Recently I picked up a beat up Hoffritz after one of you stole the mint one I really wanted on the bay. (You know who you are!) For the record, they are identical and mine has the advantage of personality and extra rust - which both came free, as the warped scales did - for a fraction of the price of the mint one. So there.

Anywhoo, it's a 6/8 blade with white scales and a red logo on the show side. The blade has etching and gold-wash that reads High Class. It looks that it could be brought back to life with a good polishing, but I was wondering if Mother's polish would take the gold-wash away, since I'd very much like to keep it.

I remember reading a thread about this some time ago. No matter how hard I tried it didn't show up in my searches; worse yet... I can't remember whether the poster warned against or recommended polish on gold-wash.


Marcos