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Wow Neil they really built their gear from the ground up. I'm sure as with Japanese sword polishing all the minerals in the stones etc get impregnated in to the steel giving the 'colour' & depth to...

Thanx Neil. Any other info on the "agate or bouldering stone"

3" of razor will finish a lot quicker than 28" of katana ~ believe me, I have done the latter :rofl2:





Thanx Al but the oxide is traditionally mixed with Choji oil for sword polishing. ...

Thanks for the link. That's interesting about the rouge. You can get superfine jewellers rouge powder for polishing glass etc. Japanese swords are polished lastly with a paste called 'Nugui' which...

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...