comments and advice on my grinding/finishing process.

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I'm still learning and exploring knifemaking and am trying to finalize my process (for now) and wanted to get the advice and comments from you all.
Here is a blade I worked on last night and it's ready for sharpening and a handle. I've made about 8 blades this way now.

I bevel grind with a VSM 60 grit. Walk the FFG up with a 120, 3M ceramic
then I finished off with a Norton 180, put the plunge lines etc.

Then I go straight to hand sanding with 3m wet/dry 180, lines running down the blade.
Finish sand with 320 and then red scotchbrite, hand pulled.

What do you think? Is this sell able in the market?
The pics aren't the best as it was getting late and wasn't much light.

I like the hand sanding process because it doesn't take very long and is much less risky that working on the grinder (at my current level)
my goal here is to produce the best blade I can with some efficiency.

thanks for looking

here is one I did the same way a few weeks ago, better pic

 

[Frank Niro]

Sure looks great to me ! Yes, it is saleable. Get a good finished handle on there and it's ready to go. Some of us can be real slow at learning and getting to a good finished knife. Some people do good work very soon after starting. I recommend you do not tell customers how many you have made but keep your prices reasonable so you can recover enough money to make more.
Frank

 

[Bob Ohlemann]

I think that as good as this looks (and it does look good), you could really ramp it up by going to 500 or 600 grit and then pulling on a green scotch-brite. It would reduce some of the color variations within the lines and give a cleaner look. Not that much work since you've already done the hard part. Nice job!

Bob

 

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I think that as good as this looks (and it does look good), you could really ramp it up by going to 500 or 600 grit and then pulling on a green scotch-brite. It would reduce some of the color variations within the lines and give a cleaner look. Not that much work since you've already done the hard part. Nice job!

Bob

color variations, good point, thank you
I will try that

 

[DukeHarley]

That looks good from what I can see. Let's see the finished product. Now get busy!!!! Lol.......just kidding.

Jay

 

[Maelstrom78]

This might be a dumb question but are the green scotch brite pads the same as the green ones in the grocery store? I've been finishing with rhynowet redline but I'd like to try the pads.

 

[Bob Ohlemann]

This might be a dumb question but are the green scotch brite pads the same as the green ones in the grocery store? I've been finishing with rhynowet redline but I'd like to try the pads.

I believe they are the same. I've used green pads from Enco and from the grocery store and see no difference. I believe they are extra fine.

Bob

 

[Maelstrom78]

OK thanks

 

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Here's what I use.

 

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2 more for this batch
And a close call with the disc sander overhanging paper edge