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

Originally Posted by D2T

Will report back in 24 hours.

So it's been 23.5 hours give or take. Just got home and took out the blade for inspection. Looks really good! A nice polish, but some of the scratches from my 300 grit sanding are still evident. I think they'd eventually polish out in another day or two, but I'm going to throw in the walnut media and see how that works now.

Lessons learned:

- I loaded my media with Flitz. It's about the consistency of toothpaste, and after emptying the corncob I saw that two of the globs I dropped in (out of 5) had just stuck to the bottom of the tumbler. So for the walnut, which I also Flitz'd, I mixed the polish by hand into a bowl of some of the media so it wouldn't stick to the tumbler. This is only an issue with thicker polishes.

- Buy a spare tumbler bin. Swapping this media out is annoying. Luckily I had a glasss kimchi jar that barely fit all the corncob.

- I think I saw more improvement in my blade in 24 hours than you did Philadelph. My hand sanding marks were significantly diminished. Not sure if this was because of: corncob, polish, different tumbler, or softer steel. Hopefully we'll figure this out.

I'll see if I can get some pics up of my before and after.

edit: here's a few quick and dirty pics. Unfortunately I didn't remember to take a pic after I had roughed it up with some 280 grit..


when I bought it:



after 24 hours in corncob and Flitz:




And just for fun, my dog's reaction to the tumbler: