Bakelite colour ?

nice find from the boot sale today (really can get mixed in with some rubbish) its 100% right

wondering the colour, not as opaque as most i've had before

reddish orange with vertical striations

a particular colour name ?

any Thoughts or Info appreciated

 

i've stopped using the swab method now as last time it left a big paler mark

so hot tap (stink)

 

Maybe root beer? The Bakelite/Catalin colour names are always confusing to me

 

@charlie cheswick, Is it possible that maybe your swab only took off some old body oils that had darkened????

 

Not sure what to call that - some sort of amber/rootbeer swirl. i can smell it from here though!

 

Hi Aqui, yeah it took off a layer of the patina, just as if you were removing tarnish. Has never happened like that before, but won't take that risk anymore

 

come to think of it, might be best just to clean all the inner to that slightly lighter level

 

only as light as that under one

in hand yellowy/orange with the red striations

 

suppose i can literally use cherry amber as its got both

 

It shouldn't do. Maybe it was the dreaded fakelite from China?

 

nah, had the dreaded smell as well so defo bakeo.perhaps as aqui mentioned GRIME

will have a fiddle to see if the base colour in those areas gets any lighter

 

Ditto. I've never had that happen with a bakelite test. It's just lightly polishing the material which should be solid and the same color all the way through.

No idea what the China stuff does though.

 

smell is unmistakable, and look is bang on as well

but could be wrong of course (will add that it was the baking soda method tested with)

a few even paler marks on front as well

 

evey might know, she can smell it from miles away

 

I know the smell of formaldehyde well. That looks like a Butterscotch color in daylight. Fakelite will give off the smell at first, but it's all in a coating and not all the way through.

 

interesting thanks evey, i'm guessing by the looks thats almost white at the core, something is fishy so guess it could be the case of fakelite

 

It's certainly possible.