Buffing out 110 brass bolsters

[morestag]

What exactly would it take to buff or grind out some pretty good dents on the brass bolsters of a Buck 110?

 

[Bill DeShivs]

Without power equipment, you can:
File the dents out with a single cut file, and sand with wet/dry autobody paper in grits 320, 400, 600, 1000,
2000 grits. Flat sand with the paper backed with a file or a piece of wood lath. Final polish with Simichrome on a soft cloth.
Bill

 

[morestag]

How about with just a dremel? No bench grinder or buffing wheel here at the moment.

 

[Bill DeShivs]

No, don't use the Dremel at all. It will not work for that. There is not enough surface areas on the wheels to get a consistently smooth finish.
Use the method above, and the results will be fantastic.
Bill

 

[Greg]

Depending on how deep the dents are, you may have to remove a fair bit of material to get them all out.
I gave up on this on my knives because it would have left the bolsters much lower that the scales.
I just went for smoothing in the end and got great results with a bit of wood backing and some 600 and then 1200 grit wet/dry. A buff with a soft cloth, also on the wood backing and some polishing compound smoothed out the bottom and edges of the dents, and while not perfect, I didn't lose much brass or nickel-silver.
Greg

 

[morestag]

Thanks for the advice. I will try some wet/dry auto paper.