[Jukebox-list] Flecking an AMI F or G Series Cabinet

[Jackie]

Aaron,
those are beautiful!  I am partial to the Red, very nice,
Jackie

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Aaron Heverin" <aaron at vertasource.com>
To: "Jukebox mailing list" <jukebox-list at lists.netlojix.com>
Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2007 3:29 PM
Subject: Re: [Jukebox-list] Flecking an AMI F or G Series Cabinet


> Hi David
> I actually NEVER did the green, the light blue, or the yellow. When I 
> started working on these things, I had quite a few of them in a warehouse 
> from which to pick and choose to restore. After taking a look at the 
> yellow and green, I made an oath that I would try to keep as far away from 
> those two colors as possible. I actually had a customer come to me wanting 
> the yellow but I played it smart. Before I spent $60 on a single gallon of 
> the paint, I had a small pint made up. I had a local paint shop where 
> colors were matched by the eyes and skill of the proprietor. I removed a 
> piece of wood from the yellow cabinet and had the paint guy match it. It 
> was DEAD on. He even took into consideration how the paint on my sample 
> would have aged over 50 years...so the color he came up with was 
> vibrant!!!
>
> I took this pint and sprayed it on a 5 x 4 piece of plywood that I sanded 
> smooth. I then flecked it grey then black. After finishing it, all I could 
> say was "Hmmmmmmm." I called my customer to look at it and he did the 
> exact same thing...."Hmmmmmm." However, sitting right next to the yellow 
> sample was a nearly finished F-120 that I had painted Firecracker Red. The 
> customer freaked out on that and promptly told me to toss out the yellow.
>
> Here's the rest of the story. I had a bad habit of not writing down the 
> color codes of all of my custom jukebox paints. After doing so many, and 
> always going back to the same paint guy to get the paint, I figured that 
> since HE kept a file on me, he would always know my colors. I could simply 
> call up and say that I need another gallon of Firecracker Red or Atoll 
> Coral and within an hour, there it was. After a while, I DID write down 
> the coral and red colors, but the yellow was lost...because one day, the 
> veterinarian office located right next door to the paint shop decided to 
> build a new complex. In doing so, they started to bulldoze their old 
> building into the ground. Also in doing so, they weakened the wall that 
> was shared with the vet's section of the building and the paint shop. So 
> one day, the entire wall of the shop came crashing in, bringing most of 
> the building down with it. The guy lost everything INCLUDING his files and 
> the treasured notebook of paint formulas for hi
> s customers.
>
> So now the only colors I have are for the red and coral. Which, by the 
> way, is a heavy duty, furniture grade paint. It's designed to be on 
> surfaces that will be handled, touched, or bumped into with regularity. 
> It's a Muralo paint and it works very well through a sprayer as long as 
> it's deluted slightly. The fleck colors I had on the yellow cabinet were 
> grey and black.
>
> Dave, unless you're loving that yellow, please consider painting your 
> G-200 Firecracker Red. Here's some pictures of an F and a G I did in both 
> the red and coral. Unfortunately, the Coral F pictures were taken with a 
> very cheap digital camera and the pictures are not very sharp.
>
> www.buffalohistoryworks.com/ami
>
> Aaron Heverin
>
>
>
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