Thread: Did some blade polishing tonight, what do you think? Any tips for a better finish?

Hard to say from your pics, but I think more time with the 1000 and 2000, then polish with stainless compound, then white or green rouge. You'll need to practice a lot to get a perfect mirror finish. I've done dozens of blades now and I'm still not where I want to be with regards to my mirror finish.

Looks pretty obvious in the pics that there are still scratch lines going both vertically and horizontally along the blade, so you didn't spend enough time getting at least a couple rounds of scratches out. If all of the scratches were uniform and from the 2k grit paper, you would know it- i.e. almost mirror.

I spent another ~5 hours with the dremel and the jewelers rouge and MAAS working on my blade, finally got my mirror finish



Now I just have to do the other side

You could have started at 150 or 180, then 230, then 320, then 400 and then 600 and up.
Otherwise it takes forever indeed.
This way you can remove all the damage before going up in grit.
Going up in grit is something you only do if all damage is gone, because it is pointless otherwise.
Low grits are for removing damage, high grits for erasing scratch lines of each lower grit.