You can definitely polish them as described, did it with a really beat up Softail Custom rear solid wheel years ago that I had on my WG. That said, real PITA and lots of effort. You will be sanding and polishing well past your hand cramping, and then still have a bunch of hours to go. When I did the wheel I would polish it every night with scotch brite for about a week, one hour each night. Then Mother's for an hour every night. Then decided to go for more Scotch Brite etc, etc. Long process but it looked killer after. Lots of work is all I am trying to say, oh and I then had to redo the Mother's every season to keep up with it.

Rear spokes on the bike now, powder coated black, no extra maintenance needed. Good luck.

 

Spent a couple hours over the weekend on the fork lowers:



before



after


I guess I could keep going, but they look good enough

 

Looks good!!!

 

Well done

 

Thanks fella's

 

I used paint stripper on mine, then wet sanded and polished, came out nice

 

Looks great, good job man.....

I did a similar as architect with a solid Fatboy wheel. Wet sanding and polishing.. guaranteed 12 hours of labor... But well worth the results....

 

Make sure the clear coating has been removed, if your doing a lot of sanding you're wasting your time.

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I started with 80 grit and worked my way to 1500 and wet sanded it with mothers mag and aluminum polish. I had some beers and sanded then polished. A couple friends stopped by. We had some more beers.... cI have a Dayton grinder and buffer but really did not want to take the forks off to use the machine

 

Somehow the beers always make it look better.....Till morning that is.....