Mike Cogswell
03-24-2013, 12:43 PM
I like to try and keep my metal planes in good shape - clean and free from oxidation. Once in a while one of them gets discolored from a fingerprint that wasn't wiped off in a reasonable time. It turns out my wife had the perfect fix - a fingernail buffing block. It's a small (about 3 x 1 1/2 x 1) block of fairly dense foam with the four larger faces covered with four grits of emory (or similar). They make a great little fingerprint eraser. A few wipes with one of the finer grits and the fingerprint is gone!