Thread: New Idea??? Experimentation....

I pulled the razor and decided that 36 hours of cleaning with the walnut shells was enough... Here are the results which I would call a success!!!!
The blade is clean and very smooth... The edge still is sharp, keep in mind that I am by no means saying that it is close to shaving sharp but for those that were concerned that the media would round or fold the edge that just hasn't happened...





I am loading the corn cob media with metal polish just like I described in the above post there is 4 lbs of corn cob so my recommendation is one tablespoon of polish to each pound.... This will have to spin until tomorrow morning so that it loads nice and even... If you were to throw the razor in at this time the polish would stick to the blade and create a blackish ugly clump on the blade and possible stain the metal so we wait 24 hours while it "Loads".....

Very nice results so far. I can't wait till have a proper workshop with all these fun toys.

Glen, looks great! Does it do anything to pitting or just clean it out? i.e. would it cut out any hand sanding because you just need to take out a certain pit or whatever? Or would this be best for just blades in very good shape (or very bad shape to bring them to a decent shape)? If hand sanding will be needed for a certain blade regardless, what would the point of doing this first be? (Just questions that I would have)

looks to me if nothing else it will save some time and it does the work while your working on other projects

Originally Posted by Philadelph

Glen, looks great! Does it do anything to pitting or just clean it out? i.e. would it cut out any hand sanding because you just need to take out a certain pit or whatever? Or would this be best for just blades in very good shape (or very bad shape to bring them to a decent shape)? If hand sanding will be needed for a certain blade regardless, what would the point of doing this first be? (Just questions that I would have)

Alex:
I don't think that it can take out pits,,, I do think that it can eliminate sanding between 400-2000 grit.... If this works, and as more people try it, we will no doubt learn different ways to use it... Different medias different polishes etc:etc:
This is just the beginning on this, but I have high hopes

Ooooh, now it makes sense. Hand sand to get out any pitting you are gonna get out and then use the tumbler to bring it to the same finish as 2k grit hand sanding. That would be great. Is the finish (before the polishing media) equivalent to 2k hand sanding finish would you say? Or is it more satin?

Originally Posted by Philadelph

Ooooh, now it makes sense. Hand sand to get out any pitting you are gonna get out and then use the tumbler to bring it to the same finish as 2k grit hand sanding. That would be great. Is the finish (before the polishing media) equivalent to 2k hand sanding finish would you say? Or is it more satin?

Hmmmmm lets see how to answer that, the finish felt as smooth, but was not quite as shiny...close very close, the one thing that is different, is that there is no direction in the finish. Like you get with sandpaper and even with a dremmel... When you look at those finishes very closely there will be very slight scratches, after all we are just making the scratches smaller, and smaller, and lining them all up, as we sand and or polish with a dremmel. This is going to be a smoother non-directional finish when it is done...IF IT WORKS LIKE I HOPE...
Remember this is still on going

I can't wait to see the results of the corn cob polishing, it seems like it will wok very well. Great idea and thanks for trying this and posting your results.

Chief

This is such an intriguing idea I went down to Guns Unlimited and bought one along with the mediums. And I have an older straight that the scales aren't all that great on so I'm trying it in there with the scales on just to see what happens to them.
Thanks for the great idea.
Ted

Yes I opened it up into a reverse V.

Originally Posted by stogieiv

This is such an intriguing idea I went down to Guns Unlimited and bought one along with the mediums. And I have an older straight that the scales aren't all that great on so I'm trying it in there with the scales on just to see what happens to them.
Thanks for the great idea.
Ted

Yes I opened it up into a reverse V.

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Ted
Thanks for posting and please keep the updates coming into this thread so we all can gain knowledge...
You are taking care of the next idea that I was going to try.... Good Luck