FriscoT06
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- May 2, 2011
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- Minelab Excalibur II (retired), Minelab X-Terra 505
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- Shipwrecks
Found some things at a demolished house site in the woods, including 5 buckles in one hole! One was from a pair of Gantner WIKIES swim trunks from the '30s-40's, so I went back today to find the other half of the buckle with the surfer on it and did! It was under a nail in a hole a foot from the other buckles. It still had yarn from the belt in it! Also found an old ad online from 1937 that says- 'To get "the swim suit of the champions" . . look for the surfrider buckle!' Glad I did!
Anyone know how to stabilize the bubble in the top right corner? It has a thin grocery bag plastic consistency to it. There is also slight bubbling to the edges of the buckle. Did they heatshrink some kind of chrome plastic coating on these things? I was considering hitting it with a blowdryer to find out if that would help, or popping the bubble and then clear coating or resin over the whole buckle. I just don't want a gross patch of brass to show through and have that coating peel off like on the larger buckle in the pic. Here's a pic after a light acid wash (to get rusty dirt off) and toothbrushing-
Before the scrub and iron out-
Also the cool vintage ad-
Anyone know how to stabilize the bubble in the top right corner? It has a thin grocery bag plastic consistency to it. There is also slight bubbling to the edges of the buckle. Did they heatshrink some kind of chrome plastic coating on these things? I was considering hitting it with a blowdryer to find out if that would help, or popping the bubble and then clear coating or resin over the whole buckle. I just don't want a gross patch of brass to show through and have that coating peel off like on the larger buckle in the pic. Here's a pic after a light acid wash (to get rusty dirt off) and toothbrushing-
Before the scrub and iron out-
Also the cool vintage ad-
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