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Re: Tricky one Adam
In Response To: Tricky one Adam ()

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Thanks for your response mark.

Could you email me at amberesford1987@gmail.com, and I'll happily send a photo to demonstrate the damage.

Thanks for your help,
Adam

I have yet to see a redial where I would have been personally happy
: with the work on a standard dial, let alone one of any personal
: significance.

: Do you have any photos showing the extent of the damage?

: What I would consider is getting a decent stock dial and having the
: refinisher simply apply the McLaren text to that, rather than
: trying to restore an entire damaged dial. It's entirely possible
: that the text was applied after the original dials had been
: printed, rather than being intended as McLaren commemorative
: dials from day 1 anyway, so in this fashion you would be
: replicating part of the original process rather than asking a
: restorer to nail the fine details of a dial that was printed,
: not hand painted. Which they never seem to quite manage
: anyway...

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