Thread: Scratches Galore: Advice needed

Thanks for the advice given so far.
Kenrup, if you talk about a "hard felt wide wheel", do you mean a stationary polishing wheel, or an attachment for the dremel?

The felt wheel is the 1/4" or so, cylinder Dremel attachment.

I'm also interested in that "magnetic jig" your talking about. Could you elaborate on that a bit more?

I use an articulated hobby vice as the base then I modified a magnet bar and mounted it in the vice. It works great.


I agree that it looks like someone tried to dremelsand it already. Looks a lot like the results you get from sanding with those small rotary sandpaper cylinders that attach to a dremel. I believe they are approx. 300 grit. Do you guys think I should hand sand to a higher grit, before polishing?

I would try and level out the sanded area to try with the felt wheel. Simichrome is a bearing polish so it's a touch courser then MAAS. Then I would use chro ox.

Well I did it.

I first sanded those scratches out by hand. I started out at 220 grit, after half an hour of hard work, decided to drop down to 150 grit, and another half hour later, took a deep breath and dropped down again, to 60 grit. Even there it took me over 10 minutes to remove those grind marks, made by one of the previous owners. Then I gradually moved back up, all the way to 6OO grit.
Earlier that day, I had visited the tool store, to renew my supply of sandpaper, and my eye fell on a set of polishing wheels for attaching to a drill. There was a sisal wheel with some brown stick of "pre-polishing" paste and a felt wheel with a white stick of "normal polishing" paste. It cost no more than 11 euro, and I decided to give it a try. Back hone I polished an old Pearson&Co and was very pleased with the results. After sanding the Bartmann, I took it to the wheels. I have polished with a dremel before, but I found the stationary wheels (I placed the drill in a vise) much more convenient to polish razors.
After the wheels I polished a bit further with "OOO" steel wool and Peek polishing compound. I am pleased with the results.
The etching has become a bit paler, I think about retouching the original gold and red colors, but I'll have to figure out what's the best way to do so. I'd welcome all suggestions.

I thank all gentlemen that have given advice in this thread.
Tomorrow, when I have daylight again, I'll shoot a picture and post the results.

thanks,
Bart.