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HG55 Appreciation Thread ***PIC HEAVY...ENTER AT YOUR OWN RISK!!!***

Have you ever seen such texture/grain on INFI?

Is it Jerry's fingerprint?

Or perhaps the original owner's print Icky Thump Icky Thump that got mystically applied during the stripping process?

Either way, it's beautiful to me and gives me joy just to behold it. :)

Here she is in all her Tigerhide, high-caliber full length CBT glory:

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Here's something y'all might find amusing. The mil. overrun HG55s were sold in a 2009 ganzaaa. I didn't get my order in until the next day, and I still 'em.

That was as unusual then as it is now. I guess this was just one of those models that doesn't get the love it deserves when it's first released. Pork belly skinner, anyone?
 
also, has anyone stripped a small cbt hg55? if so how did you sand or remove the decarb off the small grooves

i tried folding some sand paper and getting in there but its not very efficient
 
grizzle said:
also, has anyone stripped a small cbt hg55? if so how did you sand or remove the decarb off the small grooves

i tried folding some sand paper and getting in there but its not very efficient
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Dremel with the STAINLESS steel wire brush for the Dremel, it has a copper looking shaft. The pot metal ones will leave a patina behind on the INFI. Wear goggles or you'll get metal fragments in yer peepers!

Next hit the grooves with those little scotchbrite bonnets...be careful near the edge or you'll foul your edge and ruin your scotchbrite while you're at it.

Hand sanding and polishing with Mothers & Ren Wax is the last step I do to blend the ghost marks the Scotchbrite leaves behind. Probably an easier way exists, but this process works for me and I find it therapeutic.

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thank you gents for the tips! ill definitely try a wire brush on a drill or dremel. I had tried to hit it with a normal hand wire brush but the decarb was too powerful.
 
PeteyTwoPointOne said:
Dremel with the STAINLESS steel wire brush for the Dremel, it has a copper looking shaft. The pot metal ones will leave a patina behind on the INFI. Wear goggles or you'll get metal fragments in yer peepers!

Next hit the grooves with those little scotchbrite bonnets...be careful near the edge or you'll foul your edge and ruin your scotchbrite while you're at it.

Hand sanding and polishing with Mothers & Ren Wax is the last step I do to blend the ghost marks the Scotchbrite leaves behind. Probably an easier way exists, but this process works for me and I find it therapeutic.

JM6UyPA.jpg
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so I need a workbench. got it.
 
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