Originally Posted by J T CUNNINGHAM

"But if you are polishing out pits in rusted stuff you are going to loose detail and no way around it. If you don't, it will look terrible and you will wonder what you spent the money on."
Salubrious.

"Real platers" never polish-out pits; they fill the pits with braze, for steel, or, usually for pot metal, a propriety rod. These repairs are then buffed-down to be level with the parent metal.

The reason for this, is not to create a wow or a noticeable lack of visual continuity in the shine. Think of an auto that has had a great deal of low calibre body-work and been painted black.

Actually this type of nightmare is most always finished-off with white paint just to hide the body-man's sins.

BTW, the labour is by the hour and as a long-ago restorer friend of mind proclaimed, "And we work slowly."


Regards,
J T