Making new stop faces for reed organs

Reed organs may often be missing faces on the stop knobs. When original replacements are not available, it's easy to make new ones (using modern materials). This video shows how to make them from scratch as well as how make them by cutting/pasting letters from photos of the other stop knobs.

[@ianthompson9201]

Very encouraging to see such successful replacements. I've always felt that good-looking stopfaces contribute enormously to an organ's air of "quality".

[@johnhupcey9442]

Microsoft Word was useless, but Adobe Photoshop was better. It was hard to get a matching background color. I ended up with R:249, G:239, B:200. I just made a large rectangular background of that color instead of circles, then used a plastic circle template to pencil a 7/8" circle around each hole. I found a font called "Olde English Regular" and I used 18 pt. It seems a bit dark/thick compared to the existing stop faces - maybe I needed to use a "thin" font instead of "regular" or alter it somehow in Photoshop. Thanks for the tutorial!! I put off replacing my two missing faces for years!!