Thread: The Black Polish

Thought this was cool. Copied it out of an old knife magazine. I'm guessing razors got this treatment too ?

" The Sheffielders called it the "Black Polish", a polish so gleaming, so bright that it appeared black at certain angles - and it was one of the finest polishes the world of cutlery has ever seen.
It came from slow moving wooden wheels with a lead surface and finishing compounds that included ashes mixed with beeswax. With the development of health standards in the workplace fewer factories would take time (or submit their workers to the risk) of producing the beautiful black polish."

The rest of the article mentions a Solingen cutlery factory that did the same polish up till 1956 when it closed. Bruckman was their name.

Would be something to see.