i love mother's mag polish.....

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when polishing a blade, sandpaper is often used....starting off with a coarse grade to smooth down the metal, then working up to the finer grits to achieve the final polish.....


one bad thing about using sandpaper is that a lot of metal has to be removed from the stock and once the polish is complete, the blade is markedly thinner than what you started off with.....


i wanted a satin finish for my CGASH, but the closest thing offered was DC.....

so, i ordered the DC version with the plan to polish it with mother's mag polish after i got it from busse.....


the great thing about using a polishing paste, is that you remove hardly any metal to achieve your final polish.....and the great thing about the DC finish is how even and smooth it is, so sandpaper is not required at all to start out......


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i didn't want to dull the edge, so the polishing compound was kept away from the edge.....the finish on my ASH is kind of the "anti-ban" finish....let me explain.....

ban's blades are satin towards the spine and progressively get to a mirror polish as it gets closer the the edge bevel.....

since i didn't want to dull the edge on my ASH, i stayed away from the edge bevel and polished more towards the spine.....so it goes from a nice satin polish at the spine to a stock DC finish at the edge....


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Mother's Mag polish is one of my favorites for steel. It cuts way faster than flitz or the other "tube" polishes and leaves a bright finish with no scratching :) Glad to see I'm not the only one who uses the stuff.
 
You gotta love the satin finish. Very nice job.

Did you get in round the ricasso (in close to the scales) or leave it DC?
 
That looks very very nice :thumbup: Did you buff by hand or use some sort of buffing attachment?
 
giant1 said:
You gotta love the satin finish. Very nice job.

Did you get in round the ricasso (in close to the scales) or leave it DC?
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i stayed away from the ricasso area, i just left it DC.....
 
Gerberblades said:
Looking SWEET!! Have you tried the Billet metal polish?
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billet polish??? never tried it, but if it works like mother's then perhaps i should.....


by the way, the pics i've posted does not do the finish any justice, looks so much better in person....


i'll try to post one more pic that captures the shine.....
 
Its made by mothers. I was checking out their products and saw some different metal polishers. Try taking the pics outside, especially when its overcast, and use a neutral background.


new said:
billet polish??? never tried it, but if it works like mother's then perhaps i should.....


by the way, the pics i've posted does not do the finish any justice, looks so much better in person....


i'll try to post one more pic that captures the shine.....
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I've always thought of doing that, although I don't have any knife to try it on yet.
 
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