getting sharpening marks out of blade finish

Wildcat

Wildcat

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I have a few old blades that have some marks from previous owners laying the blade grind flat on the sharpening stone. i've tried using a fine scothbrite belt but that seems to just polish the finish and not blend out the scratches.

would a medium or coarse grit belt work?

any ideas?
 
This depends on how deep the scratches are. You need to go coarse enough to remove them, and the easiest way to determine that is direct experimentation. A few hard-learned bits of advice:
  • Be sure you want to do the work that will be required before you start
  • Go coarse enough to get all the marks; it's a terrible disappointment later to find you missed some
  • "Cross out" the scratches by changing orientation by 45 or 90 degrees at each step to make sure you got everything
  • Use hard (e.g. wood) sanding blocks if you want to preserve grind lines; soft ones will blend them out
 
Does the idea of polishing these marks WITHOUT clamping the knive to something sound too stupid? I want to remove scratches too, but I don't have a workbench.
 
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