Mirror polishing S110V

Motega

Motega

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Been doing a lot of research, and it almost seems like you are better off being patient and starting with decent diamond pastes on leather instead of going a more traditional paper wheel or sandpaper route.
Not talking about the edge, no problem there, I'd like to polish up the flats to a decent shine.

I have decent diamond pastes in a variety of grits and was thinking just do a little at a time. As in a half hour or hour while just kicking back and watching TV or something. Exercise in futility or just the long way around?

Specifically a PM2 - just to get out scratches and pretty up a user, I don't "flip" knives for profit or anything but appreciate having my gear well cared for.

I don't want to get into a Dremel because they tend to overheat if you're not careful, and I don't want to spend hours at a single clip, so tell me if this is a viable option.

Thanks!
 
Motega said:
Been doing a lot of research, and it almost seems like you are better off being patient and starting with decent diamond pastes on leather instead of going a more traditional paper wheel or sandpaper route.
Not talking about the edge, no problem there, I'd like to polish up the flats to a decent shine.

I have decent diamond pastes in a variety of grits and was thinking just do a little at a time. As in a half hour or hour while just kicking back and watching TV or something. Exercise in futility or just the long way around?

Specifically a PM2 - just to get out scratches and pretty up a user, I don't "flip" knives for profit or anything but appreciate having my gear well cared for.

I don't want to get into a Dremel because they tend to overheat if you're not careful, and I don't want to spend hours at a single clip, so tell me if this is a viable option.

Thanks!
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Nah, thats a waste of time.

You need to "Cut" down to the deepest scratches and smooth it all out with less deep scratches to the desired level of scratches. You tracking?

All ya gunna do is make those deep ugly scratches shiny with paste.

Clamp the blade down and sand away until you either run out of sand paper or get bored and do something else :D

The secret is start coarser and clean it up as you go.

Not the most enjoyable experience, but ya gotta want it if you want it done right.
 
Mirror polishing.
One of them do or die missions.
Pass Go! and enter the Holy Oracle of #5000 Sandpaper (HO5000S).
Do not return until you've reached the #7000 level.
 
That's the only reason I was thinking about it. I have a ton of wet dry up to 10k.


Problem is that the blades I have seen taken only to 8k look, to my eyes at least, ugly.
If I can't get a mirror I don't want to settle for
amateur looking scratches.

Related- so I have this tiny bonsai orange tree I have had for 30 years- since college- and at its base was a hematite sphere. 30 yeats of scratches from the sandy soil, other minerals I chucked in there and I was able to turn the sphere back into a mirror in 5 minutes with diamond paste.
S110V ain't hematite, but it was definitely satisfying.
 
IME, not worth it. I was 'restoring' a 60s era Solingen carbon blade so not sure what the hardness was.
I imagine S110v is harder?
Any scratches more than superficial are going to be a ton of work to get out.
 
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