Originally Posted by
PierreR
As far as the restore goes. I started with the scales, they had a lot of raised grain that the oil treatment did little for, so I cleaned them with a diluted mix of acetone and soapy water, dried thoroughly then lightly sanded. I used 400 to 1000 grit papers, wrapped around a little block of G10 used as a sanding block. The block helped a lot on the chamfered edges of the scales, to avoid rounding the edges. Then I used a tight sewn cloth buffing wheel to "erase" the fine scratch lines from sanding. I started with a product called ZAM a green scratchless buffing compound, followed by a light buff on a loose cloth wheel using white diamond buffing compound.
For the blade, I cleaned it with acetone, and it was a straight buff. There was next to no pitting, just a little dark spotted patina, and dried gunk here and there. The notch had a tad of corrosion, that I removed with some 600 grit paper wrapped around a 3/16 brass rod. For the buff I started with green chromium---- oxide on a tight wheel, followed by Zam, and white diamond.
So as far as machine work, it was a simple bench grinder, with cloth wheels in place of the typical grinding wheels.