HarryPotter Posted March 3, 2009 Share Posted March 3, 2009 As per the title please folks, anybody know any good ways of polishing out very light scratches on a black Fender scratchplate? TIA Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EBS_freak Posted March 4, 2009 Share Posted March 4, 2009 [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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrcrow Posted March 5, 2009 Share Posted March 5, 2009 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gary mac Posted March 7, 2009 Share Posted March 7, 2009 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrcrow Posted March 9, 2009 Share Posted March 9, 2009 [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.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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