Bk24

Extra fine sand paper would be my suggestion. But I've never wanted the original grinds gone, so...

With all the modding around here, you'll get a lot more help than me.
 
Gonna be really tough to so by hand with D2 steel. I did a partial polish on one of my 14s and stopped because the blade was becoming too thin for the custom leather sheath to still fit properly. If you are only going to do the spine, I say go for it. Any loss of steel there shouldn't effect the fit of the sheath very much. You'll probably want to try a Work Sharp or similar electric tool to do the work for you. D2 is pretty wear resistant and will take a very determined effort to refinish by hand.

Good luck and please post an updated pic when you are done.
 
A couple of passes down the contact wheel of a belt grinder with a 220 belt. You might be able to find someone here that would do it for you.
 
tradewater said:
A couple of passes down the contact wheel of a belt grinder with a 220 belt. You might be able to find someone here that would do it for you.
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Yep.
But you CAN do that by hand if you must. I would ABSOLUTELY NOT try to take the marks out of the flats, but on the spine you can use a hard sanding block with a COARSE abrasive, followed by something smoother.
Chuck it into your vise with soft jaws (leather, copper, whatever) with the point away from you.
Work it at lengthwise with 120 grit or so until all the marks are gone. Then do a cross-hatch pattern with 180 or 220-280 until the 120 marks are gone, then brush lengthwise until the cross-hatching is gone.

But hardened D2 is a cast-iron (D2, actually) beotch to abrade - that's the point.
Good luck. :-)

-Daizee
 
rkmoore said:
Gonna be really tough to so by hand with D2 steel. I did a partial polish on one of my 14s and stopped because the blade was becoming too thin for the custom leather sheath to still fit properly.
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daizee said:
But hardened D2 is a cast-iron (D2, actually) beotch to abrade
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Yup. It's going to take quite a while to do by hand since it's D2. I'd even venture a guess that it being particularly difficult is the reason the machining marks were not polished out in the factory. But then again, if they were, the BK24 might not be the bargain that it is due to higher machining/labor costs.
 
If you're going to do it by hand, pick up some cheap diamond hones from Harbor Fright. Chuck it up like Daizee said and use the hone like you were draw filing. I'm assuming you're talking about the marks on the spine.
 
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