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Author Topic: What do you think about Handle Restauration/conservation this way?  (Read 295 times)

Toronado

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What do you think about Handle Restauration/conservation this way?
« on: August 19, 2022, 06:16:16 AM »
Hi,

I want to show you a handle I restored with some Vintage look. The Problem was the lower quality 90ies handle combined with black dirt of (I think) very much grabbing with coaly gloves.
I couldn't grind very much not to loose the lettering.

This is what came out. Sealed with plenty layers of Owatrol Oil:

 
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JEBIV

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Re: What do you think about Handle Restauration/conservation this way?
« Reply #1 on: August 19, 2022, 06:33:53 AM »
Good enough for me
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michaelmilitello

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What do you think about Handle Restauration/conservation this way?
« Reply #2 on: August 19, 2022, 08:49:15 AM »
Clean but with patina is nice. 

Far better than “Glass-reinforced nylon” or some such nonsense. 


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Stoneage

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Re: What do you think about Handle Restauration/conservation this way?
« Reply #3 on: August 19, 2022, 09:56:17 AM »
Nice I like it.
A trick used by shooters for wood gun-stocks might work too.
Clean with "Murphy's Oil Soap", just follow the instructions & scrub well with a mild scrubbing pad like the "non scratch ScotchBrite"
& reoil with a few light coats (NOT one big thick one) of well rubbed in Linseed oil.
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Chesapeake Weber

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Re: What do you think about Handle Restauration/conservation this way?
« Reply #4 on: August 20, 2022, 07:37:37 PM »
Looks better than what I did. I did a decent sanding job everywhere but the Weber lettering.  After that I tung oiled it really good.  You did a good thing!   You done good!




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bamakettles

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Re: What do you think about Handle Restauration/conservation this way?
« Reply #5 on: August 21, 2022, 05:14:33 AM »
Love the original look..  well done!


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Toronado

  • Smokey Joe
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Re: What do you think about Handle Restauration/conservation this way?
« Reply #6 on: August 21, 2022, 10:45:22 AM »
Here's the whole grill this evening. And yes I agree, a bad wood handle is better than a bad plastic.
Ist's always a struggle with this last wood handles.

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