Cleaning Cloth

[satim19454]

Can anyone recommend a website where i can buy ONLY the cleaning cloth. Mine is yellowed from the oil.

[Curran]

Do you mean: (1) Microdear ?

(2) Traditional paper ?

 

#1 cleans with proper soap and water. Then water again.... Can be purchased at many photographyshops as appropriate for lenses.

[pcfarrar]

Just buy a roll of cleaning cloth from a gunshop.

[Grey Doffin]

Hi Timothy,

Unscented and without added lotion, white, not made from recycled paper, facial or toilet tissue will work fine for removing oil. Done properly it will not damage a polish.

Grey

[Lindus]

Tim, goto your local Jewelers, the cloths they use are perfect.

Roy

[Ray Singer]

A few years ago, Cary Condell gave me a microdear cloth from Etsumi to try as an alternative to uchiko. I have never gone back (at least as far as swords which are in fresh polish). Here is the cloth I have been using...

 

http://www.amazon.com/Microdear-Microfi ... pd_sim_p_1

[Ted Tenold]

The microdear clothes (as Ray linked) are excellent, and with good care will last many years. They're also good for handling nice tsuba and such, though I keep a seperate one for that one. They will strip a great deal of the oil from a blade so one could keep a seperate one for that too. The larger sized ones are pretty big, so they can be cut into a couple pieces or folded over themselves a few times for rotation to a fresh part.

 

I maintain them by washing periodically in cold water with Woolite, rinsing thoroughly then hang dry. They're probably dryer safe, but I just hang them.

[David Flynn]

can get microfibre cloths cheap on ebay.

[Brian]

Paul Martin sells a nice one too:

http://www.thejapanesesword.com/store-2 ... word-cloth

 

Brian