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

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!

Seems to work well and looks great

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

This stuff is great! I was thinking about repainting but opted for this instead. Super easy to use. Has no chemical smell, only smells like wax. So fresh and clean looking wifey thought I bought a new one at first.Like others said, a little goes a long way. Much longer than you’d expect.Also, wear gloves. It’s does make a mess of your hands if you do touch it.Would recommend. Only 4 stars because I needed gloves. If I didn’t need gloves, it would be the perfect product!

This worked amazing and did not have the horrid fumes the paint has. Highly recommend. Took a rusted old stove and made it look 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 product was just the ticket for a facelift for my wood stove that had accumulated some stains, rusty spots and other discoloration over the past decade. I followed the simple directions and my stove is now pretty enough for the showroom. Some of the surfaces of my stove are textured and getting the paste deep into the texturing took some extra elbow grease, but it all went on well - super easy on smooth surfaces. Having a fairly damp cloth for application definitely helped to get good coverage on the textured areas. I found it a bit easier to apply more than needed, then once I had full coverage, wipe away the excess (kind of like grouting tile). The directions instruct you to provide ample ventilation the first time heating the stove after applying the paste due to fumes/smoke from the waxes in the paste. I've read in other reviews about an abundance of smoke. I didn't have that issue at all. I had an open skylight, exterior door, and a window open. There was some noticeable fumes, a little smoke, but much less than I was expecting. I don't know how you could possibly recoat a cast iron surface without some. Once my stove got to full operating temperature the fumes were all but gone and within about 20 min from lighting my stove I was able to close the door and windows and enjoy the stove as usual - all good! I'm happy with this product and I would reorder it the next time I recoat my stove.

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.