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For a clean up I wouldn't use any paper. Just a very soft cloth or polishing wheel, maybe on a dremel with slow revolution and only slight contact to the etching, no force. Maybe a little polishing...

Tape protection is a good idea. But be careful, if you have a gold etching and rust in between, the tape may remove the gold from the blade when you loosen it. Rust moves between steel and the gold...