Thread: Removing pitting from blade

Originally Posted by JimmyHAD

I have friends who do restores and they talk about ten hours of hand sanding on one blade. I clean them up with something like Maas and shave with the pits as is.

Well, I'm making progress with the Elliot. I find I make better progress but using a square-ended bamboo chopstick, slightly rounded on two faces, and sticking the Fre-cut 618 paper (P240 to start with) to the end. This allows great pressure at the friction interface without letting the paper follow down into the pits. I then use SiC paper wet, 320, 400, 600, 800 before polishing up with an 8" buffing wheel and a gentle soap.

Here are some pictures of the Elliot so far and of the Co'khill wedge and the Thomas Turner 'Everlasting'.