Hi All,
Moses's post on his Stanley 60 chisels made me finally post on rehabbing that I am doing, and need some advise on.
A while back I bought some old Stanley 60 chisels, and have been working at cleaning up, polishing, flattening the backs, and sharpening them. I am early in the process, and have quite a ways to go on them. The blades look pretty good after I get through with them, not new, but pretty good.
I had originally thought I would not mess with the handles, and some of them look a we bit ratty, but the handles weren't the important part to me, and I was focused on the business ends.
However, I got to looking at them, and thought that the blades looked pretty nice, so got to thinking it might be nice to clean up and polish the handles so the entire chisel would look better.
I found that working on them with cleaning powder gets rid of some of the ground in dirt and grime, but wondered about buffing them up. I know that buffing compound of some type, and a buffing wheel, can help, but don't know what kind of buffing compound to use, or if there is a better approach. I have plenty of buffing wheels and the standard pack of 4 types of buffing compound, which I have had for years.
Any advise would be appreciated.
Ops, make the "sprucing" in the title line.
Thanks and regards,
Stew