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Hi,
I was wondering what type and brand of wood polish you use to polish the speaker cabinet? Or how you clean it?I have Totem Forrest.
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Hello,I use a product called Preservation Polish (stewmac.com) This is used on expensive guitars to polish and clean them down to their original finish. This stuff works! I have a pair of Harbeth P3-ES2s that I recovered from the brink of disaster with this product. OMG.
The best part is this stuff is silicone free and doesn't leave a coating at all. You apply the stuff, let it sit for 3 minutes and buff off. Excellent on cabinets, too...
That stuff makes it hard to do any kind of refinishing.This is a good article on the topic of wood cleaning:
http://extension.usu.edu/files/publications/publication/FL-HI-500.pdf
Currently , my speaker is still shine..but i just want to know ahead how to maintain it in case...:) I normally use fiber cloth (bought from Costco) and wipe off the dust . Only when i see finger print or smear,i dip that cloth into warm water and lighty clean it.
You would not be so quick with the polishes if you had an acrylic or polyuerthane based finish. In those cases simply buffing with soft cloth should be enough. And you might be surprised at how often that's exactly what your veneer is finished with in speakers. I don't know how much lacquer based stuff you see any more.Most wood "polishes" contain some sort of oil or wax. Both build up on the surface and can actually attract dirt and dust more! Frequent waxing leaves a dulling buildup eventually. Scratching the surface with the steel wool and filling it with wax or oil also will eventually degrade the finish. All of these will look good at first, but not look good when you really see what's happening.
So I'm still one for doing the gentle wiping first, then buffing in many instances without the wax or oil buildup, regardless of the actual sealer/finish material.
It's true that furniture finishes are done with successively fine sanding with paper or steel wool or other abrasives (pumice, etc.)after each layer and before the next one. So I'm not saying that wax, oil or abrasives have no place in true furniture finishing. Only that what I've seen and read from pros suggests that you stay away from this at home just for polishing the sheen.
This is not what I'd say if you were actually trying to touch up a spill or a scratch, however, since in that case you might want to actually re-finish a small portion of the outer surface. And for cleaning some surfaces you might indeed need to use furniture refinishing methods.
Before anyone flames me, I'm just passing along advice I've been given and found to be accurate in my home situations. But I will tell you that my father, grandfathers and uncles were all master finishers; it's not the "genetic knowledge" that I'm claiming here, it's their advice...
For true wood veneers use Howard Feed-n-Wax,a great furniture cleaner/polish...
My thiels have a real wood veneer, for year i cleaned with a rag and some wood cleaner spray from the grocery store. (Liquid Gold maybe?)Taking the advice of a local speaker guru, i now use OOOO steel wool and a wood cleaning oil....Minwax or Old English i think.
the veneer looks a whole lot better using the fine steel wool and oil.
just pour the oil on the steel wool, and clean along the grain.
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