Colu step away from the grinder and do it by hand lol. The whole tang took about 2 hours of my day yesterday. I only trust myself so much with my 3/4" small wheel. I took the spine all the way to a worn 400 on the machine. Then by hand I went to 320, 400 wet, 600 wet, then 1200 wet, then 1500 wet and finally 2k wet by hand using a wood dowel rod as a backer in the tight finger area. Then I buffed with white compound on a loose muslin wheel. Then I noticed some scratches right behind the ricasso on the spine, on the front leading edge of the knife, and realized I didn't sand the spanish notch. Back down to 320 in those areas, and worked back up.
