A Speaker With Black Gloss Finish

I've been offered a set of B&W CM8's in black glass finish, but they have a couple of chips in the laquer on one side of the left hand speaker. The chips have been caused by leaning the speaker against a glass shelf. There are 3 of them, pretty small but pretty noticeable, even from a distance.

The price is tempting as these would usually be well outside my price range - but I'll only purchase if I know I can get the chips repaired at a reasonable cost.

Has anyone had experience of high gloss speaker/furniture repair ? Could they be repaired to 'as-new' finish ?

Any advice apperciated.

Steve

It may not be perfect but you could consider one of those touch up pens used for cars. Cheap and would at least from a distance take the attention away from the chips.

Do the chips show a different color underneath, or is it white on white?

If you simply want to hide the darker under color, then some VERY CAREFULLY applied white paint is probably good enough.

But if you goal is "as good as new" that gets complicated. The holes/dents/chips in the outer finish will have to be filled, prime, and professionally repainted. Then to get a prefect gloss match, it will probably have to be polished smooth. 'Don't notice' is a lot easier than 'good as new'.

Also be aware that "white paint" is far more complex that simply being 'white'. There are many shades and tones of white paint, and even then you put pure white on pure white, there is no guarantee of a perfect match.

So, this gets back to "don't notice" vs "good as new".

Personally, if the price was right, I would touch it up and say 'good enough'. I'm more interested in perfect sound than in perfect looks.

Just a thought.

Steve/bluewizard

Thanks gents.

I think that the price is too good to ignore, regardless of the superficial damage.

Hopefully I'll be the proud owner of them first thing tomorrow.

You might also consider touch-up for black patent leather shoes. This is a high gloss brush-on liquid available in shoe shops (surprise). But this would come under the "disguise the blemish" category; I doubt you could make an invisible repair without having the whole cabinet refinished.

You can make these repairs invisible without re-doing the whole, but it will take a fair bit of time and effort. You need some super smooth filler, there is some stuff car body repairers use that comes in a sort of toothpaste tube (the stuff I have used is green), and the finest sand paper you can find. Use the paper to flatten off the fill, then use the flat paper to get a flat finish with no grain on it. Then you need some gloss black touch up paint or what ever is available and touch over the filled area so its invisible. Once thats done you need to buff it to make the repair spray invisible, and use something like T-cut on it while buffung.

It takes a bit of time and skill to get it perfect though. They do it on car repairs all the time, so it is possible.

If you need a black shellac finish, much like the finish on Japanese woodwork.
Then just get hold of some old 78rpm records ( the brittle ones ) and break em up.
Once broken up stickem in a pot and pour metho onto em.
They will melt down and you simply brush the goop onto your work.
As usual you will try this on a test peice first. :eek:
I have never tryed this but look for black shellac finish on google you should find somthing
You can buy shellac sticks in some colours and rub it in to th nicks and polish it back
Tony