How to make a frame shinier?

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Framar

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Everyone always wants to tone down the shine - I wish to do the opposite here - to match a frame that a customer obtained elsewhere.

It is LJ 203235. A leafed gold with a dull brownish wash overtop. I have tried various solvents and substances to remove some of this wash - even in the panel would be great. But I seem to remove either too much or too little.

HALP!!!

(Have tried Magic Eraser, Liberon 0000 steel wool, lighter fluid, mineral spirits, denatured alcohol, isopropyl alcohol, lacquer thinner, acetone, and methyl hydrate.)
 
You might get results using good old johnson and johnson paste wax by itself or mix in some rottenstone, a little at first and more if you need more abrasive
 
The John and Johnson Paste Wax worked beautifully - not to take off the dull overcoat but to give it a glossy surface. Without dulling it like even a spray gloss would.

Cool idea, thanks, Mary Ann!!!
 
Welcome to the paste wax cult. I can't live without it.. I finish all kinds of things with it,esp. sculpture stands. Works BEAUTIFULY over acrylics. Swoon...... L
 
Glad to hear it worked!!!


Also like to use
9k=
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Comes is different colors. .

If I need just a little color, add the lincoln to J&J paste wax.
 
Briwax! It rules. Just ask Nicole...
 
No visible difference in the degree of shine from J&J and Liberon waxes. So I'll save the expensive stuff for other jobs... :party:
 
Chuck the exspensive wax! You can mix Johnson's with all sorts of neat stuff to get AWESOME effects! L.
 
cvm said:
Briwax! It rules. Just ask Nicole...
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Sorry, but Briwax does anything but rule...........it stinks for months,
and the turpins and solvents in it are the worst thing possible for
ANY finish.
But then . . . that only applies to 49 states in the union.

Shine is a factor of reflection and refraction . . . to make something shiney
you have to make it smoother..... wax isn't even close to doing that.
By nature the best it is going to get is 900 grit - - satin-gloss.
You need to polish it out to 24,000 or 36,000 grit. That would take a thick
top coat, and Maquire's ultra fine.
 
Hey Baer, what was the grit on that red stuff you sent me? For sharpening? You sent me 40 lifetimes supply, as I recall...

I also have that auto glass polishing stuff -

Now I have to experiment some more tomorrow.....
 
Wanna know what I do?

No?


Well I'll tell anyway....

If you do waxing regularly, keep a rag/duster/whatever just for applying the wax. It will get saturated in time and look like Shrek's underpants, but don't discard it. You can use it for jobs where you want to apply wax to delicate surfaces where the solvents would do harm. The heat generated by the buffing action will soften the dried wax on the rag enough to transfer to the surface and do the trick.

Happiness is a fluffy duster. :smiley:
 
T-shirts,love em for waxing,and buffing.you can get a really gorgeous buffed finish with just a piece of old t shirt fabric and a lot of elbow grease. Oh,and Johnsons tinted with a bit of artist oil paint? Marvy. Been told this won't work.....but.. nothing but 100% success for me.Course I am a bit,erm..weird. L
 
Plastic polish works great too! Not the spray but the pasty stuff.
 
Framar said:
Hey Baer, what was the grit on that red stuff you sent me? For sharpening? You sent me 40 lifetimes supply, as I recall...

I also have that auto glass polishing stuff -

Now I have to experiment some more tomorrow.....
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Rouge is 1,200

Why do you think I sent you a third of my 100 lifetimes.....

[no . . . math is right... my 33.33 usage is at least your 40] :D
 
Framar said:
Everyone always wants to tone down the shine - I wish to do the opposite here - to match a frame that a customer obtained elsewhere.

It is LJ 203235. A leafed gold with a dull brownish wash overtop. I have tried various solvents and substances to remove some of this wash - even in the panel would be great. But I seem to remove either too much or too little.

HALP!!!

(Have tried Magic Eraser, Liberon 0000 steel wool, lighter fluid, mineral spirits, denatured alcohol, isopropyl alcohol, lacquer thinner, acetone, and methyl hydrate.)
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Don't laugh, but we had a similar situation last week and brightend up the wash over the moulding with compressor oil. It was late in the day, the customer needed the job in an hour, and no other quick fix was working. I'm not saying this is the recommended treatment, but it worked in a pinch. We could not use any type of abrasion because the moulding was one of those thin olive wood veneers.
 
Sorry, Peter, I don't own any drinkable spirits.

No, I take that back, someone who has been sober for over 20 years once left the dogends of a bottle of Glenlivet (sp?) and I see it in the back of the cupboard upon occasion. :party:
 
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