I just received my new web special Vantage, and upon casual inspection I noticed a dull spot aprox. the size of fingerprint in the area wher your thumb would be when opening the knife. It looks like an abrasion that has worn some of the shine off of the finish. My question to you guys is what product couid I use to make it match the rest of the scale w/o geeking things up? I love the knife by the way. I dont want to send it back its too new to me. Its like meeting a new girl right before she has to leave town for a while.
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cherry dymondwood scale problem.
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I think I know the reason the scale had the abrasion. When I polished the spot, hiding inside the abrasion area was a small pimple like bump about the size of a pin point. Since this was a web special I can only speculate that this might be a return to Buck resale, because at one time the cherrywood Vantage was gone from the page and then returned. So basicly it seems that someone tried to sand the bump down. I guess that my follow up question is how much sanding can one do on this type of scale and still polish back to it's original apperrance? Yes I can be kind of anal about small things like this
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I am going to guess, based on my own experience with Dymondwood (I've made scales for Spyderco Mules from Dymondwood). I don't know whether this product is different or is finished differently so you're on your own with any work you do. 
Here's what I think. If these really are Dymondwood, and if Buck hasn't applied a finish layer on top, Dymondwood is basically a laminated "wood product" impregnated with acrylic. Thus, the finish is basically not on the surface but is throughout the material. So, if you carefully sand and then follow up with higher and higher grit papers (400, 600 or higher; you could go all the way up to 2k or 3k if you really wanted to) you will be able to restore the glossy finish. However...
However, remember that anything that removes material from the scales will change their contour. You could wind up with a dished-out area on the scales, or wind up with wood/metal fit problems.
Here's what I think. If these really are Dymondwood, and if Buck hasn't applied a finish layer on top, Dymondwood is basically a laminated "wood product" impregnated with acrylic. Thus, the finish is basically not on the surface but is throughout the material. So, if you carefully sand and then follow up with higher and higher grit papers (400, 600 or higher; you could go all the way up to 2k or 3k if you really wanted to) you will be able to restore the glossy finish. However...However, remember that anything that removes material from the scales will change their contour. You could wind up with a dished-out area on the scales, or wind up with wood/metal fit problems.
If I were to try to sand such a small bump down on Dymondwood, I'd use about 400 grit backed by something hard -- any soft backing will spread the area that gets sanded and slow down actually sanding down the problem bump. Once you get rid of the bump, you can use softer backing with higher grits to smooth and blend on your way to repolishing it. As said above though - being laminated in layers means you need to be careful not to take off much material, since you can drastically change the appearance by getting into the underlying layer.