Thank you gentlemen for the kind remarks. The polishing effort is underway, very tedious, slow and not much fun, but so far the results are worth it. I just got a 3 inch random orbital buffer with some foam pads and once the dope is flattened with 2000 grit, it only takes a few minutes with the buffer to get a great shine. I may have to go back and polish some of my other planes!
Don