Best way to shine up a rusticated pipe?

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Isakowitch
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Best way to shine up a rusticated pipe?

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Hello, i was wondering seeing how my main focus when it comes to pipemaking is rustication, on how i can best make my rusticated pipes really look shiny as if almost to make you lose your sight?
I know of the danish oil method and cannabua wax, however with cannabua wax it so easily gets stuck in crevices and builds up in small clumps... i was wondering if there is any other methods?
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Re: Best way to shine up a rusticated pipe?

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Shellac. Slather it on and don't touch it until it dries.

Also, if your rustication is super "toothy" you should knock down some of that with a brass brush, otherwise by the time you apply enough shellac to make it even remotely shiny, it will look like one of those dandelion encased in acrylic paperweights.
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