A Question For You Sal About The Kris Bolsters

Light sanding with 600 grit autobody paper should take out minor surface abrasions. Sand with the existing grain of the finish.

Regardless of your efforts it will never be a NIB finish, although you may come very close...Good Luck...Ed
 
Ed Schempp said:
Light sanding with 600 grit autobody paper should take out minor surface abrasions. Sand with the existing grain of the finish.

Regardless of your efforts it will never be a NIB finish, although you may come very close...Good Luck...Ed
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Ed! What an honor to receive a posting from the man himself. Your designs are some of my favorite and this knife was the completion of my Spyderco Ed Schempp trilogy. I think I'm going to take Blade's advice and look into having the bolsters engraved. It's a beautiful knife and deserves the special embelishment.

-Dan
 
Blades said:
I'll have to post a pic of my Pegasus. It is my "church" knife.
:)


Blades
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I'd love to see a pic or two Blades. BTW, I tried to contact Brooks at the website you provided but his email address is no longer valid. There was a link to his other website which had a hotmail address and I emailed him there but never received a reply. His website hadn't been updated for quite a while, so I doubt that he's still engraving.

I googled a few other engravers, but their prices were prohibitively expensive.

I also emailed Spyderco customer service and their reply wasn't too encouraging so it looks like I'm stuck with scratched bolsters. :(
Oh well, it's still a beautiful knife in my eyes.

-Dan
 
If there was some way to know which sandpaper grid comes close to Spyderco's brush finish, it could cut the guess work. Sanding would probably remove slight surface blemishes to better to improve the marred cosmetics. The trick would be having to sand in a single precise one-direction-only motion. Which is why masking off of some unrelated areas is required. But normally the bare steel surface has to be viewed in a single pane; meaning there is no such thing of micro touch ups or spot repairs on a single pane if you want the entire surface having a consistant grid finish.
 
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