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Just grabbed a kershaw blur. My usual method of finishing is white compound on a strop. Is this steel going to be a pain to polish with this?
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Typical green or white compound on S30V?
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+1 to diamond (or CBN should work, but I haven't used it).
Diamond will make a much bigger difference at sub-5µ grit or so, when the size and hardness of the vanadium carbides in S30V will start to noticeably impede the performance of other compounds (black, white and especially green, which is almost useless for polishing S30V). Diamond and CBN are the only abrasives hard enough to abrade and shape/thin the carbides.
David
Diamond will make a much bigger difference at sub-5µ grit or so, when the size and hardness of the vanadium carbides in S30V will start to noticeably impede the performance of other compounds (black, white and especially green, which is almost useless for polishing S30V). Diamond and CBN are the only abrasives hard enough to abrade and shape/thin the carbides.
David