What tools or products do you use to get the mirror polish on your knife or axe blades? I'm close, but cant get rid of the light feather marks:grumpy:. Currently my finest stones are only the DMT red fine diamond stone that is a 600 grit, Gransfors Bruks Swedish double sided(coarse&fine) sandstone puck for my axes, some 600 grit paper and I picked up a sheet of 1500 grit paper from a Finland company. Of coarse I have the typical Arkansas coarse and fine grit stones that I rarely use and I dont know what grit they are, nor do I know the grit of the GB axe puck. What else should I get? Should I close the gap between 600 and 1500 and find something around 1000 grit? I was thinking of getting the DMT green extra fine diamond stone as that is 1200 grit. Do I need something finer than the 1500 paper to get that polish? A local knife shop has a 6,000 Japanese grit stone. Thats gotta be like running your blade along glass
. I'd rather not use any sophisticated aligners or contraptions of sort. Just simple dry products that I can take on the fly if I need without being bulky or messy. Can a polish be had without pastes, compounds or buffing tools? Any suggestions with your experience would be greatly appreciated.


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