What's happening in the David Mary Custom shop?

Here’s why I have a love/hate relationship with suretouch. After hours of wet sanding it looks done but then look at it a day or two later once it’s dried off completely and this:
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And of course in the past I didn’t know to expect it and once I noticed it I am pretty sure I tried some less than effective ideas to fix it, often finding myself going back and forth between grits and even making it worse.

I didn’t tell you this but for a period I was considering never using suretouch again.

I know it’s only cosmetic and doesn’t affect function and the function of this material is just too good not to share with the world. So I stuck with it and believe I did the best I’ve done yet on the empire outfitters knives.

But now these with the added surface area are showing me spots I thought I had done more consistently. So Saturday I called a knife maker friend and ran it by him for advice. Josh made some suggestions that I’ll try.

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Gonna try his dry sanding idea now and see if it works for me as well.
 
I'll probably never be able to show it again if I don't smooth it out but I've started thinning my new to me prevails handle a little bit using a slow speed wire wheel and in its current state it looks very post apocalyptic but Its so grippy I can't pull it out of my hand with wet or dry gloves on. Can't help but think it may end up with course scales and become my #1 bad weather knife. At 1/4" it's not like it's fragile and if it won't slip at all (my only complaint with my LT wright is it slips a little when excessive moisture is around.) It's filling a void I didn't fully appreciate until now.
 
Oh right let’s not forget the bane of my existence lol

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That’s after significantly more hand sanding plus I have protected the knife with mineral oil now.
 
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