Well check out the difference, and yes it's the exact same pair of bars, no substitution here.
One shot before and the other after polishing. Please note these have not yet been off for chroming yet. That's about to happen next week.
This is a process that's pretty much not obtainable without the correct gear, firstly I sent the bars off to have the old chrome stripped and also pickled so as to remove the rust.
From there I started off with 3 different Glazing wheels followed up with a Sisal Polishing wheel using "Carbrax" Medium Greasy polish.
I'll post photos up after the chrome work has been completed.
The last photo is about as bad as what's left behind of some of the massive rust pitting that was on this set. Note that this photo is taken in Macro setting and as such the naked eye will hardly notice it. If I was still in the plating industry I would leave these bars in the Copper Bath for a fdull day and then re-polish these back down to the steel thus leaving any pitting filled up with copper and thus leaving the surface totally unblemished.
This process is called Copper Polishing an item
I live a 24 Hour lifestyle, but every now and again I seem to fall asleep, well at least that's what my wife tells me.
