Do you hate dealing with 0000 steel wool like I do? It rusts, it’s dusty, and the fine wire attaches
itself to steel tools (they especially like my gravers). Yuk. I just tried some fine bronze wool and
it works great, and with far less dust! It even leaves sterling with a glossier surface than steel
wool since it’s softer. I ordered this small package to try it and will be reordering a larger
quantity soon.
Bronze will is used in furniture refinishing and anywhere restoration work is done on wooden boats. It is necessary for a Bristol Finish on marine bright work.
I checked Amazon for bronze wool and came up with a similar product by Homax. It’s a bit less expensive so do you think the quality would not be as good as the Lustersheen bronze wool?
Lustersheen and Rhodes are both made of .002” bronze. I haven’t tried the Rhodes which is made in China. Though more costly I plan on sticking with the Lustersheen made in Maine.
My feeling is that the only way to tell how it will work is to try it… I say this because I have found HUGE differences in different brands of “0000” steel wool!
FWIW – I wanted to try both the fine and medium. Through the bay it would have been $14.12 w/shipping for 4 pads (2 each), but through the lustersheen online site it was $16.65 w/shipping for 6 pads (3 each).
Yes, I have some and I love the stuff also - BUT use gloves as it tends to have a greater tendency to get tiny micro-slivers under skin and then they tend to fester - or so I have have heard.
Marty Hykin
Not sure if my reply got through first time. Good stuff BUT I believe it has a tendency to get slivers into skin and they tend to fester or irritate more than steel wool - so gloves advised.