A New Family member. (Do I qualify for a badge now?)

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Cliven

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Our newest member of the family arrived this morning and she's a Beauty! She's the raw aluminum posing with her brothers and sisters. Absolutely gorgeous and fits right in. <sniff>I'm a proud papa.....again.
 

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Actually you don't qualify for a badge. THe "Badge" is only given to new Reonauts that have purchased their first Reo and have posted a photograph of said Reo. If I were to be giving badges to all the Reonauts thats all I would be doing 24/7. Social services would find me unbathed with 2 inch finger nails, a beard bigger than Dennis's and looking like Nick Nolte's mug shot. See below:
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Even I can't go down that long, lonesome road and I've been to some pretty dark places but thats another story best told another time and around a fire with smores.

I digress, sorry.

Anyway here's what I'll do for you my friend. There's only two of these in existence. They are so rare that the most interesting man in the world doesn't own one. I have both of them. They were a gift passed down from my great grandfather, to grandfather, to father, to me. I won't tell the suffering these men went through to pass them on to me. Here's a pic of me getting one of the two.
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So, no you don't get a badge but I hope this will take its place. I know a really, really good place to keep it if you are ever captured by the Provarati hooligans.

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Yes, the rare Reo Secret Decoder Ring.

Garbage pickup is Wednesday in Reoville.
 

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Filthy-Beast, are those your REO's posted in your avatar? How about the left one. Is that a polished aluminum? If so, I'd assume it was similar to the raw one. How did you polish it? Very nice collection yourself.
Yes those are mine and hoping to expand it with more wood next Friday. The one on the left is a LP Reo Grand in Tumbled Raw Aluminum, its my rough use one and when it get's too beat up I may polish it or just brush it. People who have polished them to a mirror report they are fingerprint magnets. It took a couple of tumbles to the pavement this week and you can see some scratches on it. It's not easy to get a pic that captures the finish. I do really like it, it's not rough, it feels silky smooth.

If I was going to just polish the current finish I'd use Mothers Mag Polish. To get a mirrored look I'd sand with 600, 800, 1500, 2000 and then hit with Mothers.


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