Put a small amount of silver leaf rub n buff on your finger and rub it all over the hinges and screws.
Rub n buff for door hinges.
In fact the hinges look the best.
Continue this until you have the whole piece covered.
Edited to add it does sometimes help to sand lightly before applying to achieve a nice smooth finish.
Use a q tip to help get in the little crevices.
I love spray paint and rub n buff equally.
Krylon s gold leaf is the best metallic gold spray paint i ve found to date to mimic brass or give you a warm golden glow on your hardware.
The awesome thing about rub n buff is that 1.
Buff with a soft cloth to acheive the hand rubbed lustrous finish.
Soak the hinges and screws in a mixture of hot water and dawn dish soap.
Updating hinges with rub n buff such an easy way to quickly change the color of your hinges or other hardware.
I tend to use grecian gold and antique gold over and over but it comes in 12 colors total you can buy a sampler of all the colors from amazon.
They are two totally different products and yet they are equally awesome in my opinion.
If you leave too much residual paint on them when you apply the rub n buff it will come out bumpy.
A little silver leaf r b on the brass hinges was all it took to match the new doorknobs without going through the labor of taking down and then rehanging the doors.
A tube of rub n buff will run you under 4 and each hinge requires only a smidgen.
Rub n buff dries in a few seconds.
Rub n buff is a waxy finish made from imported carnauba waxes fine metallic powders and pigments.
A couple of weeks later i finished up with all the upstairs hinges.
The rub n buff has worn off the most used handles so i am slowly replacing them with nickel handles but i m leaving the hinges because they look great and no wearing off of rub.
You can use it on almost any surface wood metal glass etc.
Rub n buff is a waxy metallic finish that comes in several golden shades such as gold leaf depicted but also look for antique gold and european gold.
I ve used it on sconces.
I did not take the hinges off just taped around them.
You can also sand lightly in between coats.
You don t need to prime first 2.
Add a small dollop of the compound to your cloth and start to rub it onto the hardware almost like your trying to clean it.
Make sure you try to get all the excess of the handle buffing it out with a clean side of the rag.
However i ve been asked via email numerous times how i go about.
The more paint you get off the smoother the end finish will be.
