Thread: What's you final polishing product

I have used Maas for years as the final polish, but lately have been using Novus no.3 and 2, as a final hand polish, it does seem to make steel pop a bit more. Maas is the most expensive and difficult to find, but if a pre polish with Mother’s or Blue Magic is used, you only need 2 small dabs and a tube will last a long time.

I use a progression of Mothers, Maas then Novus 3 then 2. Novus is a plastic polish so the grit is very fine. Works great on plastic, Ivory and horn scales, also just a small dab is needed.

I have also used Maas to strop on, it can polish an edge and often use it between stones and to remove stria prior to going to a finish stone, on hard, chippy razors, but it can leave a rough edge. I suspect most metal polishes have aggressive cutting grits, probably Aluminum Oxides of unknown size, they are all secretive about their formulations.

For final edge polishing, there are better pastes available, like Chrome, Cerium Oxides and CBN that are almost as aggressive, without being chippy.

A lot of knife guys strop on metal polish, where a toothy edge can be a benefit.

Seems mass is the most common used. I have heard blue magic is very light in the abrasive department and is good for polishing and in 1 video of Glens he uses a turtle wax product that is green (crox?). From what I can gather Autosol is 3 mic Alumina. Unfortunately many things common in the US are hard or impossible to find here. There are so many options from metal polish, bar compounds, turtle wax etc it is quite confusing what is the finest or what a progression order would be.

While I have Maas I tend to go to my can of Simichrome polish more often. I think it works better for me.

My too, Siimichrome is my go-to final polish.

From research so far siimichrome is 8-10 micron and flitz and blue magic are finer and in the same ballpark as each other. Mother's seems to be the finest at about .5 micron. Seems like a move from Autosol to mothers might be a good progression. Now to find some Mothers.

I have the Maas (I had some sent over as I dont thinks its easy to get if at all in UK) and I like it works well, I also have autosol left over from my biking days and thats good.

I use Autosol and Brasso wadding. I believe Autosol is actually made in Solingen, so I suspect it's been used for razor polishing by some of the makers at some point. Also, it's cheap and a little goes a long way.

Found some Mothers today and gave the blade I'm currently finishing a go as it had already been taken all the way through to the autosol and the mothers seems to give a slightly better finish. It's not lots but is noticeable so it's gone from reflecting well to really well. There is a bar compound I'm interested in as well so will report back if that is even better. Thanks for the advice

Blue Magic for me. Works very nicely with a Dremel buffing wheel.

Update. Do got the bar compound and as yesterday did a side by side comparison. Tape 1 half of tang to keep at yesterday's results and polish the other half with the new product. This is definitely a step up from the mothers so I did the whole lot. Is called Dialux and is rated at .3 micron. Was $7.25 well spent as this bar is going to take a long time to use. Now a pic sorry for the poor quality is on my phone.