How to clean metal dust from wooden handles?

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Some time ago I was sharpening a D2 blade with a wild olive handle on my Japanese water stones. At the moment I was finished I washed the blade and dried it of and... noticed that some of the metal dust had stained the wooden handle. Tried to wash it of, but didn't really go. So now I'm left with a grey-like wooden handle. Normally I wrap my wooden handles before I sharpen them, but this time I didn't unfortunately :(

Anyone some useful tips to remove metal dust from a wooden handle (and get a "clean" wild olive handle again)?
I can sand it down a little bit of course, but maybe there are some better suggestions.

Thanks
 
Great, that did the job!
Cleaned it with steel wool and then gave it a few strokes with some XF cushioned sandpaper, to get the polished look again, and oiled it up.

Thanks :thumbup:
 
Cool! Glad it worked for you. I got lazy once when sharpening a bunch of kitchen knives with wooden handles and had to clean them. When done however, they looked better than before! I used regular olive oil, as they were for cooking and I thought that chemical oils wouldn't be good for that.
 
grizzled gizzard said:
Olive oil will spoil. Mineral oil is food grade, and won't. Every drug store has it.
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yup discovered that some years ago as well. Had the blade oiled up with olive oil, but it dried in overtime. Could clean it though, but since then I'm always using mineral oil
 
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