Anyone know how to mirror polish a factory blade with a dremmel????

Mykl Clark

Mykl Clark

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The only real power tool I have is a dremmel (and a drill) and I would like to put a mirror poligh on my Gerber Gator. --Mykl

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It would be hard to do this with a dremal tool in my opinion.You would be better with the drill You can get small buffing wheels and arbor to go on the drill,I think Sears has it.You will need to hold the drill in a vice or something then you are ready.Sears also has the buffing compounds.Why dont you just hand rub the finish to 600 or 2000 grit all you need is a flat piece of wood a piece of leather and the different grits of wet dry sandpaper and you are good to goYou can use some cutting oil or something lite like that on the final rubdown........Hope this helps,Bruce
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Yeah doing it by hand might work and it would be less likely to screw up my temper. However I'm a little new at this aspect of knives andany futher instruction would be great. Thanks much.
 
I believe that the Gator is either bead blasted, shot peened or etched. To do this you need to start out and hand sand the blade starting with about 400 grit sandpaper, then 600, 800 and 1200. Until you get rid of the gray colour on the blade, don't bother buffing. There are small buffing kits for dremels that you can use. I use a dremel in tight areas for finishing. Be very careful, some of the dremel "buffing" wheels are very hard. Make sure that you use the proper buffing compounds. This is an awful lot of work for what you wish to accomplish.

C Wilkins
 
Just hand sand to 2000-4000 grit and hand buff with green crome rouge or Brownells 555 you'l get superior results . with a Dremel tool your likely to get uneven or lumpy results .
 
I couldn't agree more with the above posts.

I would definetely recommend that you check out the Engnath site. There are a great deal of tips there on how to sand your blade effectively. Like clamping the blade down, making a sanding block, and how to work through the ascending grits.

I don't think I'd use the dremel or the drill, unless you did put the drill in a vise.

And another thing, I'd make sure you dull the edge a little before you start sanding, or you'll pretty likely end up with some new slices in your fingers you didn't really want.

Best of luck...
Nick

 
Thank everyboby very much I'll give this handsanding a try. It should be fun. Anyway thanks for the great tips. --Mykl
 
For sanding blocks, I've been using those small, pink erasers. Seems to work pretty well.

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