Steel wool is good too - especially for rounded/curved surfaces. Needs extra care at the start and lift-off points; a bit of practice fixes that.
I am not keen on the finish produced by steel wool in a drill press giving lots of 'brushed' circular areas. John K. ----- Original Message ----- From: Nick To: neonixie-l@googlegroups.com Sent: Monday, June 09, 2014 6:53 PM Subject: [neonixie-l] Re: Frosted Metal Case Instead of This Shiny One? Its not called "frosted" - the standard term is "brushed". Easy to do. Take off the current shiny case. Get some fine "wet and dry" paper (stuff that is waterproof), a block of cork or other wood about 3" x 2" with rounded edges and some light mineral lubricating oil (like "3-in-1"). Wrap some W&D round the wooden block, wet it with the oil, and using long (full length of the piece), straight, strokes work in one direction on the piece, not lifting the block off until you've run over the end (else you'll break up the nice lines). You could convert this from smooth to brushed in maybe 30 minutes. HTH Nick -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "neonixie-l" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to neonixie-l+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send an email to neonixie-l@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/B7EADD03F03647D2826C908931BF6A17%40compunet4f9da9. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
