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Removing a Guide's Finish
Posted by: Bill Doherty (---.rdu.bellsouth.net)
Date: October 20, 2001 06:35PM

If I take a FUJI silicon carbide guide and polish the gunsmoke finish off, with a DREMEL tool and a little felt wheel, will I ruin the guide? I hope to get an antique silver looking finish to match an antique silver finish on a reel seat. I understand I won't end up with a highly polished
exact match. I hope to get some silver high-lights. I want to "kick it up a notch. BAM!" I assume the metal under the gunsmoke is stainless steel. Has any of you tryed this before?

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Re: Removing a Guide's Finish
Posted by: William (---.proxy.aol.com)
Date: October 20, 2001 08:48PM

I have accidently buffed through the gunsmoke finish when polishing a prepped guide foot and it looks sort of like what you want.

Why don't you take one and polish the foot area and see what happens. If you don't like it you're out nothing because the foot area is going to be covered with thread anyway.

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Re: Removing a Guide's Finish
Posted by: Bill Doherty (---.rdu.bellsouth.net)
Date: October 20, 2001 10:20PM

I'm guessing I can make it look like what I want. But, down the road will the bare metal oxidize or pit or worse? Is it stainless under there or another alloy? I remove the finish off of the feet when I shape them. It gets sealed in epoxy after that. It's not the cost of the guides now I am worried about, its after the rod is complete and they start to rust. Thanks for the response William.

Bill Doherty

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