Polishing Non-Stainless Blades

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Hello everyone, this is my first post. I'm sure being new I will ask a lot of stupid questions, but hopefully I'll get the hang of the forum in no time. I have been a knife enthusiast for as long as I can remember, however this is my first membership into a knife forum. I looking forward to learning as much as I can from all of you. My knowledge, even on some of the simple things like sharpening is lacking to say the least.

My question.

I have a number of Non Stainless steel blades that I polish from time to time with metal polish to keep the blades in good shape. It seems to work well to keep the blades from tarnishing and rusting over long periods. Does this hurt the resale value of the knife if you start with a statin finish but through the years turned it into a semi mirror finish from polishing.

Thank you

Bill
 
if you are using the knife and the person buying it from you will be using it then you shouldnt be really hurting the value. personally i would rather have a knife that was kept in great shape that some one polished up than a factory finished knife that is tarnished and rusted.

if it was a collector piece that you just kept cleaning up and ended up polishing then ya it may damage the value.

i think a lot of it will also come down to personal preference but just from pure physics a satin knife would be at a higher risk of corrosion especially if it is made from a non-stainless steel so meh, take my opinion with a grain of salt

-matt
 
SR_matt said:
if you are using the knife and the person buying it from you will be using it then you shouldnt be really hurting the value. personally i would rather have a knife that was kept in great shape that some one polished up than a factory finished knife that is tarnished and rusted.

if it was a collector piece that you just kept cleaning up and ended up polishing then ya it may damage the value.

i think a lot of it will also come down to personal preference but just from pure physics a satin knife would be at a higher risk of corrosion especially if it is made from a non-stainless steel so meh, take my opinion with a grain of salt

-matt
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He may ask for a grain of salt, but I basically agree with his analysis. Are we talking user or collectable? If it's the latter, all common-sense rules are off!
 
I was afraid you'd say that. I do use all of my knives but keep them in excellent shape. I new making them shiny through the years couldn't be good for resale value. I guess I know what sharpening them will do. Oh well I really don't think I would sell any of my better knives, but I still was always curious what I was doing to the resale value.

Thanks everyone for the help on my first post.
 
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