Mirror Spine, how do you do it?

VoxHog · Dec 16, 2008

I have a Busse knife that needs a Mirror Spine applied. The knife is currently black crinkle coated with micarta scales. :thumbup: Has anyone done this, and if so, how did you do it?

I currently have a belt sander & sand paper.

welton · Dec 16, 2008

I'm in the process of doing my NmFBM tip to choil by hand, and it sucks, I would reccomend using a dremel? or something of the like. I think the dremel would be the easiest way to do it until the last few grits, then I would finish it by hand. I'm having trouble sanding deep enough on the handle part, there are lots of deep grooves around there.

VoxHog · Dec 16, 2008

I have a Dremel too. :thumbup:

dobywon · Dec 16, 2008

I am also interested in knowing how to do this!!!

Bigfattyt · Dec 16, 2008

just be sure with the dremmel that you don't let any heat build up. Those suckers spin fast. Probably not as big of a problem when polishing.

J. Rosa · Dec 16, 2008

I guess you could use the dremel. If you want to take the scales off you could and it would allow you to hit the spine above them easier. Once you start getting under the coating and possibly any decarb though I would stop and just work my way up the grits using sandpaper. I think you could also tape off the blade from the spine down (and the handle) and use paint stripper and then just use sandpaper but that would take longer..... All you're doing when you move up the grits is replacing one set of more coarse scratches with another set of more fine scratches and leaving the surface less porous. You can take it as high as you want but I would go down a grit or two after a certain point for a satin finish and go higher in grit then polish after for a mirror finish (but I'm no expert). I'm sure somoene with more experience will chime in though.

Rat Finkenstein · Dec 16, 2008

dremels have variable speed control, at least the one I used did. you can slow it down to a crawl.

yoda4561 · Dec 17, 2008

I prefer to do it by hand until the final buff. Knock the coating off with some 60 grit. Start with the coarsest silicon carbide paper you can find and get it nice and even, then progress to 120/320/400. Then you can use the dremel or a buffer with green chrome oxide compound on a wheel to put a mirror on it.

STEELWHORE · Dec 17, 2008

I have done two,a skeleton with a dremel on slow and a becker by hand.both enjoyable,both easy.

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