• The BladeForums.com 2024 Traditional Knife is ready to order! See this thread for details: https://www.bladeforums.com/threads/bladeforums-2024-traditional-knife.2003187/
    Price is $300 $250 ea (shipped within CONUS). If you live outside the US, I will contact you after your order for extra shipping charges.
    Order here: https://www.bladeforums.com/help/2024-traditional/ - Order as many as you like, we have plenty.

  • Today marks the 24th anniversary of 9/11. I pray that this nation does not forget the loss of lives from this horrible event. Yesterday conservative commentator Charlie Kirk was murdered, and I worry about what is to come. Please love one another and your family in these trying times - Spark

Tumbler polishing blades?

D

David LaFerney

Joined
Feb 4, 2015
Messages
122
Sorry. This was a dumb question. I'll use the search function first next time.


I'm sure someone has tried this before and I've just never heard of it, but how about polishing almost finished blades in a tumbler? Might take weeks, but it seems like after it was shined up you could square up the back, apply the scales, sharpen it and reduce a lot of tedious hand work. There must be a problem with this that I haven't thought of. I know you couldn't let multiple blades beat against each other so you would either have to do 1 at a time or rack them together somehow... Why doesn't this work?
 
Last edited:
People tumble finish blades all the time.....but that is to get a tumbled ( stonewashed) finish, not a polish. Unless the blades were very small, polish tumbling wouldn't work well anyway.

Trust me, if that was an easy way to polish blades everyone would have a tumbler.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top