Imperial KK0059 Stove Polish Paste, Black, 6oz. Jar

Heavy paste, goes on easily, buffs to a shine

Seems to work well and looks great

Worked great for my application! Covered very well, looks awesome!

We bought a 1983 Vermont Castings wood stove from FB marketplace that had been sitting in a garage for a VERY long time. It was fully intact, but had heavy surface rust and needed a good cleaning and refinish. This paste had good ratings and was the right price, so I gave it a shot.I cleaned the stove with 2 different 3M stripping pads and then cleaned with Red Scotch brite pads. After the clean up and a wipe clean, I applied this paste. It's very easy to use and very thick, so a little goes a long way. Fair warning: It's VERY messy. Make sure you prep the area where you intend to apply it and definitely wear gloves.Our stove looks BRAND NEW!!! I am very pleased with the finished look of our 37 year old stove, however after our first lighting, it is putting off one hell of an odor. I am hoping that it will dissipate, but as of now we have the stove burning with all the windows open trying to get the smell out. I'd say it's a mix between plastic and burning hair. My kids won't even watch TV in the family room cuz of this smell.I will update the review in a week once we know if and when the smell goes away.Edit for Update: the smell goes away after a couple strong fires.

makes your stove look like it is brand new

Used it on touchup areas on top of my gas range. A mess to apply, and although it looked good at first, the stain never kept rubbing off on my fingers and on any dish rag that touched it. It's now months afterwards, and I've even scrubbed it down with dish soap and water and additional rags. It's still rubs off on my fingers and I recently ruined two new dishrags due to the black stain. I just can't seem to get the excess off no matter what I do. I'd never buy this again and I threw it away after the first use.

This stuff works amazing. People leaving anything but a 5 Star review are either trying to use this on stoves that are in serious need of restoration or they are lacking mentally. We hadn't done any maintenance to the stove part for almost 4 years. You can see in the pics it started to rust. We thought we would need to sand, wire brush, repaint, etc. but this polish cleaned it right up. It was very easy to use. Took about 30-45 minutes to do all sides. Very minimal effort and took the time to clean the glass inside and out. It looks brand new. No odor. Will be recommending this to friends. Thanks for a great product!

Phew, watch out if your stove is textured at all. I'm a "city boy" and as such didn't grow up knowing about things like how to care for a wood stove. That said, I'm an eager pupil of old ways, and decided there must be a proper polish to keep cast iron looking good. Sure enough here it was, but no real instructions were to be found anywhere except "wipe on and let dry". Gee, thanks.It happens my stove is textured with a "coffee bean" pattern in the castings, and as such was very hard to wipe on lightly with a cloth. I wound up taking palmfuls of the stuff and basically gooping up every surface I could reach, and giving it two days to dry. This process took a while, and wound up using the whole 6oz jar for my stove. Seemed like a lot, but then.. who am I to say?Fast-forward to today:1. My hands which had been stained black like a gorilla from the application process have been scrubbed back to about a 20% gray tone. Getting better.2. A particularly cold day hits and I decide to warm up the workshop with a fire in my beautiful matte black spic-n-span stove. All's well for the first 10 minutes then suddenly, as the stove is getting to temperature, smoke starts rolling off every surface I polished. "It'll burn off" I think to myself. 30 minutes pass. My workshop is now down to about 8 inches of visibility, and my throat burns like I've been smoking Camel Reds. I am frantically googling to see what to do about this. NO RESULTS.Finally I decide to go nuts, and I take a pile of rags and some welding gloves and start polishing the stove. It smokes worse than ever, but gradually starts to calm down. Each time I buff with a rag a plume of white vapor rolls up then gradually diminishes. Eventually I go nuts and grab a stiff natural-bristled floor scrubber and a bucket of water, go at the stove like a pissed-off deck hand, making a monsoon of smoke and steam and spraying speckles of coal black water.The storm relents, and about 1.5 hours into the burn-in session I am left with a good-looking, seasoned, clean, and happy wood stove, but OH OH OH MY was it a ton of work.In short:- Applying this product is very very tricky if your stove is textured.- Thin it out a lot and apply sparingly with a stiff brush, then buff dry after a bit.- Fire up the stove and be prepared with lots of ventilation. LOTS.- DO NOT APPLY THIS STUFF RIGHT BEFORE BRINGING YOUR BOSS/INLAWS OVER FOR DINNER IN FRONT OF A WARM ROARING FIRE.