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02-12-2021, 01:24 AM #1Senior Member
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Jimp file. What else?
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02-12-2021, 11:56 PM #2I'm a social vegan. I avoid meet.
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Absolutely! As others wrote, a wire brush or radial wheel on a Dremel works wonders; but cleaning the jimps (especially those on the underside/thumb-notch) was only half the battle: the rest was getting them sharp. I didn't want rounded, dull jimps rubbing my thumbs like a tired bar-girl at 3AM -- no, I wanted them to grip! Hence, the file (triangular, lest you had some doubt).
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02-13-2021, 03:27 AM #3
They have some very fine files watchmakers use. Needle files and escapement files they are called. They will do the trick with ease.
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02-13-2021, 12:37 PM #4
One of these usually fits the jimp.
I then polish with the buffer or dremel
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