Thread: Buffing Compounds Revisited

Originally Posted by randydance062449

The hard, dry buffing compounds are easy to put on a felt wheel if you first break off a chunk, smash it into small pieces and then put the pieces into an electric coffee bean/spice grinder and pwder it. Then combine it with Maas or some similar goo. Then it will stick to the felt wheel.

Thanks for the tip!

I have been taking a razor blade into the outside of the felt wheel making several cuts into the felt while the dremel is on (slow speed). This gets some crevices going into which the melted buffing compound can stick. Then I (turn the dremel down low for all this work) buff into the compound in a side to side motion. After I turn the dremel off and manually turn the wheel into the compound again (this adds another coat to the wheel). I let it dry for about 30 seconds or so and it's really to go. You can also smear some of the melted compound (it melts after the dremel wheel hits it for a little bit) onto the blade like you would Maas.

I like your idea best, but I don't have a grinder to grind into a fine powder. Maybe just use emery powder (do they sell various grits of that stuff?) and Maas? There's also that stuff Bill Ellis uses to start up a new bevel on a blade. He puts it on his 4000 grit stone. It looks like he uses it to get a lower grit out of a 4k (like having a 1k on the cheap). I forget the name of it.