My First Estate Refinish

[mahtofire14]

I am doing this more for my own amusement but you can follow along too if you like. I bought this Weber Blackthorne for $18 and it came pretty badly oxidized. I wish I had before pics of the stem because it was bad. Brown and orange oxidation everywhere. Did the bleach treatment and magic eraser and helped a little. Got frustrated and then I just picked up my magic eraser and went to town. I think I worked that stem for 45 minutes. Boy what a difference. Now just waiting for my waxes to come and hopefully I can polish the bowl up nice. We'll see what happens next.
http://rs262.pbsrc.com/albums/ii91/drscholl14/8498742F-7EB8-4DBD-8D7D-A650549EA97D_zpsngjnlqgx.jpg?w=480&h=480&fit=clip
http://rs262.pbsrc.com/albums/ii91/drscholl14/5CE8AD4D-0F3D-47FF-AA06-A0B2AE520BE1_zpsgl5zqlen.jpg?w=480&h=480&fit=clip

[DMK]

Nice job

[dijit]

looks great so far

[MarkinAZ]

Sometimes it takes a little elbow grease! The wax is gonna make a big difference. Great job Pete:tu

[Remo]

Very nice :tu

[mahtofire14]

With the bowl, on the rustification, it looks as though the previous owner was painting and it was splattered with a tan colored paint. It could be some spots where the paint has chipped off, I'm not quite sure. Not sure what I'm going to do about these yet.

[mahtofire14]

Here are some pics.http://rs262.pbsrc.com/albums/ii91/drscholl14/BB82A8B0-9635-42CC-A229-6B7A4FD58222_zpsyyh5alza.jpg?w=480&h=480&fit=clip
http://rs262.pbsrc.com/albums/ii91/drscholl14/920E3548-BA08-4DBE-AFA3-3D9EC78037CD_zpscodwsgou.jpg?w=480&h=480&fit=clip

[The.Sheepdog]

looking good!

[mahtofire14]

Got my waxes this afternoon. Got both paragon and halcyon 2. Used the paragon on my smooth Gresham Giant and it is shining like a mirror. Now, I'm sure everyone has had this problem but how in the hell do you get all the little grooves of a rusticated bowl polished? The raised parts of the bowl look good but the rustification grooves and indents are still very dirty.