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deeman:
Usually it is a good way of restoring a knackered part without painting or anno...people love shiny things...always have, always will!
I can remember stripping and polishing a stem and a seatclamp bitd but only because they didn't match the bike...but as the OP said, it was only with a bit of brasso or autosol to take the dullness away, they were not polished to a mirror finish! I was too busy throwing it around and slamming it on the ground to be polishing parts!
I think the term 'show polished' has only appeared recently as there were no 'shows' apart from contests bitd!  :daumenhoch:

rodriguez:
I agree with you Deeman people like shiney which is the crux of problem.

IMO polishing is not restoration it is customisation, restoring something means bringing it back to or as close to how it once looked, if it ends up looking completely different then it is customised.

Show polished is a bollox made up term made up to legitimise mirror polishing and is NOT restoration end of.

If you have a stem that is has loads of hammer marks the correct way to restore it is to get the dents filled with aluminium then finished to replicate the original finish as close as possible, for example, the casting marks on Pro Necks and Tuf Necks tops.

The wrong way is to file the marks out then polish it to a mirror finish and then call it restored.

MartyC:
Bitd the late Warren King and I would strip worn ansd scratched parts and polish them to a mirror finish with autosol but we both got bored keeping them super polished too!

pat-a-lar:


Or just leave them tatty as fcuk :)


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rodriguez:

--- Quote from: pat-a-lar on February 10, 2017, 12:00 PM ---

Or just leave them tatty as fcuk :)


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That's the way it should be left   :daumenhoch:

Looks cool as fook to me  :coolsmiley:

You'd have to be insane to take a polish mop that but unfortunately a hell of a lot of people do.  :idiot2:

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