Satin finish

Tjstampa

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A friend asked .e to sharpen his kitchen knives. You can tell where he used a pull through sharpener. Tool wise i only have a dremel. What could i use to remove the scratches while leaving a satin finish. These are German made woustoff (sp) knives
 
Do you mean there are scratches well above the edge bevel? You could use a progression of wet and dry sandpaper but you would have to more or less do the whole knife if you want to make it uniform.

If your friend didn't ask you to remove scratches, I wouldn't touch them, just put a nice edge on it.
 
He works at a Japanese Steak House and i wanted to surprise him. This is one of his sets. BTW he helped me run lo voltage wireing on his day off which is much harder than sharpening all of his knives.
 
He works at a Japanese Steak House and i wanted to surprise him. This is one of his sets. BTW he helped me run lo voltage wireing on his day off which is much harder than sharpening all of his knives.
That's cool of you to do that.

It depends on where the scratches are. There really isn't much problem with just getting to it with wet and dry if they won't be removed by just sharpening. I would just blunt the edge for safety before you start. It will probably be a fair bit of sanding if the scratches are quite deep, but just start relatively coarse and progress through the grits. For a satin finish you can probably finish with a 400 or 600 grit but you'll see where you want to stop. I would sand along the length.

The only issue is that you will probably remove the branding if you do the whole knife that way, or you could try to do a transition but it will be noticeable because of the original grind.

On the other hand, I'm sure he would just appreciate a nice edge without going to too much trouble. He presumably wasn't worried about scratches when he tried to sharpen them and they are working knives not high end pieces.
 
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