A polish only a Mothers could love.

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Hi all, I just tore into my first container of Mother's Mag and Aluminum polish, and using just the polish and some Harley-Davidson polish cloths (hey if its good enough for a $30,000 bike its good for my S&W 686.). So far I am very happy with the results though, it is almost like having a new gun, AND I might not need to buy a SS Vaquero now that my 686 looks so nice and shiny, I stress Might. :D

What I am wondering is, I did about three coat/wipe, coat/wipe, etc. And it did get progressively more lustrous, far better than it was. But not quite to like jetmans (seen in here, http://www.thehighroad.org/showthread.php?t=323991). I do realize its alot of elbow grease, and I realize theirs is a Colt, mine a S&W but its not yet quite where I think it could be, any other suggestions would be appreciated.

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RFB
 
Thanks for the kind words on my Anaconda. It took me a couple of weeks an hour or so at a time watching TV to get mine looking that shiny. I did it over and over until I got it looking right. Mine started out as a Matte Stainless finish like yours too. I've heard of some guys that needed to use automotive finish wet/dry sand paper in varying grits before the final polish using Mothers. They would use 800 grit then 1000 then 1200 etc. until all surface imperfections were gone before the final polish with Mothers. I didn't take mine that serious, I just kept using a clean area of cloth and would work areas over and over until I got it the way it looks now. I didn't count but would "guesstimate" 10-15 coats in alll actuality. It just takes time and patience and NO power tools.

 
Keep on rubbin'
Get aggressive, as you can do that as long as you stay away from Dremmels and other electric style tooling.

I've been useing Mothers for years on S&W, Ruger & Colt.
You just aint pushin hard enough.

FYI: Some guns start off better than others depending on how well they were done originally at the factory.

Now get back to woyk....:D

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S&W 500 polished & engraved all by hand.

Jeff (GUN-KWAZY)
 
My pictures suck, compared to you guy's. This is my 64-2 that was pretty homely before Mother's Mag Polish. You can just polish and repeat and still get the black residue on your polishing cloth. I think you can achieve any degree of shiny in time. I was impressed with Mothers.
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I thought you were going to say something bad about people from poland .....;)
 
Mothers Mag is a very fine polish. If the scratches in the original finish are too deep, no amount of rubbing with a fine polish will take them out--unless of course you want to put 300 hours or more into one revolver.

A good way to reduce the time needed for a mirror shine is to carefully use progressively finer grits of automotive sandpaper. Start with 800, go to 1000, then to 1500, then to 2000, and finally to Mothers. And then polish a LONG TIME with Mothers.

When you do all these steps you'll see parts of the gun go to a perfect mirror while other parts (horrors! after all that work) will still have traces of the original scratch finish that weren't removed with the multi-step sanding. Then you'll have to go through all the steps again on those stubborn spots.

If you want a perfect mirror on the whole gun, you also need to be careful not to dish out the flat areas. Sanding flat areas with a flat support behind the paper can help.
 
Thank you all for your encouragement.

I put on coat #4 last night but now it seems I got some more to put on. I really really don't want to use sandpaper on my revolver, The barrel and frame are no problem, but that cylinder would drive me to insanity! ;) The good news is my New Sig is Nitron, so this is the only Stainless I got to worry about.

As for the Polish in the audience, Mrs. T's Pirogies, they're in your grocer's freezer! yummm-E

RFB
 
Jetman and Gunkwazy, you and your pictures both have inspired me.
I've started polishing my SP101 and have about six rounds on it. It's starting to look pretty good but have a long way to go before it rivals your fine pieces.

Bellzy
 
Sorry about the quality of this vintage picture.
It was taken a few years back with an old digital camera.
It does however show how someone could go blind even polishing a Ruger.
So keep on polishing you MOTHERS :D

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Jeff (GUN-KWAZY)
 
I just ran into a good deal on a Stainless Python I'm thinking about polishing up to match the Anaconda. It does look nice but it is quite a bit of work... but they look so much nicer when I'm done.
 
Good luck Jet.
Shiney Pythons are good lookin' no matter what barrel length.:D

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Jeff (GUNKWAZY)
 
After you polish the revolvers well, will future powder and carbon residue just wife off with a good rag and gun oil?
 
Actually yes.
I find that after a gun is polished, clean up is much easier as the surface is not as porous. So it takes less clean up time.
Kind of like a concrete floor in your garage.
(Sorry for the reference, but I'm a car guy.)
Anyway, if you spill oil on your cement floor the oil goes into the tiny pours of the concrete and it's tough to get the oil out.
Where as, when your floor is coated, those pores are no longer going to allow that oil to get into those little crevisis, and then oil just wipes right up leaving no stains.
Hope that all makes sense.

Jeff (GUN-KWAZY)
 
Shiney Pythons are good lookin' no matter what barrel length.
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Those sher ar perty GUNKKWAZY.

FYI I am stopping at 10 coats of Mothers, I took someones advice and pressed harder got coats 6-10 really well rubbed in, and its nice and shiny, problem is it had some surface scratches from the factory and those are pretty much gone, but they are still there if you tilt the gun just right. I don't wanna rub my S&W logo off too. Should of had them stamp the logo on the right side when I sent it in for the trigger guard, or at least found out if they could. :)

RFB
 
problem is it had some surface scratches from the factory and those are pretty much gone, but they are still there if you tilt the gun just right.
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There's an easy fix to that Robert. Stop tilting your gun just right.:D

By the way, who the hell needs logos.
Check out the S&W mountail gun I did a few years back.

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Jeff (GUN-KWAZY)
 
Stop or you will go blind:) I use a product called Blue Magic but I might try
mothers too.
 
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