How To Remove Scratches From Sterling Silver Parker

[arashdeepsinghmann]

Hi There,

I bought all of my Parker pens as new so they dont have any scratch at all but now I am looking for one old Parker Sonnet to buy and on ebay I saw one its MK1 Sonnet but its not new and has some scratches here and there on silver body and also on cap clip and cap band which is gold plated. these scratches doesnt look like deep cuts or dings at all these are minor scratches but visible.

So my question is is there a way to make it like new by removing scratches from it or any store that can do it for me if yes how much it will cost me to restore the whole pen.

I will appreciate your help.

Thanks

[OcalaFlGuy]

Fleabay is loaded with fake Sonnets, some that are very hard to tell outwardly from the real deal.

 

The only other pen possibly counterfeited as often is the MBs and maybe the Duponts.

 

Personally I would avoid a Fleabay Sonnet like a cold sore ridden West Memphis hooker.

 

(And I buy Most of my pens on Ebay.)

 

Bruce in Ocala, FL

[arashdeepsinghmann]

Fleabay is loaded with fake Sonnets, some that are very hard to tell outwardly from the real deal.

 

The only other pen possibly counterfeited as often is the MBs and maybe the Duponts.

 

Personally I would avoid a Fleabay Sonnet like a cold sore ridden West Memphis hooker.

 

(And I buy Most of my pens on Ebay.)

 

Bruce in Ocala, FL

 

Thanks for the advise.. i am in this business from long time now so I can tell which one is fake and which one is not. the one I am looking at is not fake for sure. I can garauntee it. anyway my question is not weather I should buy from ebay or not my question is if there is a way to remove fine scratches from silver pen and its gold platting.

Thankas again for your advise..

cheers

[professionaldilettante]

Fleabay is loaded with fake Sonnets, some that are very hard to tell outwardly from the real deal.

 

The only other pen possibly counterfeited as often is the MBs and maybe the Duponts.

 

Personally I would avoid a Fleabay Sonnet like a cold sore ridden West Memphis hooker.

 

(And I buy Most of my pens on Ebay.)

 

Bruce in Ocala, FL

 

Thanks for the advise.. i am in this business from long time now so I can tell which one is fake and which one is not. the one I am looking at is not fake for sure. I can garauntee it. anyway my question is not weather I should buy from ebay or not my question is if there is a way to remove fine scratches from silver pen and its gold platting.

Thankas again for your advise..

cheers

You could hand polish it out with a piece of flannel, or just have a jeweler do it. However, if it's plated, you're SOL if you don't have the capabilities of replating the gold.

[OcalaFlGuy]

There's no mention if it's the Silver Ciselle or not. Polishing out a scratch without disturbing/erasing the dark part of the crosshatch on a Ciselle would not be fun.

 

I've heard tell that the gold plating on Sonnet clips wears off if you look at it sternly.

 

(And I won't even bother reiterating that some of the fakes Are So Good that the best way to tell is to scratch the underneath of the nib and see if it's plated or not. <Shouldn't be plated.> Parker even has to keep changing the factory packaging because as soon as they change it, the counterfeiters start copying the new packaging. Hey, I guess if you got a authentic Sonnet sniffin' dog, you're set! )

 

Bruce in Ocala, FL-I want Rick Krantz's sumgai sniffin' dawg myself

[Rajesh]

I have had great success with Maguire"s carnauba wax paste with my Sterling Silver Sheaffer Imperial. You can try that out.

[Joe in Seattle]

I only use flannel cloth on my Ciselle. The tarnish doesn't return if it is used regularly.

[arashdeepsinghmann]

thank you all.. I don't think so any polishing cloth can help me as that cloth would make very fine scratches on my Fougere Pen. I want some one who can just polish it so that it looks like new from every angle even if you see it from very close you don't see any sign of scratches at all.

 

I hope there is a way to do that...

Thanks

[Bo Bo Olson]

I want my tarnish on my sterling silver cisele P-75....I like a neat shade of silver gray.

Yep, hey fella is that a chrome pen or is is silver?

 

After all any one can have a chrome pen, or shinned up silver.

 

It's your pen.

There is a sulfur treatment you can do to get the black lines back into the cisele or silver cross hatching of your sterling silver P-75.

 

I was just looking at my P-75 BP, ....I guess my silver gray cold be confused for some sort of stainless steel.

I know better, any one with any silver pen experience knows better.

So IMO all a shinny silver pen does is show some one who don't know much....Nice looking Chrome pen.

Edited September 3, 2011 by Bo Bo Olson

[SheilaM]

There are a couple of ways to do this, but some of it depends on how deep the scratches are. I think the best option would be to take it to a jeweler to have it polished. A jewelers cloth is a possibility for surface scratches, but anything deeper I would rather have an experienced person with professional equipment deal with.

[ceejaybee]

thank you all.. I don't think so any polishing cloth can help me as that cloth would make very fine scratches on my Fougere Pen. I want some one who can just polish it so that it looks like new from every angle even if you see it from very close you don't see any sign of scratches at all.

 

I hope there is a way to do that...

Thanks

 

I can't help feeling that if you were to buy a used pen with scratches with the intention of restoring it you may be letting yourself in for a whole lot of disappointment and you'll never be truly happy with it as you seem very particular in what you are looking for.

 

The first problem being that as mentioned earlier the goldplating won't take much polishing before it wears through and the second is the sterling finish was originally a dull/ semi-matt type of finish complete with the tinest of 'imperfections' produced in manufacture, if you polish it enough to remove even the finest of scratches surely you'll end up with a shiny finish that's not true to the Sonnet Cisele style. If I were you I'd be patient and wait for a NOS example, that way you'll get exactly what you're looking for

Good Luck in whatever you decide to do

[arashdeepsinghmann]

thank you all.. I don't think so any polishing cloth can help me as that cloth would make very fine scratches on my Fougere Pen. I want some one who can just polish it so that it looks like new from every angle even if you see it from very close you don't see any sign of scratches at all.

 

I hope there is a way to do that...

Thanks

 

I can't help feeling that if you were to buy a used pen with scratches with the intention of restoring it you may be letting yourself in for a whole lot of disappointment and you'll never be truly happy with it as you seem very particular in what you are looking for.

 

The first problem being that as mentioned earlier the goldplating won't take much polishing before it wears through and the second is the sterling finish was originally a dull/ semi-matt type of finish complete with the tinest of 'imperfections' produced in manufacture, if you polish it enough to remove even the finest of scratches surely you'll end up with a shiny finish that's not true to the Sonnet Cisele style. If I were you I'd be patient and wait for a NOS example, that way you'll get exactly what you're looking for

Good Luck in whatever you decide to do

 

Thanks a lot.. you got me right sir. I am very particular about things I buy and I use :embarrassed_smile: . I think best idea as you suggested will be just to wait for a new pen. I dont wanna buy a pen if i cant make it look like new.

Thanks for all your suggestions.

cheers