Before and after, just wnted some opinions...

[Jiro49]

Here are a Set of Fuchi, Kashira and semigane that were off and old sword and I tried to clean them up.. Just wanted opinions.

 

Thanks for looking..!

[IanB]

Matt, Well done - an excellent job that has rescued some nice fittings from oblivion.

Ian Bottomley

[Jiro49]

Thank you very much! It took about 15 hours of work but as soon as I saw the chocho it made it worth it.. Such delicate inlay..

[watsonmil]

Dear Matt,

May I echo Ian's assessment, ... from what I see you have done a really nice job of restoration. May I ask what you used in the process of cleaning up these pieces ?

... Ron Watson

[george trotter]

That's amazing...well worth saving...please tell us what you did/used.

[Eric H]

an astonishing result and more than satisfactory

 

Eric

[Jiro49]

Thanks to all for the compliments!

 

I used a jewelers sonic to loosen most of the rust, soaked about 3-4 hours. Then I took a tool my friend made me which is basically a pencil shape but made out of bone and used that to remove more of the rust. Then a little choji oil and emry cloth and then back to the bone tool and so on.. I lost a little metal in some places but not too much...

 

I hate seeing these old fittings go to waste and since I cant polish swords I wanted to try my hand at this. A friend is sending me a few pieces to work on for him so when they're done ill post pics of them as well..

 

Again thanks!!!!

[Soshin]

Hi Matt L.,

 

Nice job. Keep up the good work. I normally only work on plain iron as anything will inlays like that is really hard to work with. Post more photos of your future work.

 

 

 

Yours truly,

David Stiles

[Jiro49]

Will do and thanks!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Jussi Ekholm]

Stunning results, very well done. And yes please share more of your work in the future.

[Geraint]

Great results Matt, I would never have thought it possible. Just an idea, rather than emery paper have you tried a fibreglass pen? Roy swears by it. Principle being that it gets at the rust but not the base metal.

[Jiro49]

Thank you! As a matter of fact another member sent me an ebay link to those pens which I will purchase.

 

Thanks again!

[pcfarrar]

Is this the right tool to use?

 

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/270879333522

[b.hennick]

There are two makes of fiberglass pen. Liberty and eurotool. Eurotool makes two sizes 4mm and 1.7 mm.

[jason_mazzy]

I bought a couple diff size euro tool pens to try and clean up some old rusty fittings. Now my biggest question is how did you keep the Gold on there when scrubbing?