Cap Ring (Or Any) Scratch Removal

[Pennata Penna]

First of all, this is just a show and tell, not instructions per se. If you broke your pen, I will laugh at you and tell you to bugger off. But, someone has requested this, and I have time to spare, so yea. Okay, here's the step by step cap ring scratches removal on a Pelikan. Let's start this off with showing what the [first world] problem is.

 

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Multiple ring scratches where the cap ring sits on the barrel.

 

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Heavy scratches demand heavy grit (caution! Start off with a softer grit and gradually find the roughest grit needed.. in my case, 1000 wet and dry, etc.) Then after the deep scratches are gone, then let's remove the "cloud"..

 

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Gradual micromeshes applied parallel to the pen. From teal to grey.

 

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Moving on to liquid solutions. Novus #3 applied perpendicular to the barrel. Skip the official instructions, because you'll save money with plastic/cellophane instead of cloth applicator here, only very little amount needed.

 

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Now it's time to use microfibre cloth for the Novus #2.

 

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Novus #1, looking good already. And yes, I reckon it's worth to buy #1.

 

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Voila.

 

Tools used: Wet&dry sandpaper 1K-2K, Micromesh 4K-12K, Novus 1 to 3 (2 oz bottles should be right for most), Turtle Wax scratch repair, scotch tape, and microfibre cloth. And it took me a good two hours to do it. Ask away and lemme know if something's unclear etc. Hth.

 

Tony

 

PS: By the way, the pen was Pelikan MC110 with Iroshizuku Yama-guri.

[cjh]

Really beautiful job!

 

Thanks for documenting it so thoroughly.

[Chrissy]

Thanks for that. It looks really good.

[PAKMAN]

Great job documenting this process! Love it!