Thread: Blade No Longer Flat After Polish

Before the "You heated it up and warped the blade" discussion starts, which is a possibility, you guys have to understand that a dremmel is designed to polish small areas not a large flat surface like a blade face... You are creating hundreds of small dimples basically across the blade surface no matter how well you think your working that fast spinning wheel you are only cleaning little 1/4 in spots at a time....
I am also seeing more and more flap wheel damage to the edges on blades that are coming to me for honing....
I can't say it enough that using dremmels to clean up blades is a risky proposition at best, and broken or destroyed blades at worst...
When you're using one on a heavy wedge or 1/4 wedge the prospects look better, but to use a dremmel on a full hollow for cleaning is not a real good idea IMHO... Basically to clean up full hollows, it takes time, work, and patience, there really is no quick safe way...
Note that I said for cleaning not for final polish that is a different animal....

All of the above is just my opinion and I'm sure they are differing ones out there....