Thread: Rust removal options

From my knife experience, I have found that if you are going for the "hand rubbed" look, the alternate direction sanding kinda becomes superfluous once you get at and above 600 grit or so. At that point, you are just knocking the tops off of the very fine previous scratches. One other little trick is that you can used your buffer or dremel to do the spine to edge "sanding" and then do the lengthwise with paper with cork/sanding block, EDM stones or what have you if you want to end up with the lengthwise "had sanded" look. If you do that, another trick is to go a grit higher say to 1200-1500 or 2000 and then go back to the previous grit, say 1000-1200 or 1500 and pull STRAIGHT in one direction heel to toe using a fresh spot on the paper for every stroke using DRY paper. If you use EDM stones, ALWAYS follow up with paper, as buff, etc. . EDM stones kick butt, but they can leave a hazy finish,

Originally Posted by Euclid440

The higher you go in grit the better the polish. Take it up at least to 1k sanding with WD40 alternate sanding from spine to edge and heel to toe with a cork as a backer, polish with good metal polish.

Most automotive parts stores carry up to 2K.