Nickel Triple Lock: to polish or not??

[The Gila Bender]

Looks nice! Great to see a spiffed up TL. Well done.
Here's 12742, a .455 TL, circa 1913, shipped 12/29/17. It's been nickeled at some point and it's a beauty!

 

[ironhead7544]

Good job. I like nickel and it is supposed to be shiny.

 

[g8rb8]

O.K. I spent a couple of hours today polishing my nickel
Triple Lock to remove the milky finish, and completed the
task with a light coat of Ren Wax. It turned out quite well,
and is now bright and shiny. I had to wait until the sun went
down to photograph it outside because the glare was too
much and hard to photograph.

The streaks on the side plate and opposite side in the last
three pictures are background reflections.

Thanks for all the advice.

I think it looks great, polished or unpolished, but I think it looks even nicer, and still retains it's aged character, after polishing. I think there is a certain logic to polishing followed by waxing similar to cleaning a car before waxing. I imagine you removed some fine rust and surface dirt with the polishing leaving a cleaner surface for the wax.

John
Scoundrel and Ne'er-Do-Well in Training

 

[05CarbonDRZ]

Good choice,I think that polishing Nickel the right way(by Hand) can't hurt a thing.