Woodchuck's War On Polishing Rouge

Walosi

Walosi

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Aside from current events, part of my less-than-happy mood this AM was waking up to a new Chitlangi with a bright red handle. Seems it had been waxed with the polishing rouge still on it (heavily) and the wax had penetrated into the wood, carrying the color with it. I saw what appeared to be the normal amount come off with the primary wooling and sanding, and had routed the grooves and checked lines with a toothpick and oil. I began with phrases that caused the wife to frown, and in a tone of voice that sent the Cairn behind the sofa. I wound up with a new ally in the Woodchuck War - Murphy Pure Vegetable Oil Household Cleaner. One heavy coat, non-dilute, on the corner of the old T-Shirt, and sanded and steel wooled again. The grooves were fine, but shallow (I thought) and when I routed them after the soaping, I found out they were packed 3/4 of their depth with more rouge. It is oiled and drying again, but looks like good Saatisal, and I couldn't get more rouge off with hard rubbing with a cloth. May take another soaping, since my first oil coat no doubt drove more color into the grain than the original wax - we'll see. I wish I had thought of this stuff while I was working on the carved sheath.
 
Uncle Bill is a Woodchuck, Uncle Bill is a Woodchuck....Just before I clicked on your post, I went through my stock of brushes, and found an old (no longer "dentally correct") super stiff bristle, and cleaned up the checkering and grooves - with a dry brush. Thanks for the tip :D
 
I use one on blades that are hatchmarked, too, and they work pretty well for clean up. Give the blade a shot of WD40, brush, then rinse with another shot and that generally gets it.
 
I just cleaned out another 1/32" of hard-packed rouge with a brush dipped in the bottle. There was wood underneath :)

Rusty - Thanks. I haven't seen the old hard brushes for over a year on the usual shelves. If the newer "warm fuzzy" soft brushes are supposed to be so much better, how come my teeth are the only things that haven't fallen off or quit working? Or, maybe it was the tortillas, beans and jalapeno poquitos.
 
Wal, the last tooth I lost broke off while eating a "crunchy" taco. I guess I should stick with the flour tortillas.
 
Walosi thanks for shareing that!!!! I have one kumar Karda that has a great deal of carving on it with a very loose design and lots of speckled background that defies anything to take the jewlwers rouge out.
I will have to give the soap a try along with a hard bristle brush and see if that will finally clean it up.
I used laquer thinner on it with the only result of drying the wood out severely.:(
 
...has a good rep, and is all vegetable according to the label. It could help dried-out wood. I went over the carving on the Chit briskly, but gently, not knowing how soft the corners might be after oiling and the previous soaping. Raised a humungous red froth that I soaked up by blotting with paper towels, and then one layer of T-Shirt material over the tip of a fingernail to get into the cuts/grooves. The bottoms showed wood right away, and the flat surfaces all appear to be unstained now. I'm watching the last coat closely, and it may raise more rouge, but this stuff sure speeds up the cleaning and can't harm the wood. When I think of how many months it sat under the kitchen sink while I was cleaning Saatisal, I could kick myself. If I could kick.
 
Now aint' this a life! Got nothing better to do than clean stuff with toothbrushes! Lord, where has my youth gone?
 
direction as mine went. Of course, when I was younger I was a brig chaser at the infamous old Anacostia brig, where guys cleaning the deadlines painted on the floor, with toothbrushes, had a different outlook on cleaning with toothbrushes. Guess it's all in how you look at it :p
 
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