Anyone here know about polishing copper?

You can't put a price history, and the time devoted to the restoration of history is rewarded with a deep satisfaction that money cannot replace, the toil devoted is a gift to future generations and the world of lamps itself.
and yet you mock the time I am taking with mine. My lamp will be as new once I have finished with it. I am the true savior of the lamp. Giver of life and restoration god.
 
and yet you mock the time I am taking with mine. My lamp will be as new once I have finished with it. I am the true savior of the lamp. Giver of life and restoration god.

Apologies for mocking, it looked like you were slacking for a bit there, saviors of history like yourself need to set an example of industrious devotion to the craft, the Victorian man that made that worked 16 hours per day, 6 days a week, as a savior of history you should work as they did, you must walk in their shoes.
 
Apologies for mocking, it looked like you were slacking for a bit there, saviors of history like yourself need to set an example of industrious devotion to the craft, the Victorian man that made that worked 16 hours per day, 6 days a week, as a savior of history you should work as they did, you must walk in their shoes.
Well Alan, As it came to pass that these lamps are no more, I look down at my refurbished light as master of all heritage lamp refurbishers and I thought it good.
 
Well Alan, As it came to pass that these lamps are no more, I look down at my refurbished light as master of all heritage lamp refurbishers and I thought it good.

It is rather special, a genuine piece of history saved, I was serious about walking in their shoes, what good is something from history if it doesn't prompt a thought about the part it played before our times, I know someone still living who, as a child, remembers the man coming to light the gas lamps in Aberdeenshire, electricity, something we take for granted, has been around for less than two generations depending on where you live, that is pretty remarkable.
 
That is my point exactly, bringing something from the past back to the condition that it would have looked like from new. Without intervening with modern materials, cost and time is not of any consequence, only preserving our past is the important factor.
 
I find it incredible that in our lifetime there is someone who remembers the lamp lighters. Even more incredible that there was such a job and people did it. can you imagine trying to recruit a lamp lighter nowadays?
 
I find it incredible that in our lifetime there is someone who remembers the lamp lighters. Even more incredible that there was such a job and people did it. can you imagine trying to recruit a lamp lighter nowadays?

We flick a switch and take instant light for granted, when something goes wrong we phone a spark, our grandparents remember a time without those conveniences, they lit lamps fueled by whale oil and worked every hour god sent or starved, yet give little thought to it.
 
We flick a switch and take instant light for granted, when something goes wrong we phone a spark, our grandparents remember a time without those conveniences, they lit lamps fueled by whale oil and worked every hour god sent or starved, yet give little thought to it.
Times have changed for the better technology wise, unfortunately along the way we have lost the very traditions of what made us great. The grit and determination of a hard days work has been kicked out of us and easy street is being sought at every opportunity. Traditional values meant something back in the day along with pride.
 
Its funny but I can be working on a motorway hung over a main carriageway fixing an iluminated sign with very little reward at the end of it, then I work on heritage lamps in a little village and a sense of pride and joy overcomes me. I don't care what is wrong, I will fix it come what may and in any weather. You get taken over with the same type of attitude when working on historical lamps. I imagine an archeologist must be a very satisfied person.
 
Times have changed for the better technology wise, unfortunately along the way we have lost the very traditions of what made us great. The grit and determination of a hard days work has been kicked out of us and easy street is being sought at every opportunity. Traditional values meant something back in the day along with pride.

I don't think it was kicked out of us, the most ungrateful a holes I have met never had a day of hard graft in their lives, they would die in hours if you left them anywhere in the middle east and it would always be someone else's fault, we have had nothing kicked out of us, we have had it too easy for way too long and the moaners just can't see they have it easy by comparison.
 
Possibly if they have never known anything other than everything handed to them on a plate then a days hard graft would appear very old fashioned to them. A bit like sending kids up chimneys, we dont do that anymore. But tradition and pride in work has long been lost to fast money, do as little as possible for maximum proffit. I suppose it works for some but there is something to be said for a days work for a days pay. Gives you a sense of purpose.
 
Possibly if they have never known anything other than everything handed to them on a plate then a days hard graft would appear very old fashioned to them. A bit like sending kids up chimneys, we dont do that anymore. But tradition and pride in work has long been lost to fast money, do as little as possible for maximum proffit. I suppose it works for some but there is something to be said for a days work for a days pay. Gives you a sense of purpose.

Physical work and exercise have reduced in recent years, and mental health issues have risen by much the same.

I was at an old estate recently, the gate at the back was the workers entrance, it has a gate for livestock and an L shaped gap built into the wall for workers to get in without opening the gate, I'm not that big and I had to squeeze through it, bit narrow I thought, so I asked, apparently Victorian people were much smaller and thinner, fitter and stronger, they worked 16 hour days and didn't have supermarkets.

They built Britain, we are living off the lard, we moan, they were proud, we want shiny cars, they had a bike, they worked for a better country, we just live in it and don't give them a thought.
 
Physical work and exercise have reduced in recent years, and mental health issues have risen by much the same.

I was at an old estate recently, the gate at the back was the workers entrance, it has a gate for livestock and an L shaped gap built into the wall for workers to get in without opening the gate, I'm not that big and I had to squeeze through it, bit narrow I thought, so I asked, apparently Victorian people were much smaller and thinner, fitter and stronger, they worked 16 hour days and didn't have supermarkets.

They built Britain, we are living off the lard, we moan, they were proud, we want shiny cars, they had a bike, they worked for a better country, we just live in it and don't give them a thought.
Why I am putting so much time and effort into my lamp. Lest we forget
 
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