Decided to polish my Stainless GP100

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Posted: 4/20/2015 9:54:52 AM EDT

Spent about 4 hours on it last night. Used "Mother's Mag and Aluminum Wheel" polish with some cloth type polishing wheels in my cordless drill for the most part, a little bit by hand. I think it came out pretty nice...my phone pics don't really do the finish justice...I'll try to get some better pics tonight.

I'm sure I will keep working at it by hand when I'm watching movies or something. I may even take it to the big wheel at work and hit it a little more...

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Posted: 4/20/2015 9:56:28 AM EDT

[#1]

Sweet BBQ gun!

Posted: 4/20/2015 12:25:05 PM EDT

[#2]

I like it!

I would like to see one polished to the point the finish looks like nickel plating on a Smith. I've seen the high polish on Ruger single actions but not a double action.

Please keep posting pictures of your progress if you decide to continue.

Posted: 4/20/2015 2:35:35 PM EDT

[#3]

Try switching up to Mothers Billet polish. It's a bit more aggressive on stainless. Local car parts place should have it. Use to use it on my motorcycles. I used it on my Glossy Vaqueros and my 1858 Remington black powder to really put some depth in the finish.

Posted: 4/20/2015 4:02:44 PM EDT

[#4]

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Try switching up to Mothers Billet polish. It's a bit more aggressive on stainless. Local car parts place should have it. Use to use it on my motorcycles. I used it on my Glossy Vaqueros and my 1858 Remington black powder to really put some depth in the finish.

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Thanks for the tip. I almost bought the "Billet Polish" the first time around. I have a big polisher here at work in the maintenance shop, they have some blocks of polish that work really well on stainless. I may go that route but I am a little worried about that wheel grabbing the gun and flinging it across the room! I may chicken out and just do the rest by hand.

Posted: 4/20/2015 4:49:59 PM EDT

[#5]

WOW. You CAN see a difference. Nice.

Posted: 4/20/2015 5:23:46 PM EDT

[#6]

Looks good.

Posted: 4/21/2015 12:51:44 AM EDT

[#7]

Here are more pics taken with a better camera...maybe too much better...shows the finish (and where it needs more work) in much greater detail.

Now I know I will have to keep working on it.

Damn camera! Most of those fine little brush marks were not even visible to me...until now!

Posted: 4/25/2015 1:41:07 AM EDT

[#8]

OK...these will be the last pics I inflict upon you all. I took it a little farther using the big polishing wheel at work first and then working on it some more at home with the drill and polishing wheels and some by hand.

I am pretty happy with the finish now. Not enough O's in Smoooooothe!

Posted: 4/25/2015 5:31:27 AM EDT

[#9]

Looks real good . I would stop now and think how much more to do . It looks real nice.

Posted: 4/25/2015 9:45:18 AM EDT

[#10]

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Looks real good . I would stop now and think how much more to do . It looks real nice.

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Yep...I'm done now. I like it.

Posted: 4/25/2015 11:20:04 AM EDT

[#11]

Damn, that came out real nice.

Posted: 4/25/2015 6:32:57 PM EDT

[#12]

Looks great! I've seen several polished up like that on the Ruger forum and they look amazing.

Posted: 4/25/2015 7:00:07 PM EDT

[#13]

Very, very nice!

Posted: 4/25/2015 10:56:48 PM EDT

[#14]

Nice work.

Posted: 4/26/2015 2:16:12 AM EDT

[#15]

And here I am wanting to Bead blast mine to dull the factory finish

Posted: 4/26/2015 4:38:14 AM EDT

[#16]

Unreal! Beautiful work. It shows you put a lot of effort into it, brother. I have a S&W Model 686 Plus you could do for me also! Ha!

Posted: 4/26/2015 7:26:41 PM EDT

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And here I am wanting to Bead blast mine to dull the factory finish

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If I ever go back from the high shine look...bead blasted will be next. The pics I have seen look really nice, maybe a combination of the two...I saw a pic of one with a bead blasted frame and barrel and a highly polished cylinder...looked great!

Posted: 4/26/2015 7:33:43 PM EDT

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Unreal! Beautiful work. It shows you put a lot of effort into it, brother. I have a S&W Model 686 Plus you could do for me also! Ha!

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Too bad you are not just a bit closer to Az, I would at least give you the rest of the polish and wheels I have. I'd be too afraid to do this to someone else's gun...

Posted: 4/27/2015 1:29:10 AM EDT

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If I ever go back from the high shine look...bead blasted will be next. The pics I have seen look really nice, maybe a combination of the two...I saw a pic of one with a bead blasted frame and barrel and a highly polished cylinder...looked great!

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And here I am wanting to Bead blast mine to dull the factory finish

If I ever go back from the high shine look...bead blasted will be next. The pics I have seen look really nice, maybe a combination of the two...I saw a pic of one with a bead blasted frame and barrel and a highly polished cylinder...looked great!

Beautiful work. I hand polished my 681 slowly, using Mother's Mag polish years ago to get the frame and cylinder to match the holster wear on the fronts of the revolver. I got close enough to pass a quick visual inspection, and I can tell from the pictures, yours would pass a more thorough look over.

Posted: 4/27/2015 5:42:57 AM EDT

[#20]

I guess I have another project that I want to start. Polishing my S&W Model 686 Plus should be a nice easy challenge and the results could be spectacular. I'm looking for it.

Posted: 4/28/2015 8:15:17 PM EDT

[#21]

I have zero interest in taking the time to do what you did......but you did a great job!

Posted: 4/29/2015 2:25:18 PM EDT

[#22]

beautiful. might need to polish my gp

Posted: 4/29/2015 2:40:56 PM EDT

[#23]

Nice.

Posted: 4/29/2015 11:26:54 PM EDT

[#24]

I saw a 6" GP100 on a FB gun forum that had been polished like the bottom of Your trigger guard, or almost like the shiny Vaquero's Man it looked sharp! I thought to Myself if I buy another GP100 one day I'm gonna have that done. Your looks great!! I would think about doing it to My S&W 686 but it is a first edition no dash. So I'm going to leave it alone.

Posted: 4/30/2015 5:24:12 PM EDT

[#25]

I might have to do that to mine.

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