White B Compond

Lycosa

Lycosa

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Hi All! Will white buffing compound on a cloth, buff off scratches on a satin blade? Thanks.
 
Buffing compounds are used on wheels and the compounds generate heat and melts. Thats how it gets applied to the wheel. Dont think it will work as you have asked. Use semichrome polish. It does a good job but to get a scratch out is a big job depending on how deep. To get a scratch out, you have to remove all the metal around the scratch to the same depth as the scratch. Hope this helps.
 
Thanks, Dan.
The scratches are from Kydex. They're not too deep. Does Flitz work, also? Green scrubbies might work??
 
search You Tube , there was a piece on there for refinishing a satin finished blade .
simply put you put some sand paper on a flat block of wood and draw the blade from plunge to tip across the block .
 
Careful doing any "polishing" on a satin blade or you will end up simply with polished scratches. Pretty much any scratch that doesnt buff out in the first 5 -10 seconds wasn't sanded enough beforehand. Like someone else said...it depends if you want to just round off the scratch edge to make it blend or if you actually want to remove it. Removal means taking the whole blade surface down.

I'd look into just doing some quick touch up with sandpaper or a scotchbrite pad. Go in one direction butt to tip.
 
Leu Custom said:
Good god....send it over to me, i'll scratch it up more for you to the point where you won't see any scratches ;)
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..lol....haha, thats what i was thinking.

anyway, i doubt the compound will work, and 'd just use some polishing paste, and a rag, but if it's satin finished blade, like someone else stated you may just end up polishing the scratches and have a blade with shiney scratchey spots

maybe a coarser past would work
 
I've found that if shaping the kydex on the belt, you can actually get some grit down in the sheath. After learning the hard way, I stuff it with wet paper towels, and that seems to help, but I'm always a little nervous that something got down in there.
 
Thanks guys!
The blade had One noticeable scratch on it when it came back to me from the Kydex sheath maker. Stuff happens. I will work it out or just live with it.
Hey, Po---Your sheaths have not scratched...yet! :)
 
Lycosa said:
Thanks guys!
The blade had One noticeable scratch on it when it came back to me from the Kydex sheath maker. Stuff happens. I will work it out or just live with it.
Hey, Po---Your sheaths have not scratched...yet! :)
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Good to hear. (unlike the first kydex sheath I made you with the first red Kozzie !) Scratch central !
 
Iagree with the if you cant buff it out in 15 seconds resand to a higher grit then buff
 
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