First very successful hand restoration

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A pair of Hamilton 16 size pocket watch hands restored for a long term project watch, not my first bluing, but my first really meticulous polishing job. Through 12 grits of diamond paste, repeated cleaning, bluing, then attempting a black polish on the minute hand boss.

I can't say I achieved a true black polish because it isn't a perfectly flat surface. But I got it very close. I tried to use a technique as demonstrated by Roger Smith but didn't get a good polish when running it face down against either a smooth steel block or glass. The steel was probably a little too hard and abrasive and the glass didn't keep the paste in place well. Maybe lapping film on glass would have worked better and I will get some soon. But ultimately I just taped the hand to a steel block so the blued area was masked and worked the finest 6 grits of diamond paste over the boss with pegwood. The polish is very nice and consistent now but it could be flatter.

And a special shout to Macro Restorations (Leo Vidal) on YouTube from whom I lifted a lot of the hand polish technique.

The small seconds needs to be blued once more as I am not happy with it, but otherwise I am very pleased with the results of about 4 hours work.