It was not much work at all guys! I didn't take it a part (afraid to try that and to lazy) I sanded it with a sanding block I had here at the house which took maybe 30 minutes. I finished polishing with a nail buffer, cause that's all I had since this was a wild hair idea last night. Problem was I couldn't get the paint out of the teardrops without a lot of work so I had ordered some sample colors a while back mixed together and just brushed over the white then sanded it off. This didn't start out as a brass tear drop idea, it ened up that way when I didn't want to do that much work! I did not do it the right way, I did it my way, which took all of two hours.