Dremel Polishing Compound

Ok, so I checked at a smaller local hardware store in my area, no maas, and the only metal polish was in the form of wipes. I then drove up the road to Lowe's. Well, the store was just build about 2 weeks ago, and all the sales people are still quite clueless where anything is. It took one guy about 20 minutes to find me all the screws and bolts I needed for some medical equipment I manufacture with a friend, and a different sales guy 10 minutes to find the sandpaper. I had minor luck there, they had up to 600 grit, which was what I was missing. As far as various grits pastes, or proper metal polish, again same problem. Only polishes were wipes and a spray bottle like windex for it. I decided to play it safe and ask about them on Tuesday's resto chat before buying and applying.

I headed over to the Dremel section on my own, and found felt polishing wheels that could be worth a try. They also had a polishing compound, which was 3$ on sale with a coupon, so I figured I'd give that a try. However, I have no idea how fine of a grit it is yet. I'll go try and find out on their website, and if that doesn't work I'll give a small area on a tang a quick go of it to see how it turns out.

Any advice on where I can find decent metal polishes and various grits finer than 600 without ordering online? Should I try an auto store, walmart, grocery?

I've used the red stuff to add a bit of extra lustre to my satin finish. Haven't tried it on mirror-finished blades yet.

Auto supply stores are the best bet for sand paper up to about 2500 grit..
The Dremmel polishing compound you are referring to is the red I am guessing???? If so it is a basic Jewelers Rouge and does work "good"... Lowe's should have a section with their power tools, that has grinding and buffing wheels, they will have tubes of polishes hanging right there too!!!!

Another option is to e-bay some Simichrome, which also has a great reputation for our purposes.

Lee Valley has the .5 micron green stick that seems to work fairly well.
I'm having the opposite problem. Polishing is easy but finding an appropriate grit for grinding is hard. Hand sanding wet/dry is some seriously long hours on a good steel blade even to remove minor pitting.

I'd like to find a decent progresson of polishes for the dremel that cut steel from 400 to my green stick. Much of the polish doesn't seem to be tough enough for steel.

I just put in about 3 hours total on this blade

http://straightrazorpalace.com/showthread.php?t=16388

using a mix of Barkeeper's Friend and heavy mineral oil, with a couple of inches of wood dowel stuck into my dremel. All the rust and pitting is gone, now I'm working on polishing it up something pretty with that red dremel polishing compound, and some very fine sifted ash from my fire place. Yeah, I'm putting in the hours on the untried stuff first, because I really don't feel like driving out to the store.

3 hours. Oh my goodness.... I definitely have to change my process.
I'm getting excellent results but it is incredibly slow. 30-40 hours rather than 3-4.

- Bob

I keep the dremel about medium to high speed. Also, I find that I can push a bit more at times with the wood versus a felt polishing wheel. I haven't noticed myself completely destroying anything yet, but don't count on my advice as good and proven yet. I'm still quite new at this, and only on my first razor :eek:! Be cautious of the techniques this nubblet produces until verified by other, more experienced users.

ok, helpfull time.

homedepot/lowes/any hardware store for your 150,220,320,400,600 sandpapers
autoparts stores such as pepboys, autozone for your 600/800/1k/1.5k/2k


these are great for final polishing with maas/simichrome/flitz
http://www.widgetsupply.com/page/WS/...nted/SDE4-MC12

these are great for using with rouges:
http://www.widgetsupply.com/page/WS/...nted/SFH5-MZ78

here are some rouges
i use Tripoli coming off the 1500/2k sandpaper
http://www.widgetsupply.com/page/WS/...er-rouge/BBB94

then i go to either white rouge or since other people mentioned it green chrome.
green chromium rouge:
http://www.widgetsupply.com/page/WS/...er-rouge/BBC38
white rouge:
http://www.widgetsupply.com/page/WS/...er-rouge/BCZ23

finally finish of with only using the maas/simichrome/flitz.
personally i use Simichrome and buy it online at ebay:
http://search.ebay.com/search/search...ome&category0=

hope that helps:
~Jared


ps. its been posted before a large write up of using your dremel tool with the sandpaper to help with all your sanding. it speeds it up quite alot. learning process as you don't wanna sit in one area too long or it will make a dent. but its definitely worth a try. personally i took one of those sanding drums that comes with a dremel. took their sandpaper tube off. this gives you a rubber chunk at the end of the mandril. i put double sided tap on that. then i cut small pieces of sandpaper to fit the rubber perfectly. put that on there and go at it.

walmart has mass in furniture polish dp. 800 and 2000 grit wet/dry paper in automitive dep.