Favorite Treatments To Polish Up Your Pens?

[Tseg]

To get my pens back to a like-new exterior, unless they have gouges, I use Polywatch polish and a cotton ball/pad to polish, then Renaissance Wax and a microfiber cloth to make shine. Any other good treatments out there?

[gyasko]

Renaissance wax is no longer recommended, especially for celluloid pens.

 

I sometimes rub the metal furniture with a jewelers cloth. Other than that i leave them as they are.

[Tseg]

Renaissance wax is no longer recommended, especially for celluloid pens.

 

I sometimes rub the metal furniture with a jewelers cloth. Other than that i leave them as they are.

 

Good point about celluloid pens... I know they are temperamental. I've had good experience with Ren Wax on resin and lacquer pens.

[Paul-in-SF]

Renaissance wax is no longer recommended, especially for celluloid pens.

 

I sometimes rub the metal furniture with a jewelers cloth. Other than that i leave them as they are.

 

Is there any sort of polish or wax that is recommended or at least not damaging to celluloid pens?

 

Never mind, found answer in another thread.

Edited August 2, 2020 by Paul-in-SF

[Freddy]

If needed I use...Micro-Gloss Liquid Abrasive Type 1 on plastic and celluloid....

 

As I've said before...Renaissance Wax is garbage....

 

Fred

[corgicoupe]

Why so? It works well on wood lathe turnings.

[Fermata]

There is a lot of information on this subject in the repair thread.

 

the difficulty is that the word polish means a number of different things. some people use the word to mean the aggressive polishing of a surface to remove scratches and wear marks, others mean the work to remove finger prints or dust from a surface.

[Estycollector]

Mothers Magnesium and Aluminum Polish is what Ive used for vintage Esterbrook FPs

[PAKMAN]

Semi Chrome actually does a pretty good job polishing most pens!

[Carguy]

Semi Chrome actually does a pretty good job polishing most pens!

I will second the use of Simichrome as I have had good results with it. After than, a coat of carnuba wax and a sunshine cloth works nicely.

[Wahl]

I will second the use of Simichrome as I have had good results with it. After than, a coat of carnuba wax and a sunshine cloth works nicely.

 

 

I do not use any type of wax.

Edited August 8, 2020 by Wahl

[A Smug Dill]

I ordered a 64 fl.oz. — that's more than one litre, for the benefit of majority of (fountain pen users and) people in the world — bottle of Novus #1 Plastic Acrylic Polish earlier in August, sold and shipped by Amazon US. It was received at my delivery address in Australia this morning, (less than) all of nine days later.

 

Or, should I be more precise/"pedantic" and say, the bottle itself arrived anyway. The lid, and the bottle's contents, are a different matter. The item was originally dispatched by Amazon's warehouse in the US inside nothing more than a lightly-padded craft paper mailing bag; that part of it arrived soaked, the printed information on its mailing label largely obliterated, and with layers of "Repacked by (Australian courier company name)" tape strapped around it. There were two more layers of the local courier company's plastic mailing satchels wrapped around it, secured by more "Repacked by" tape, and they were both dripping wet on the inside. The plastic bottle itself exhibits plenty of permanent creases and physical evidence of impact from been dropped on its lid and more than one corners in transit, but the softer plastic material (as opposed to what the lid was made of) managed not to crack or split in spite of that.

 

So, no matter how good the liquid polish itself is, I'm afraid it won't be my favourite treatment now.

 

I also ordered a smaller (8 fl.oz.) bottle of Novus #2 — on the same Amazon order, no less, but dispatched separately — and it arrived this morning as well shipped all the way from the US... in a 'tough' paper envelope with no padding or void fill at all between the envelope and the bottle.

[MTHALL720]

I always thought Renaissance was the safest, but I am always open to new ideas.

[sirgilbert357]

I'll wipe them down with a soft dry cotton cloth, but I'm not polishing anything. I try to keep them as scratch free as possible, but I don't like the idea of rubbing something on a pen that removes material to make it shiny or remove small scratches. I'll just let them age and patina naturally.