I need some help correcting a mistake on my blade

Sproles

Sproles

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I had experiemented with polishing blades before and did so fairly well. I bought this new polish a few weeks ago and got bored one evening and decided to take the polish to my Sebenza. Well the polish and cotton towels did fairly well, so I decided to step it up a notch or 2 and took the Sebbie to the Old Dremel tool this past weekend. Boy did I get it shiney, but I also left some "track" marks on the blade from where the Dremel would travel over the blade.

I hope that the description makes sense. I like the shine, but it always looks like I have some left over residue or something on the blade. It is shiney, but not clear...maek sense?

What would you suggest doing to get rid of the tracks and get this beauty to a nice smooth shine? Keep on with the Dremel, just go over the blade slower? Hand polish until it is all smooth? Send it back to Reeves?

Please advise...I KNOW that someone else has done something stupid like this before and can tell me a solution.

Thank you!

DPS
 
I think that my Dremel goes to 6...if that is the highet, then I had it at about 4-5. Sometimes I would catch my hand slipping and increasing the speed to high. Do you think if it was on high it would have prevented the problem? Thanks for the help.

DPS
 
I think you are going to have to either handrubb all those marks out, or send the knife back to Reeve for refinishing.
 
*thump... head falls to the table*
IMO you shouldn't have touched the sebbie with your dremel, my friend......
 
One good thing about polishing is that you can always go back a step or two and continue on through again.
I would put the Dremel away. Go back to the hand working and rub until it looks good again.
If you must use the Dremel, use a lower speed and take your time. Maybe practice on something other than your Sebbie.

You can fix it. Good luck.

Alex
 
You were using one of the little felt buffing wheels right? I've done that, sounds like you have streaks left that show where the wheel has been.
I would try running the dremel on its lowest setting, and running it very carefully perpendicular to the direction you were running it before (ie. bolster to point instead of spine to edge)
Its very hard to get an even polish using the little wheels on a dremel, you have to move it around to much to cover the whole blade. Anywhere that your passes overlap gets polished twice as much, you end up with streaks.
Go very slowly and try to improve things as much as possible with the dremel, then go back to hand polishing to finish it off.
 
Originally posted by Sproles
Do you think if it was on high it would have prevented the problem? Thanks for the help.

DPS
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I was thinking it left the marks because it was running to fast.

If you are going to try and fix it yourself I would try and get something with a bigger wheel and run it slow.

Even befor I did that I think I would see what I could do by hand.

Let us know how it turns out.
 
Put that Dremel up. Get a nice soft cotton rag and hand polish the blade. I would advise getting some "Mothers Mag and Aluminum Polish" and using this. You are going to have to do this more than once also. It might take several polishings a night for several days to even things back out, but stay with it and eventually you will! Get the Mothers at Wal-Mart in the auto section.
 
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