Blade cleaning and etching.

Hi, I'd like to ask the following please.

Using metal cleaning/polishing cream or a power buffer

makes the etching of the blade I work on to wear off.

I find it inevitable, am I right or wrong?

Thanks a lot.

Yes. Polish is just a very fine abrasive...it removes metal. Eventually it will remove the etching and round corners. Using a buffer makes it happen much much quicker!

There are non-abrasive metal polish porducts available. Mass and Blue Magic come to mind off of the top of my head.

How can something polish if it is not abrasive? Doesn't that put it in the category of a solvent or wax? Isn't the definition of polishing to make existing scratches smaller?

I think technically you're correct. but they are marketed as a metal polish and do a pretty good job to boot. It's a chemical action that needs some kind of heat/friction such as rubbing with a cloth. It can make an incredible difference. I use Blue Magic on my safety razor restores (except for gold plate, if you look at gold plate wrong it peels itself off :( ) I think thta it pulls the impurities out of the metal but I don't really know.

Worst case is you use the non-abrasive stuff and you only clean it up a bit. Bonus part is the Blue Magic is pretty damn cheap to boot.