In the summer of 2018 I started metal polishing as a hobbyist just like everyone else, with a three-step polishing kit. Over the next year and a half I started practicing and getting comfortable with a polisher on a set of 16.5x9.75 Weld Roadhawks. At that time I was in the Navy stationed at Norfolk, VA which was only 2 hours from the best wheel polisher in the country, Chris Poyner. In the fall of 2019 I spent a weekend with him to learn and he invited me back to be his apprentice. I would go to work for the Navy Mon-Fri then polish at Chris’s Fri-Sun as a side gig.

I would continue to do that until I left the Navy in August of 2020 and started polishing full time for Chris. That continued until I moved back home to Michigan in November of 2020 to continue polishing full time on my own. Shortly after moving home I approached James at Weldcraft Wheels in Livonia, Michigan, and pitched my idea of offering polishing to his widened wheel customers. After doing that for a while I started buying my own wheels to widen and offer for sale after completion to keep myself busy during slow season.

Every set of wheels I polish I strive to make better than the previous set; which has forced me to find new ways to restore them to better than new condition. Show quality is my standard which means I’m not the metal polisher for everyone, nor do I want to be.

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