dazco
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Well, impossible as far as i'm concerned. This will be a long post, but please read it. if you have done a lot of polishing then this may interest you, especially if you've done metal polishing. When i say "polishing" i don't mean waxing or cleaning, i mean what polishing really is....removing a microscopic layer of the surface of any material that has any kind of imperfection. I have some polished aluminum parts on the Tbird, and you can see the fine scratches in it, especially in the right light. You can take a fine polish like i use (mother's billet polish) and remove it to the point it looks very chrome like in the right light. But in some different lighting situations you see that it's gotten better but never goes away. This is true with not just aluminum but paint, ESPECIALLY black, and even plastics. NOTHING i have ever used gets out that last level of fine scratching, and in the right light it looks horrible. Mother's billet is a very fine polish, much finer than thier mag and aluminum polish or blue magic etc. It's also much more expensive. And as good as it is, with a good soft microfiber towel it still retains the scratches. I have also tried dremel cloth and felt wheels by the way. So i came to realize it was probably the TOWEL you use that leaves the scratches, not the polish.
Turns out i was exactly right. The towel is the missing ingredient to get it perfect. I was using microfiber which is considered super soft and is what many people use to clean polish or wax thier cars, right? Well, while at pep boys one day i found a micro fiber towel that looked different and felt VERY different. It was super soft feeling so i bough a 2 pack. I tried them for several things but hated them because they are too soft and slick feeling to grab the wax for wax removal, and had almost no absorbency, so if you tried to use them with liquids like spray wax or detailer you would be wiping forever and the suface never got dry. So i put them aside and figured they are worthless. Then while at pep boys one day i saw them again and noticed on the packaging something i didn't notice when i bought mine....it said "polishing". Thats when it hit me that this is wy they are so soft and instead of being cotton to absorb, they are poly which is much slicker and therefore less abrasive. So it hit me that just maybe they would remove the final scratches from the aluminum, but i was skeptical because i have polished things all my life and never found a way to do that. When i got home i tried it with the mother's billet polish, and i know it will sound like the boy who cried wolf because i have raved about several products in the past, but this towel is like a miracle to me ! The end result was that the aluminum now looks like chrome with no scratching in any lighting conditions. I think only a few here will really understand this and how amazing it is, but like i said this is something i've never been able to accomplish in a lifetime of polishing. I wish i could post pics, but this isn't something you can easily capture.
So last nite i took it even further. I have always owned a number of poly coated guitars. Poly is a very hard to polish finish and if you sand it to get dents or deep scratches off and then polish it to get the sanding marks out you end up with a hazy spot that no amount of elbow grease removes. Last night i used the mothers and this towel on a couple guitars with finishes that were old and scratched up good. Of course you have to sand to get the big scratches out, but i just wanted to see how the fine scratching comes out if at all. The kind you see on a black car is what i've been talking about here all along. Anyways, i tried it and i was totally amazed. I mean blown away. the result looked like i poured honey over the finish. it looked so wet it was incredible. It takes the finish to as glossy and wet as you can possibly imagine and removes every imperfection within it's range, meaning as i said before NOT the things that sanding is required to remove. but now i see i can sand it and the sanding haze left by very fine wet and dry paper will be 100% gone and leave a perfect finish, and i mean 100% perfect as in brand spanking new, yet even glossier. Then the final test....plastic. Ever seen the scratching in the plastic pickguard on a guitar? Ever tried to remove it? Nothing ever did...till now ! This is where i was so blown away i can't believe it. This towel with probably any fine polish i believe will literally renew plastic to brand spanking new condition. This floored me.
If you wanna try them, they are called "PEAK" brand and the item has "polishing" on the pack. they have a coarser grain on one side of the cloth than the other. I used the finer side, tho the other side may work as well too. If you understood a lot of what i was describing and have tried to do the same thing, give this towel a try with som emothers billet. It's just incredible. I would say w/o a doubt this is the best product of any kind dealing with finishes that i have ever bought, honestly !
Turns out i was exactly right. The towel is the missing ingredient to get it perfect. I was using microfiber which is considered super soft and is what many people use to clean polish or wax thier cars, right? Well, while at pep boys one day i found a micro fiber towel that looked different and felt VERY different. It was super soft feeling so i bough a 2 pack. I tried them for several things but hated them because they are too soft and slick feeling to grab the wax for wax removal, and had almost no absorbency, so if you tried to use them with liquids like spray wax or detailer you would be wiping forever and the suface never got dry. So i put them aside and figured they are worthless. Then while at pep boys one day i saw them again and noticed on the packaging something i didn't notice when i bought mine....it said "polishing". Thats when it hit me that this is wy they are so soft and instead of being cotton to absorb, they are poly which is much slicker and therefore less abrasive. So it hit me that just maybe they would remove the final scratches from the aluminum, but i was skeptical because i have polished things all my life and never found a way to do that. When i got home i tried it with the mother's billet polish, and i know it will sound like the boy who cried wolf because i have raved about several products in the past, but this towel is like a miracle to me ! The end result was that the aluminum now looks like chrome with no scratching in any lighting conditions. I think only a few here will really understand this and how amazing it is, but like i said this is something i've never been able to accomplish in a lifetime of polishing. I wish i could post pics, but this isn't something you can easily capture.
So last nite i took it even further. I have always owned a number of poly coated guitars. Poly is a very hard to polish finish and if you sand it to get dents or deep scratches off and then polish it to get the sanding marks out you end up with a hazy spot that no amount of elbow grease removes. Last night i used the mothers and this towel on a couple guitars with finishes that were old and scratched up good. Of course you have to sand to get the big scratches out, but i just wanted to see how the fine scratching comes out if at all. The kind you see on a black car is what i've been talking about here all along. Anyways, i tried it and i was totally amazed. I mean blown away. the result looked like i poured honey over the finish. it looked so wet it was incredible. It takes the finish to as glossy and wet as you can possibly imagine and removes every imperfection within it's range, meaning as i said before NOT the things that sanding is required to remove. but now i see i can sand it and the sanding haze left by very fine wet and dry paper will be 100% gone and leave a perfect finish, and i mean 100% perfect as in brand spanking new, yet even glossier. Then the final test....plastic. Ever seen the scratching in the plastic pickguard on a guitar? Ever tried to remove it? Nothing ever did...till now ! This is where i was so blown away i can't believe it. This towel with probably any fine polish i believe will literally renew plastic to brand spanking new condition. This floored me.
If you wanna try them, they are called "PEAK" brand and the item has "polishing" on the pack. they have a coarser grain on one side of the cloth than the other. I used the finer side, tho the other side may work as well too. If you understood a lot of what i was describing and have tried to do the same thing, give this towel a try with som emothers billet. It's just incredible. I would say w/o a doubt this is the best product of any kind dealing with finishes that i have ever bought, honestly !
