A first time attempt: Polish my Fällkniven NL2 to mirror finish

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ChristianJ

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After some experimentation and some really hard work, a Fällkniven NL2 Odin with mirror polished blade emerges (stock photo as comparison). It is not 100% perfect, there are some minor imperfections that can be seen close-up and at certain angles with good light, but it is nearly there. The edge/grind of the blade that is from different steet is not mirror polished by purpose. Took about 8 hours of work including some extra time due to experimentation and mistakes (starting at too high grit). Started with sandpaper (grit): 120, 240, 400, 800, 1200 and 2000. Continued with a cloth with 5u, 3u, 1u and 0.5u polishing compounds.

I think I like the blade better this way (stock photo as comparison), what do you think?

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Yep - that is a lot of work invested. Looking very nice. And mirror polish seals off the surface from the elements as much as is possible.

I like it.

Eric
 
Very nice! Excellent job! :thumbup:

Now go outside, use it hard like it is supposed to be used, and scratch it up!
 
Looking good!

There's a lot of work behind that finish! :thumbup:


Regards
Mikael
 
jobu1911 said:
Very nice! What cloths did you use? Any particular brand paste?
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I used Luxor's polishing compounds: Red (5u or 6.5u, not sure), green (3u), blue (1u) and final finish with yellow (0.5u). Cotton cloth works fine with these. They work great with strops as well (obviously).

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Good lord that polish is beautiful, and you did that by hand?!? Nice work. 8 hours is no small amount of effort.
 
Lakeified said:
Good lord that polish is beautiful, and you did that by hand?!? Nice work. 8 hours is no small amount of effort.
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Thanks. Yeah, I did it by hand. Partly because I lack the tools, but even more because I wanted to do it by hand ... sort of more personal that way. I could have done a better job in 6 hours, but I made the mistake of not using 120 grit enough aggressively at the start so I had to sort of start over and wasted few hours because of that.
 
ChristianJ said:
Thanks. Yeah, I did it by hand. Partly because I lack the tools, but even more because I wanted to do it by hand ... sort of more personal that way. I could have done a better job in 6 hours, but I made the mistake of not using 120 grit enough aggressively at the start so I had to sort of start over and wasted few hours because of that.
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Either way it looks great. This is tempting to me for a knife or two I have.
 
Hej/Päivää/Good evening, Christian!

Please email me -- I have a few local Nordic polishing paste questions :-)
 
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Christian: the grits of the Luxor kit are as follows:

red......6.5u
green...3u
grey....1u
blue....1u
yellow..0.5u
white...0.3u
orange.0.1u
 
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