mick the pen
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I always use a quality wax such as auto glym or maguires for the final finish, as burnishing cream or cutting paste need finishing wax to protect the finished article.
I always use a quality wax such as auto glym or maguires for the final finish, as burnishing cream or cutting paste need finishing wax to protect the finished article.
Right - got it, that's why the seat of my trousers is so shiny?
What brand of burnishing cream is recommended by the forum?
Brian, nope that's not your bog floor, that is corian, I've made one pen from your piece and got another one or two left. Got to say that I preferred turning your concoction, it wasn't quite as dense as the corian
No Picture didn't happen, you know the rules Neil.
What happened to my bog floor?
I have always used Micromesh, TCut and Mer Wax up to now. I might move over but first a question.
What brand of burnishing cream is recommended by the forum?
Interesting thread!
I am lucky enough to have aquired from my old days in plastics distribution, some perspex no 1 and no 2 polish.
I have always used Micromesh, TCut and Mer Wax up to now. I might move over but first a question.
What brand of burnishing cream is recommended by the forum?
Save your money Rowdy you wont get any better results mate in fact I think Tcut is better than burnishing cream personally after all it is designed to burnish paint so in effect it is a burnishing cream the same with the halfords product Jim & Terry use
Save your money Rowdy you wont get any better results mate in fact I think Tcut is better than burnishing cream personally after all it is designed to burnish paint so in effect it is a burnishing cream the same with the halfords product Jim & Terry use
Wouldn't have said there was much in it money wise mate, 500 ml of Chestnut burnishing cream is around the £9.50 mark normal retail & you can usually get 10% off if you wait for an offer at Turners Retreat or the like, the 3 tubes of T cut would give you 450g.
I used to use a car cutting paste like T cut but found it would go hard in the container over time where as my present bottle of burnishing cream is about 6 years old & shows no signs of setting. It's also runnier than the cutting paste I used to use, that may be why it hasn't set, but it's certainly economical as it goes a long way hence why I've had it such a long time.
Just my 2p's worth & certainly not meaning to disagree & as I said earlier in the thread they are all only abrasives the finer the abrasive the higher the shine.
cutting pastes dont have the protective ingredients in them like finishing wax, if you cut the paint back on your car and dont seal it with wax it will just dull up again.
cutting pastes dont have the protective ingredients in them like finishing wax, if you cut the paint back on your car and dont seal it with wax it will just dull up again.
Mick,
I take it that this is in response to my question as to why you suggest that you need to use wax after using burnishing cream? If paint dulls on a car when not sealed I can understand the need for wax, I take it that something like oxidisation will have happened to the exposed paint, but surely this doesnt happen to acrylics?