Thread: Joseph Rodgers and Son -- Wedge

You picked a doozy to start with. My process is pretty much the same for most restores. WD-40 and 000 or 0000 steel wool to clean it up, I may or may not first take the top layer of gunk off with a razor blade, it depend what is above the surface and what is in the steel. Once the steel is cleaned and I can see what I am dealing with the likely next step is to get a clean bevel. I most often start that with a 1K, but that often takes far too long on such a job. At which point I will resort to a 600 grit. With nice clean bevel you can then kill the edge and remove the scales. Nice scales like those go into a bag with some neatsfoot oil. I then start on the blade with either 1K or 600 grit paper with a hard backer and use long strokes to get an even blade surface. And then progress up from there. Once the blade is clean and you have removed as many of the pits as you want you then begin to polish out the scratches. Once I start to remove the scratches I use WD-40 with my wet dry. That is the basics.