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"Micropitting" in Polishing
I just quit polishing up a nice Joesph Rodger and Sons 6/8 razor.
The original finish was a the factory grind that someone had scratched up somehow. There was never any black rusting or pitting to start off with.
I ground off all of the ?honing? scratches using 120 - 400 - 600 - chromium oxide - maas method that I've been pimping recently. I'm starting to have second thoughts about it.
http://straightrazorpalace.com/showthread.php?t=18054
By the time I finished the blade had taken a nice shine in most angles in the light, but at a shallow angle you could see little (for lack of a better term) "micropits". No reasonable amount of dremel work would get rid of them.
- Has anyone else seen these before?
- Is it a result of my skipping a bunch of steps (i.e. sanding with grits past 600)?
- Did the coarser 120 grit do something that you can only see after all the other scratches has been polished out?
- Is it just my razor (probably not)?
The picture I posted shows the 'micro pits' as a halo around the white reflections but they are everywhere (and a few other small scratches I will work on later). Do these look familiar to anyone?
Thanks,
Mark