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I KNOW it's not a REAL Restoration, but...
...It's my first...
The Emil Kronenberg I got recently had a spot of rust, and those little black spidery marks (what are they, I've seen them on pictures?). I'm not saying it was 'bad' but the marks couldn't be ignored. So I 'took to it' (rather aggressively, much more than its state deserved) with 'sanding pads', an assortment of wet and dry (600, 800, 1200) plus some 180. I knew to remove all of the rust I'd end up removing at least some of the emblem, and it was rather tacky anyway; so I decided to remove it all rather than keep some of it there; mainly through necessity, the 'black spidery marks' were quite obvious on the emblem.
I started with the sanding pads and then the 180 and finally the 600 last weekend. I honed it, (no good) honed it again (yesterday - three times; astonishing result) and decided to polish it more today at a family gathering. I had worthwhile conversations about straight razor shaving with the 'young folk' that were gathered there drinking Bundy and Rum in a can and smoking, while I drank last year's South Australian Shiraz and Imported German beer and polished and polished and polished.
I received comments about 'how patient' I was, and 'if you keep polishing that it will disappear' and 'did you just spit on that?'.
Four hours later using just a 2 inch square piece of 1200 Wet and Dry and some elbow grease the Bundy and Rum drinking young whipper snapper and I agreed it was 'done'.
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