beautiful shine!

[Shin-Ken 1074]

every time I see your polish pictures I had a little seizure. WOW! You must have a good buffing wheel setup, my 6" bench grinder with bad bearings turned terrible polish jobs, replaced it with an 8" and still had some grain showing through. I found it easier to sand 200, 400, 600, #00 steel wool/WD40, #0000 steel wool/WD40, Mother's polish.

The grain showing through is not so much a problem with the buffer, its the type of mop used and the grade of compound used (no sanding needed) that will eliminate any grain issue, and a few hours experience helps too. To help maintain consistant results when polishing alloys for the final finish it helps to use only one mop with the final polishing compound and don't use it for any other job, just final polishing. By not contaminating the mop with other types of polishing compound and using a fine cotton polish mop you will have that super mirror finish, its way past the stock look of course but if its bling you want thats the way to get it, cheers.

 

[82Shafty]

Thanks.

Don't tell anybody, but I cheated.

Those pictures were taken 5 years ago, right after the bike was painted and polished. :-\\\

This is how it looked 4 years later (just over a year ago):

Some day I'll have to clean it up and get some more decent pictures of it.

If I make it home long enough before riding season hits again, I have plans on changing some gaskets on her bike, so I will likely get the engine paint and polish touched up as well.

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You have to ride them to enjoy 'em!

My pics were taken, well the blue one in '07 and the blk/mrn was last spring. I ended up doing a better job on my dad's bike, so I need to step mine up another notch or two this winter!

 

[Dave8338]

The fine art of spit shine. Ya gotta love it!

Some VERY NICE L's here. Much luv to da L

 

[82Shafty]

wow. thats some nice work steve!

i dont have a buffing wheel so i will be sticking to sand paper.

i like the fourth pic's clutch cover, the others seem almost chromish, and unlike some people, im not a fan of huge quantities of chrome (i love chrome exhausts though). that fourth picture looks like what i'll be aiming for

A Dremel and a Dremel polishing kit are a good investment to have in any garage!

For the final polishing I always do it by hand. I did go the steel wool route before final polishing and it definitely made a difference. I do not have a buffing wheel either, but it may very well be my next investment.