Polk, a mid 19th century cast iron bench, and preparation work for several pieces of the Aerosmith van. American Pickers is known to plant big-ticket items to help make. Some fans aren't convinced that the Aerosmith find was a real score at all. Metal Revival has also recently restored the cast iron fountain owned by President James K. Some fans think the Aerosmith van was a setup. The band reached out and said they wanted to buy it back after its fixed. It was an old 1964 International Harvester Metro van rotting away in the woods on a Massachusetts property. It flows through my fingers like liquid yet generates minimal dust when blasting.įurthermore, the abrasive consumption was noticeably lower compared to glass abrasives. The original Aerosmith tour van used in the 1970s was found by 'American Pickers'. GMA SoftBlast™ garnet is the most amazing abrasive I’ve ever worked with. The table with original hardware is valued at USD$6,000. He turned the table over to show me the “Made in England” engraving. Len was happy with the results as it saved him three hours of hand sanding.
The desired surface finish was achieved in less than an hour and I should be able to reduce that to 30 minutes in the future. After 15 minutes, we realised we could increase the pressure and garnet flow to safely speed up the rate of production. In this special American Pickers/American Restoration/Pawn Stars. GMA SoftBlast™ garnet generated virtually no dust and lasted far longer than expected. The band purchased the van after it was found in the woods by the American Pickers hosts.American Pickers hosts present Aerosmith with long-lost tour van: Watch Spencer. Frank senses engine trouble with the van while Mike ignores the signs and ends up on. I couldn’t believe the control I had, and I wasn’t even down to the bare wood! I started to increase the abrasive metering valve slowly, and the gloss began to disappear from the section I was blasting. When the GMA SoftBlast™ garnet arrived, I expected it to be inconsistent in size and prone to clumping – which wasn’t the case.Īfter practising on a few wood pieces to get a feel of how it works, I began removing the lacquer finish from the table top at a low pressure of 15psi without garnet. He put this new option to the test when Len Reinhardt, a well-known furniture restoration expert requested Jeff to remove the lacquer finish from the top of a 19th century English mahogany pie crust table. When the guys get a lead on what could be Aerosmiths original tour van, they head out on a cross-country trek in search of the holy grail of rock n roll.
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Jeff began exploring other blast cleaning options such as GMA Garnet™ abrasives and the IBIX-Pro9 portable blasting system. Jeff found that the coarser glass may damage the softer parts of the surface while the finer glass was a nightmare to control, and it generates too much dust.
However, there are limitations to using glass abrasives on wood applications. The owner of Metal Revival in Columbia, Tennessee in USA has been using crushed glass for his wood and metal restoration projects for four years. For first-time garnet user Jeff Boggs, GMA Garnet™ is beyond amazing.
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