stevieb85 Posted May 8, 2009 Share Posted May 8, 2009 just wondering what you chaps have tried for taking scratches of your pride and joys? is there anything on the market for this? has anyone tried using tcut? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EBS_freak Posted May 8, 2009 Share Posted May 8, 2009 [quote name='stevieb85' post='482755' date='May 8 2009, 10:14 AM']just wondering what you chaps have tried for taking scratches of your pride and joys? is there anything on the market for this? has anyone tried using tcut?[/quote] It depends on the type of scratch to the action you can take. Too deep and you have no hope (e.g. if you have taken the colour or gone through the lacquer completely) The deeper scratches which haven't taken the colour can be sanded out (we're talking mild grades here - not your average B&Q paper!) and then brought back up to a shine by taking it through the grades and then buffing with some good polishing compounds. Less deep scratches can be polished out by polishing compounds alone. Check out Clover basses polishes for such a case. I've found it to be a good all round polishing system. T-cut is just one grade of polish (quite abrasive) - it may get your scratch out but you won't be able to get rid of the resulting swirls withouth using a finer compound to bring the surface back up to a shine. A good polishing wheel is always handy, failing that, an oribat sander with polishing hoods... although good results can be achieved after hours of manual effort. Remember to use seperate pads/cloths for every compound you are polishing with. What sort of finish are we talking here? Polyester? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BassBunny Posted May 8, 2009 Share Posted May 8, 2009 Try Grover Grime Guard. [url="http://www.wdmusic.co.uk/product/Grover_Grime_Guard_Spray_Polish_W|_Cloth_GP100"]http://www.wdmusic.co.uk/product/Grover_Gr..._W|_Cloth_GP100[/url] I put a scratch in a brand new Fender P Bass that went down to the undercoat. Grime Guard somehow got rid of it and we are talking a Red Top Coat and white primer. Don't ask me how it works, it just did. Since then I have polished all my Basses with it. Handy thing is it resists finger-marks. It is an absolute swine to apply as you need to pretty quick with the "polishing up" stage or it goes "foggy" and takes much elbow grease to polish up. Worth it IMHO Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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