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I looked on Amazon and don't see any threaded mandrels with threads longer than 3/8 inch. Is there some workaround for that?

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The wheels are 1 inch in diameter and 3/8 in width. For the emery, I was also using a pointed felt tube that looks like the front end of a rocket ship:

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Thanks. That's a good tip. I'm...

Here's what it looks like now, after 3000 grit wet and dry, and Maas:

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I haven't yet gotten the hang of the Dremel sanding or buffing. The sanding drums leave waves of...

I've also been using WD 40 with wet/dry. I'm not sure exactly why it seems to work better. Moves more easily, faster, and it makes a sort of paste, almost like slurry. Seems better than scraping dry...

I found a table for grits and compounds that puts emery at about 600 grit.

You're right that in starting back with emery I dropped down some grit levels. But then, after the emery, I worked back...

I was just looking at a couple of tutorials giving advice on different things you can use for backing--wine corks, rubber tubes, erasers, leather strips, wood blocks. Lots to choose from! One...

For one blade, I followed the advice on a Brad Maggard tutorial: finishing sanding up to 1500 grit, then thirty minutes with metal polish (I used Maas). But he sticks in some buffer time (white...

I had a razor hand-sanded up to 1200. I'm new at this and am just trying things out for the first time. I tried polishing with Dico compounds, using a Dremel and felt buffer attachment. I used the...