Is my compound any good?

[chococrazy]

Hey, I was wondering if my green polishing compound is any good.
It's number 5 green compound from either Home depot or probably lowes.
The maker is task force I got the finest one they had and I also got a number 4 (it's white).
It's for buffing wheels, but I use it with my strop.
Is the compound any good I can't find how many microns it is anywhere.

 

[Jason B.]

The green is around 3 microns where as good green compound AKA chromium oxide is usually 0.5 microns. It will work but there is better.

 

[Jeff Clark]

It will work better on steels without a lot of hard carbides. It will work better on a simple carbon steel than a tool steel. It would work better on 420HC from Buck or AUS8 than on 440-series or 154CM stainless. If you have a fancy stainess steel with high abrasion resistance I would do a complete sharpening job using hard hones and only strop briefly and lightly at the end.

 

[David Martin]

I have the finer green CO knifenut mentions and it will refine and polish 440C,ATS34,154cpm and others.It works decent.DM

 

[Infi-del]

Not to highjack the thread but do any of you guys know the micron rating of Flitz?