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Some have the thread that starts 2/3rd of the way up and some like me, have the threaded bolt that starts at the bottom of the bowl. After I started restoration on a knife, I went ahead and used...

Just a quick reply and from experience - I ran my Red Imp in the walnut non-treated for 96 hours (4 days) and saw no change. Added some liquid rubbing compound to the walnut media, and a slight...

I've been extending this tumbler experiment to knife restoration - got stuck doing a knife restore or two for my father (an avid knife collector).

I won't do multiple blades after I placed a...

Yeah, I used exactly that to "treat" my walnut media. BTW, I do see a big difference in pet store media versus tumbling media (based on your picture). My corn cob media is finely ground - smaller...

Experience so far has shown that 220 & 320 grit scratches will survive extended lengths of exposure to any combination of walnut media/compounds and corncob media/compounds. So far.

Boiled down,...

Uh, yes.... Hours and hours and hours. That crazy carbon steel used by Case is torture on fingers. Joe laughed because he evidently has messed with some 132 Red Imps before and knew how hard the...

Alright.

Yeah, I talked gssixgun into trying this, but hadn't really posted anything of note myself. But I showed some of my results in chat channel, and Glen (gssixgun) said he would hunt me...

I got a bottle of Turtle Wax Liquid Rubbing Compound and added a little over half of it to my untreated walnut media. Gave it a few hours of tumbling by itself, then used a spoon to stir through the...

I can't wait either.... After all, that licensing fee of mine might pay dividends in razors!!!

Of course, the wife might get just a wee bit upset if I buy another tool for myself...

Ahem!

What Glen has forgotten to mention is that there is a licensing fee for using this idea of mine.... A freshly restored, shave ready razor is that licensing fee - if the idea/experiment is...