Thread: First real resto

This one was a collaboration with Lynn and Joe, who did most of the work, but since I got to hold it to the buffer I am going to claim it to my name too

It is is a nice Joseph Rodgers that had a lot of pitting at the spine. The pitting didn't look too bad originally, but once we started to do the work Lynn dropped first to 240 greasless and then to 120 greasless compound, and after a while Joe took it to the faster buffer before most of the pitting was gone.
There is still a small area at the heel on the reverse as you can see on the photographs and a couple of stray pits near the tip, but overall it looks pretty nice.
Being my first experiment on the wheels I left some scratch marks, but nothing too bad. Plus the drinks were calling.
I think it took us around 3 hours, may be more.
Then Lynn honed it for me so that I can try it right then.

Many thanks to Lynn & Joe for doing the work and everybody else for cheering