Shiny NEW!
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Ooh! Nice!
*Whistles* nice one, again krona delivers!
Beautiful!!! Love the before and after shots. Really makes you appreciate what Sam can do. Great job!
Ben
Ben
Wow!!
Very nice!!
Very nice!!
Wow. That is some difference.
Perfection!
Looks pretty!
So what was done?
A re-plating job, or an industrial strength clean-up and buffing. If the latter, please give details.[/]
A re-plating job, or an industrial strength clean-up and buffing. If the latter, please give details.[/]
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The actual plating process is the last step of replating. Nickel plated razors are chemically stripped but gold plated razors like NEW's are manually stripped. Then they are buffed, and polished. I usually start with a 180 grit dremel bit. If there are are deep scratches I try to catch them with 100 grit but don't go lower than that. Under 200 grit evens out most superficial scratches. I then move up to 220, 280 dremel wheel, 320, 400, 400 dremel wheel, 600, 1,200, and a brass wire wheel. I do the final polish on a 8'' buffer with standard rouge on one buffing wheel and high polish rouge (green) on the loose leaf buffing wheel. I give them a final scrubbing bubbles bath to make sure the surface is completely clean. Then I take them to my plater that deals with actual plating. The trickiest and most important part of replating (besides the electroplating itself) is prepping correctly and hanging them securely for plating. I've learned a lot doing this the last year (I've sadly, ruined some) and I'm still learning al lot about the process.
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Sweet!
Wow, the razor looks wonderful!
makes me wish i'd done something similar to the one my father left me. yours is great
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