Everybody needs a buffing wheel

One more reminder about the potential for disaster with a wheel though...I run mine at 1550 and it's very much more controlable than at a higher speed. Since it's the compound that cuts and it doesn't know how fast it's moving, just take your time. You can also bear into the wheel with a greater degree of safety at the lower speed...sort of gives you a chance to react if it starts to get into the danger zone. My belt driven setup also provides some safety as the belt will start to slip before you lose your grip. I've been using mine for about 15 years and haven't yet (knock on forged steel) launched anything. The most important thing is to remember to stay in the safety zone. Also rememeber that buffing against the wheel is for cutting, with the wheel is for polishing (color).
 
A while back I converted a cheap 1/3 hp bench grinder into a buffer by replacing the grindstones with cloth wheels. This thing isn't very powerful and can be stopped if a blade is pressed too hard, but it seems to work.

One think I did was turn it around on the bench so the wheels are turning away from me. If a blade catches for some reason, it is flung in a safe direction. This seems like a better setup. However, since real buffers are set up the other way there must be something wrong with it, and I'm just wondering what that is.
 
Nope...a turning wheel is a turning wheel. Setting it up for a safe launch zone is the smart thing to do. I simply prefer to have my potential launch zone *away* from my head/eyes figuring that a blade (or possibly just a piece of one) would be better going down. I learned how to do this a long time ago (like 30 years ago) and on a down-turning wheel, so am more comfortable with that. It seems to *me* to be easier to see the contact zone that way.

BTW, with *my* setup (an old washer moter and a twin wheel mandrel on a wooden 2x4 standing table), anything launched goes into open space or the wood base...if yours launches to open space, it sounds workable.
 
If you use one of these mounted buffs and clamp your khuk blade to a board, you won't have any of the forementioned problems or concerns. Your only concern will be that you'll end up liking it so much you'll run around the house trying to buff everything!
 
I might as well do that...since you visited at the Khon, I have sharpened everything in the house.

The cat didn't like it...maybe she'll like the buffing better?
 
shave 'er first....the buffing ought to bring out a nice luster...

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Is there a wax one would use for cat buffing? Or do you just wax to polish?
 
Pen, I think that there is more to the rust prevention of buffing than just the materials left on the blade from the compound. I have buffed O-1 blades, and I have hand sanded O-1 blades to the micron finishes ~ even after cleaning with acetone the buffed blades were less likely to rust. One of my books written either by Hrisoulas or Engnath said that the when you hand sand or use water stones the "pores" of the steel are left open; high speed buffing smears the surface of the metal and closes these "pores" (for lack of a tech term :( ). BTW, thanks for the inexpensive buffing tip.
Adios,

stevo
 
Hmm...maybe waxing itself is the best way to remove the hair from the pussy...

Then I'd bet you could polish it all you want! ;-)
 
yes, skeletor. For horn handles, you'd want the white compound. It works wonders on horn. If the handle's already shiny, then just use a plain wheel (no compound) or at most, wax (beeswax, carnauba, etc.) That will add a good luster to it.
 
Yes...somehow, people's forum names seem to bring on a life of their own....:D :eek: :D
 
Nasty said:
Hmm...maybe waxing itself is the best way to remove the hair from the pussy...

Then I'd bet you could polish it all you want! ;-)
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Naw, I'd better not.:p :o :eek: :D


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The house we are moving to sometime soon comes with a buffing machine, an engineering pillar drill and a milling machine (the owner is an engineer with LOADS of stuff that he wants to get rid of, so we volunteered to 'look after it' for him), I was thinking about getting some time in on the former but always feel slightly uneasy since burying a small chunk of plastic in a notice board when using one at school. I have a nagging suspiscion I would wind up turning my best Khuk into a suriken.
 
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