one thing ive noticed about blades that i spent hours polishing.....i become afraid to use them, i dont want to scratch all the hard work!!! i wouldnt be able to use that cryo if spent the time to do that
Took it to work yesterday and today. The hard part is over. I can always give it a quick once over with 1000 grit and polish it again.
one thing ive noticed about blades that i spent hours polishing.....i become afraid to use them, i dont want to scratch all the hard work!!! i wouldnt be able to use that cryo if spent the time to do that
Took it to work yesterday and today. The hard part is over. I can always give it a quick once over with 1000 grit and polish it again.
where do you get that fine of sand paper? auto parts store? i think the finest i found at home depot was liek 600
No worries. Bob Loveless stated this very explicitly, long ago. I figured you're used to it, and would have remembered pretty soon.
That little factoid is one of the things that made me like stonewashed finishes.
Edit: those of you who are looking at Max's Cryo and thinking you might like to try metal polishing are strongly urged to do some reading about the process beforehand, and talk to people who do it, if possible.
The "artillery" component of a buffing wheel is not the only devil in the details. You can also "wash-out" the bevels on your knife if you're not careful, and other things that will make you cuss a blue streak at beast, and get you hurt, at worst. It may be a harmless looking piece of cloth, but at a few hundred revolutions per minute, different rules apply.
Last Edit: Jul 10, 2013 17:18:31 GMT -8 by Shorttime
If you have a bench grinder you can throw some buffer wheels on it and use some green compound to shine it up real easy.
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If you have no experience with a stationary buffing wheel, use a round bar of metal to practice on, before you try to polish the knife.
A buffing wheel can catch a corner or edge, and throw a piece of metal with stunning force, usually right into your leg. Or worse places.
yeah i have a buddy at work who makes knives in his garage.......he had a knife flung and broke the blade. he was pretty pissed after already spending several hours on it
Post by willydigger. FB inFamous on Jul 10, 2013 18:54:37 GMT -8
That Cryo looks fantastic!
I've always used a dremel with a 2-inch cotton wheel and green compound. It's worked fine for me. No issues with heat treat that I know of, and the green compound leaves a great bright luster.
Regarding fine grit sandpaper, Auto Parts stores generally go to 1000, 1500, 2000, and on occasion 3000. If you look online for micro mesh, they go all the way to 12000.
The common Joe won't have access to a bench wheel. A dremel is small enough that even if the wheel pops, you're generally looking at a busted finger. It still hurts like hell. Wear safety glasses too.
The Cryo steel should be relatively soft enough to sand. Compared to 1095 on a BK2, my Spyderco Persistence was a piece of cake. Still, it's time consuming, hard work. Also, S30V is absolutely miserable to polish. Couldn't do it. I gave up on my Spyderco Cat.
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I've always used a dremel with a 2-inch cotton wheel and green compound. It's worked fine for me. No issues with heat treat that I know of, and the green compound leaves a great bright luster.
Regarding fine grit sandpaper, Auto Parts stores generally go to 1000, 1500, 2000, and on occasion 3000. If you look online for micro mesh, they go all the way to 12000.
The common Joe won't have access to a bench wheel. A dremel is small enough that even if the wheel pops, you're generally looking at a busted finger. It still hurts like hell. Wear safety glasses too.
The Cryo steel should be relatively soft enough to sand. Compared to 1095 on a BK2, my Spyderco Persistence was a piece of cake. Still, it's time consuming, hard work. Also, S30V is absolutely miserable to polish. Couldn't do it. I gave up on my Spyderco Cat.
It was easier than the Izula but it was no cake walk. I think I could do anything with my machine though. Knives aren't exactly the right size to machine sand though. I want to buy a knife specifically to try a polish on now. I can't think of one.
Also, if anyone would like me to do theirs I wouldn't mind. Of course I couldn't do everyone's.
I would volunteer a knife to be polished. Just for the hell of it.
What do you have?
I overlooked the fact that the knife would require metal scales to be polished, and I don't have a knife without scales :P what if I just sent you the hardware and blade of the knife to be polished?