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08-20-2014, 04:25 AM #11Senior Member
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I just read the referenced thread, and will be running out to get some synthetic steel wool tomorrow. I haven't been able to locate any MAAS locally, so I may have to bite the bullet and order it online.
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Thanks!Substance likes this.When you are dead, you don't know that you are dead. It's difficult only for the others.
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08-20-2014, 04:31 AM #12Senior Member
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You REALLY need to work on your hijacking... I almost missed it! Originally Posted by earcutter
Thank you both for the kind words and good wishes. Originally Posted by MJC
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08-20-2014, 05:30 AM #13Senior Member
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The Synthetic 000 steel wool and polish really does work well and I've used it ever since that restore thread. I use Blue Magic polish and it seems to work great
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I too am a steel wool user. I use the synthetic when I can find it and the good old fashioned steel wool the rest of the time, along with mothers mag polish. I also have a vibrating tumbler and it works very well also, but not nearly as interactive. Sometimes I start in the tumbler and finish with the steel wool. Just using the steel wool lets me see and control how much I leave behind.
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09-01-2014, 07:58 PM #15Senior Member
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I wound up deciding to go with the minimalist approach. I started off with soaking a few hours in Evapo-Rust to try and kill any lurking corrosion. I followed that with gentle hand polishing with Flitz that I applied with 3M 3000 grit Trizact Performance Sandpaper. Originally Posted by MJC
The result is subtle, and the camera doesn't really pick it up as well as the eye does, but I think that there's some improvement. I think that I'm satisfied, and will stop here.
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09-01-2014, 08:40 PM #16Senior Member
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I think no matter what level you went to it would still look awesome, purely due to those scales let alone the eching on the blade to top it of,
nice judge on when to stop,
the scales look new but the blade shows the true story of its life
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