Originally Posted by
Christel
Nice job!
Its not a difficult process unless you have super fragile or valuable scales. For newbies, if your peening looks rough, sanding the peened area with progressively fine sandpaper (1k onwards) will make it look so much better. Gently buffing it on a crox coated linen strop really brings out the shine of the brass - although only do this when you've got the area already smooth (Unless you want green gunk to find its way into the parts that aren't smooth). incidentally this also works well for horn scales and brings out a gloss shine to them - you reeeeeeally want to make sure the surface is smooth as can be first though, for the same reason as applies to polishing peened pins. A hanging denim strop works very well for this - gently rubbing over it will bring a great polish but may take an hour or so.