Working with aluminum?

[BigIrish]

to give it a good brushed look, take a gray scotch and some paint prep paste, which is like hand soap with pumice in it and go one direction only. if you go back and forth it looks scuffed up not brushed

Yes brushed is what I'm after. Sounds like a plan, have to locate the scotch pad and that paste.

 

[cornfield customs]

i made this aluminum blister today to show the brushed look with the scotch brite and that paste. kinda hard to see but it hides a lot of the wheeling marks

 

[bob w]

Nice work on the blister. What was your procedure?

 

[cornfield customs]

anneal, hammer , english wheel, planish/ stretch, tipping die in the bead roller for the edge, english wheel. scuff with scotch brite. finished