Enamelling

Good evening members,
I've been a lantern restorer for a few years now and have been very successful in my endeavours to fix and fettle tilley/vapalux and bialaddin lamps/lanterns, I have been self teaching myself to enamel hood/vents to a high standard using all original hoods/vents as always there are some age and wear issues but in general they seem to be overcome in the end.
I would like to use my work to provide a service to members who would like to restore their treasured lamps /lanterns for further information please don't hesitate to ask

 

Welcome to the forum. Could you post some pictures of your enamel work and tell us a bit more about yourself? Where are you based?

 

I am based in Hertfordshire and been working on parrafinalia for many years trying to use modern technology to fix vintage issues, I've had an Instagram account for about two years and have many pictures of my work on there if you guys are interested it's @Tilleyz13 as for photos I will upload them for you to look over

 

Here are a few more of my works

 

Impressive looking if they stand up to the heat of a lamp.

 

Very nice work indeed

 

Will stand up to 900 degrees, tried and tested

 

Welcome aboard!

 

Thank you

 

Been watching you on Instagram for awhile now, very good work

 

Just wondering if you can enamel red?

 

@Tilleyz13

Hi and welcome to the forum.

Very impressive work and I’m sure you will have some “takers” here. How long does it take you to strip and prepare a hood for re-enamelling?

Regards Jeremy

 

You are about a 20 minute drive from me and come the end of covid restrictions I will likely be there with at least one seriousy rare hood I dare not entrust to the mail. ::Neil::

 

Yes

 

It's dependent on condition but usually it takes a couple of hrs to prepare for enamelling

 

It will be a pleasure
Regards
Allan

 

Thank you for the warm welcome

 

Oh yes! HERE and HERE. @Robert Radcliffe

WG Ball for your enamel supplies I see. What about the retail sales bar to UK customers due to Brexit that Robert Radcliffe reported?

John

 

I'm a trade customer
Regards
Allan

 

What beautiful work! Could you PM me and let me know what re-enameling a hood would cost?
Thanks,
George

 

No problem

 

Right. It’s very encouraging to see all those hoods restored. Great work Allan.

John

 

That's sure great work.
Very welcomed indeed.

 

Wow, top job there, well done.
Cheers
Pete
@Tilleyz13

 

Thank you

 

Thanks Pete

 

I've got some right tatty old Primus hoods that would look great in fresh japan green.

Can you send me a PM with a price estimate please

 

Hi all
who knows the way to contact tilleyz13 ?
thanks

 

Use the private message function on this site.

 

@ColinG
I sent a message, thanks