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Removing Gold Lettering from Saddles

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Clean:
Peeps,

I have a lovely NOS Kobe MX Copy saddle for my 2014 build, which has KMX on the side in Gold Foil lettering. Minus the "K" it would be a mintola dead ringer for a Kashi MX.  ::)

As much as I would love to buy a mint NOS Kashi MX for my build, the last one I watched on eBay went for almost three hundred notes, if I remember correctly.  :tickedoff:

So.... does anyone have a neat trick for removing the lettering using some nice science, or is it a slow and scratch-risk ridden job with a scalpel?   ???

Thanks, y'all,  :daumenhoch:

Clean.

oberonspacefruit:
Try roughing up the underside of the saddle with sandpaper ie an area that wont be seen. then attempt to polish it back to shiny with progressively finer grades of wet and dry, tcut, 3m etc. if you can get it shiny on the underside, it will obviously work on the lettering.
Ive done it on the back of a kashi, to remove some areas that had been heavily marked, presumably from a fall. the polishing method worked fine, although i obviously had to remove a bit of material with a blade to get the contour of the saddle correct.

on another note, vinylprep, then vinyl cote paint looks very similar to the nylon finish on kashi/elina seats.

boofy44:
doesn't nail varnish remover or some solvent like that work?

rollin72:
lighter fluid for a zippo does the trick

Dark Diggler:
nitromors on fine wire wool

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