Polishing a scratchplate?

[HarryPotter]

As per the title please folks, anybody know any good ways of polishing out very light scratches on a black Fender scratchplate?

TIA

[EBS_freak]

[quote name='HarryPotter' post='424496' date='Mar 3 2009, 08:36 PM']As per the title please folks, anybody know any good ways of polishing out very light scratches on a black Fender scratchplate?

TIA[/quote]

Polishing compound is your friend... and a polishing wheel... or a lot of elbow grease. You may need some wire wool if the scratches are deep.

[mrcrow]

to get a really smooth finish is a bit difficult...
but to go by car techniques...use a fine polishing paste like T-cut
then brasso or silver polish
finish with a good polish...perhaps car wax?

the idea is to use circular motion rather than straight so the scratches are slowly rubbed out

[gary mac]

I have just T cutted my black pickguard as recommended by Mrcrow. It has come up a treat, not completely removed all scratches, but think I ran out of elbow grease.

It looked so good I was enthused enough to polish the remainder of the body, neck and fret board (not with T cut).

Took off the strings and boiled em up. Oven dried them and re fitted.

Adjusted string height intonation etc. and generally fiddled about all day.


Looking and sounding great.

[mrcrow]

[quote name='gary mac' post='428048' date='Mar 7 2009, 03:35 PM']I have just T cutted my black pickguard as recommended by Mrcrow. It has come up a treat, not completely removed all scratches, but think I ran out of elbow grease.

It looked so good I was enthused enough to polish the remainder of the body, neck and fret board (not with T cut).

Took off the strings and boiled em up. Oven dried them and re fitted.

Adjusted string height intonation etc. and generally fiddled about all day.


Looking and sounding great.[/quote]

good!
there is a finer polishing medium called jewellers rouge for really smooth finish normally for glass and precious metals..