Here's a few pics of my first sanding then polishing job. It had some marks on it, but was a fairly decent blade to start with, I think. I got it up to 2000 grit, then started with polishing. All by hand, I don't have any power tools yet. There are still some very fine 2K grit lines that didn't show up in the pic, but all in all, I'm happy with how it turned out. Now I need to send it out to get honed. I'm wondering if I should have taken the pin out for the sanding. I'm also considering a tumbler purchase. I'm just not sure how into this I want to get right now, especially being so freakin' new.....


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Please, let me know what you honestly think. The bad and the good.