Made a start to refurbish this Reuben Heaton ebonite reel
The front plate having a few problems and there are broken off a few pieces from the rim that i want to repair.
First thing dissemble the reel and cleaning all parts, polish the brass and the front plate ebonite to reduce the the scratches and the two previous repaired crack on the front plate, not a easy job but is possible to make this reel look good
the crack show best on the back side, the repairs are good but the finish not
these pictures shows the work that must be done and the next pictures the progress
cleaned the backplate and polished the brass
the brass cross cleaned up and give it a first polishing job
polished the latch and cleaned the bobbin
Polishing the front plate and put linseed oil on it after cleaning it to get more original color back
wiped the oil off after a few minutes and the result it good so far, it need to be polished a few times more to get some gloss back
just to get a idea how this reel is going to look when done, wil update this post when finished
