I've had this Ferndown Bulldog is a little over a year old now, and over the last year I've found that I've never really been happy with a silver maintenence schedule.
I know, polish it every day, or every week, or something...
Not happening.
So for the last eight months I had a thick coating of wax covering the silver. It looked terrible, and Somehow my fingerprint still got etched into the surface underneath. Trying to keep an even, shiny surface seems like a lost cause, and reversing tarnish with electrolysis every few months is a pain. So, I finally gave up and said: "If you can't beat 'em, join them."
First I gave it a "rusticated" finish to start with a fresh surface and make it that much more practical. Somehow it looks a lot rougher than I expected from my chunk of sandpaper that's at least 1200 grit, probably because it was an older, slightly dirty piece of sandpaper.
I have to say I'm fairly pleased with the results, the different blue and green hues are kind of neat. All I did was stick it in a tub with a sliced boiled egg. Almost all of the tarnishing happens in the first five minutes, these processes are highly dependant on temperature.
I know, polish it every day, or every week, or something...
Not happening.
So for the last eight months I had a thick coating of wax covering the silver. It looked terrible, and Somehow my fingerprint still got etched into the surface underneath. Trying to keep an even, shiny surface seems like a lost cause, and reversing tarnish with electrolysis every few months is a pain. So, I finally gave up and said: "If you can't beat 'em, join them."
First I gave it a "rusticated" finish to start with a fresh surface and make it that much more practical. Somehow it looks a lot rougher than I expected from my chunk of sandpaper that's at least 1200 grit, probably because it was an older, slightly dirty piece of sandpaper.
I have to say I'm fairly pleased with the results, the different blue and green hues are kind of neat. All I did was stick it in a tub with a sliced boiled egg. Almost all of the tarnishing happens in the first five minutes, these processes are highly dependant on temperature.