[TheForge] An abrasive product to consider?

[Graham Whaley]

The 'miracle sponge' items are likely melamine foam, yes, a different
thing. They are on my list of things to play with sometime.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melamine_foam
I'll keep an eye out in the $ (well, £ here :-) ) stores for the
Scotch Brite scum erasers - something else to play with :-)

Let's see, knife content... last thing I made was a pair of cocobolo
scales for my SAK my father gave me maybe, err, 40 years ago. He
bought it back from a trip to Switzerland (one each for me and my
brother). It's a wenger, not the more common victorinox. The scales
managed to survive the last 35 years after I melted them with some
ethyl acetate, but finally they had cracked and fallen off enough
(from the knife leaping off my keyring all by itself), that they had
to be replaced.

Cocobolo was the nearest thing I had to something suitably 'red'. Over
the last 6 months they have developed a really nice patina rattling
around with my keys.
Next is to do some lignum vitae scales - I have some old wooden crown
green bowling balls (no longer useful as bowls) lined up for that...

 Graham

On Thu, 8 Nov 2018 at 11:31, Bruce . <freemab222 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Recently I came across Scotch Brite (TM) Soap Scum Erasers -- a two-layer
> sponge product that touts "Removes stubborn stains without chemicals."  Well
> since soap scum was rendering my otherwise fine shower stall rather dingy,
> I gave it a try.
>
> The product appears to be abrasive, but extremely mildly so.  It did a find
> job of polishing the soap scum and hard-water deposits off chrome,
> aluminum, glazed porcelain, and glass in my shower.  The metals came out
> gleaming.  I give it an A+ grade for the application.
>
> Accordingly, I wondered whether it might have any application to (fine)
> patination.  (Even it if does, there might be much cheaper methods to do
> the same thing.)  I'm not in a position to test this, so thought I'd throw
> it out for others to consider.
>
> To date, the only place I've found the Scotch Bright product is in Dollar
> General stores (and I've looked elsewhere).  I found a similar product in
> Dollar Tree (IIRC) called "Scrub Buddies" "2-in-1 Quick Eraser".  A product
> found in Walmart, "Great Value" "Miracle Cleaning Eraser" does not seem to
> be at all the same.
>
> If anyone tries these on metalwork, I'd be interested.
> Bruce
> NJ
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