Speaker Polish? REVISITED

Lemon oil has nothing to do with lemons I am told. It is, in fact, a petroleum distillate. I have used a product that probably has little or nothing to do with oranges called Orange Glo with good results, at least initially, but like all other products it does evaporate. With wood less is best. Products with wax should be avoided as they tend to build-up and, depending on how open the grain is, fills it up. Dusting with a soft rag on a regular basis and the very occasional use of a good furniture polish is all that is required. One word of caution: always be careful around the drivers both with your hands and when using a spray bottle. And no: the type of polish used does not affect the sound, kind of like most tweaks, I would say.

Thanks guys for your great advise. I will try that home depot touch-up pen thing. TWL, what kind of polish do you recomend afterwards?

-Dave

Dave, I'm not really a polish expert. I would look at your finish and determine what is a good polish. For an "open" wood finish, I think that light oiling or something like that is fine. For lacquer finishes, I would use a wax polish. I think Pledge is a wax based product, and Hank(above) is an experienced cabinet maker, and he recommends Pledge, so that is probably a good choice.

Personally I use Goddards Antique Furniture polish. It has worked very well for me.

TWL and Hank. The speakers are a Cherry finish farnished vaneer.

Dave
Regarding polish.....Goddards is good, I use Pledge, to be honest almost all the commercial stuff will work. Manufactures of wood polish products would have you believe that you must polish furniture to protect it and regular polishing is necessary for proper care of the finish. But when you cut through the hype, people apply polish to make the finish "shine" more. A well applied varnish finish over veneer (your case) does not need anything applied to protect it.
Your original question was "anybody know how to buff that nasty scratch out". What you have learned here Dave is that you "should not" try to buff the scratch out. In doing so you risk cutting through the entire varnish finish down to the wood. Yes, you would have "removed" the scratch but this would leave you with a major refinish job on the entire surface.
Just hide the scratch as you propose, put a coat of polish on the entire speaker to even out the appearance and call it a day.
If this is not good enough then send me an email and you can call me on the phone and I'll give you other options.
For what it's worth I fixed a scratch on my Vienna Acoustics Mahler speakers(rosewood veneered, gloss varnished)using a wax stick, touch up pens and Pledge. The scratch is still there but you would have to know where to look to find it.

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