Harpsichord Repair V

I worked on cleaning up the keyboard today.  The keys had some sort of lacquer on them.  I used paint stripper to soften it up and then scraped with a razor blade.

After cleaning all of the "white" keys, I had to figure out how to clean the black ones.  They too had some sort of coating on them.  The issue here is that they are plastic and I cannot use the paint stripper on them.  After a small test, it looks like the buffing wheel is the best thing to polish them up.

Before

After

Here is the keyboard all cleaned and polished.  I will most likely put a nice clear coat on the "white" keys before final assembly.

Before

After

A couple more Before shots.