Rub N Buff For Door Hinges

You can use it on almost any surface wood metal glass etc.

Rub n buff for door hinges.

Pick up a very small amount of rub n buff using fingertip and rub it evenly in a gentle rubbing motion rather than strokes over smooth surface or raised designs. Use a q tip to help get in the little crevices. They are two totally different products and yet they are equally awesome in my opinion. A couple of weeks later i finished up with all the upstairs hinges.

The rub n buff has worn off the most used handles so i am slowly replacing them with nickel handles but i m leaving the hinges because they look great and no wearing off of rub. Continue this until you have the whole piece covered. I did all the downstairs hinges in an afternoon. I love spray paint and rub n buff equally.

The more paint you get off the smoother the end finish will be. Add a small dollop of the compound to your cloth and start to rub it onto the hardware almost like your trying to clean it. I tend to use grecian gold and antique gold over and over but it comes in 12 colors total you can buy a sampler of all the colors from amazon. Edited to add it does sometimes help to sand lightly before applying to achieve a nice smooth finish.

If you leave too much residual paint on them when you apply the rub n buff it will come out bumpy. However i ve been asked via email numerous times how i go about. Krylon s gold leaf is the best metallic gold spray paint i ve found to date to mimic brass or give you a warm golden glow on your hardware. I ve used it on sconces.

A tube of rub n buff will run you under 4 and each hinge requires only a smidgen. Rub n buff dries in a few seconds. Soak the hinges and screws in a mixture of hot water and dawn dish soap. You can also sand lightly in between coats.

Buff with a soft cloth to acheive the hand rubbed lustrous finish. A little silver leaf r b on the brass hinges was all it took to match the new doorknobs without going through the labor of taking down and then rehanging the doors. The awesome thing about rub n buff is that 1. Make sure you try to get all the excess of the handle buffing it out with a clean side of the rag.

You don t need to prime first 2. In fact the hinges look the best. Rub n buff is a waxy metallic finish that comes in several golden shades such as gold leaf depicted but also look for antique gold and european gold. I did not take the hinges off just taped around them.

Updating hinges with rub n buff such an easy way to quickly change the color of your hinges or other hardware.