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Tip for Mirror Polished Bolsters....

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I was cleaning a BAD fingerprint off a nickle=silver bolster on one of my 112s with MOTHERS mag and aluminum polish tonite and stumbled on a good trick.......After working with a soft washcloth and a lint-free polishing cloth I was still seeing a few really fine scratches with a low power magifing glass.It looked good,but I wasent totaly happy.Even with the softest cloth in the house and a light touch I would tilt it and still see REALL,REALLY fine lines! Well, I went to the bathroom and grabed a roll of soft toilet paper to try...EURAKA! LIKE A MIRROR!!!!!! Just a tiny dab of Mothers and a light circular buff ,a quick wipe-down with a wet peice of TP,repeated 2-3 times......IT GLOWED LIKE a DIAMOND !!! No Sh%$# !!! Like spitshined shoes I then did a brass bolster with the same result. Has anybody else tried this ???
 
Pack Rat said:
Cotton balls, brasso, and elbow grease will do it also.
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for a spit shine!?!?!?
gee and here i thought i used
Shninola and spit with
panty hose and lota rubbing in circles!!!
jest funning ya...
i have used white rouge with elect buff wheel on the bad spots...
but after this one prodect in atlanta got on the wood ...
i also wander what else others use and recomend?
 
I was in the USN - we were just happy to have shoes - and matching socks. One day, at an inspection, I was wearing some 'moulder's boots', steel toed midtops with elastic sides - for quick removal. Our ship's foundry folks couldn't afford them - but, as an Electronics Tech, we could. They were important for kicking the coke machine. At any rate, as the Captain walked behind me, our division officer, an E9 CPO/jerk, commented about my boots "We have some run down HEELS in this division!". I retorted "Yep... and one of them wears khaki's!". The captains laughter saved me from weekend duty. What's a 'spitshine'?

Oddly, I carried a SAK then... Nixon had just taken office... Zumwalt was CNO... I didn't know a sailer with panty hose...

Stainz
 
we had them sent to us for 'remberance' after a week in boot.....
but they had a fine mesh that was great for being able to see your self in after an hr or so.
would melt the shinenola in with matches to fill any pores in the toe of the leather..
cotton and most fabric fuze would stick in the wax...
after boot they were given away to a new boot if you felt kindly to the newbies
 
Even a micro fiber cloth left faint scratches.....I was shocked just how well the MOTHERS and Tp worked. I got the tip for the mag polish on a forum search,bought a can last week and tried it yesterday.One other thing,,,,,I did NOT let it stay on the scales(white micarta on NC and segua sic on the brass}It turns black and I was concerned it MIGHT stain them...... it did NOT...
 
Just got finished with another 112 using Mothers and soft TP, It just works so great! The pins/rivets look like little diamonds,and it gives the bolsters a LOT of flash. You have to use a soft touch on the last few buffs,even the wet paper towelewill leave a light haze if you rub to hard.This is NOT for getting out any kind of real scratch guys....Only for removing thoes fine light lines.I got my best results with just the tinyest little dab of polish,clean bit of TP,and a light touch at the end.Gently wiping down with the WET towel after 2-3 dabs Added flash! Mabe that step removes a bit of grit? The Mothers is the Mother! I did try to keep it off the wood/micarta and keep my hands clean,and before I put the 112 away I made sure there were no traces of the polishleft on it.........
 
I don't see why shiny bolsters are such a big dill. If it's a working knife it's going to get scratched and dinged up a little bit. That just adds more character to the knife in my opinion. Will somebody please explain the need to polish the bolsters to me.
 
storage mostly to prevent green from forming other wise
display mainly...users need nothing as well.. work knives
but even work knives get cleaned
i mean dont you wax your correvette from time to time?
 
I consider a good cleaning and polishing of my 110's as simply a maintenance issue. The users get a good hot soapy water scrubbing after deer season. A drop of light oil in the right places and a polishing.

The collectables, maybe not as often as the users.

And then there is the drawer full of oldies that haven't been touched since they got here. Some of them are kind of smelly too...:eek: :o

It's simply a personal preference.
 
When a knife comes from Buck it has the best finish they can put on it.Even a new one will pick up handlening marks.What I am working on is my collector/display 112s..I have always tried to keep my toys as nice as can be.Call it a pride thing. Most of my 112s where boght cheap,so there not the nicest they could be. Actualy i'm afraid to do much with them[like over restoring a collector car] I love it when they shine!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
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