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Say, I mentioned in a thread in the gear forum my razoring and cleaning of my Large Beaver Triangle Muff in order to get the Gear Gas sticker off of it (I must stop here to plug Gear Gas Store and Ernie in particular who did a fantastic job of assembling the BYOC LB!), as I have some personal touches I'd like to add to it.
It worked alright, but there are a few razorblade slashes, quite a few, actually, across the top face of the pedal.
What would you recommend for like "sanding" or buffing the top of the pedal? I know there are different levels of abrasiveness to certain polisher/cloth type things you can get... can I just go to my local hardware store and get something? I'm not super concerned that it's perfect, just wanna smoov it out a little.
How deep are the scratches and stuff you're trying to fix? The deeper they are, you'll want rougher grit paper. The higher the number, the smoother the paper...so maybe something around 200? As you said, you're not trying to go for perfect so that should be just fine. Are you gong to be doing it by hand or do you have a power sander? If by hand, use a block to put the paper around. It will make it easier to use and sanding will be more uniform.
Thanks Jero. Are we talking just straight up sandpaper, here? I plan on just touching it up by hand... and in a fairly minor way. The cuts aren't deep at all... almost just surface scratches. It's not a matter of making them disappear, just smoothing them down a little... to shine it up and in case I want to add a decal or paint it or something later on.
If it's just sandpaper I need, at whatever smoothness, I'll just hop over to Ace and get some.
I've found you can't really get the scratches out until you use quite a fine grit (you practically have to polish it). You basically step up in small-ish intervals until they're gone.
If you use a belt sander, the marks will be straight so it'll look brushed instead of all scratched up.
McSpunckle wrote:I've found you can't really get the scratches out until you use quite a fine grit (you practically have to polish it). You basically step up in small-ish intervals until they're gone. If you use a belt sander, the marks will be straight so it'll look brushed instead of all scratched up.
These are good points.
So yea, sandpaper is all you need. Might not be a bad idea to get a range of grades so you can step it up if needed, as Spunx said.
