Tumbler polishing blades?

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David LaFerney

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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?
 
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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.
 
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