Thread: My First Restore - Wostenholm

I give you and the rest of the guys that sand their blades to a perfect mirror finish. It takes a lot of patients which I seem to be short of. In my Tool and Die Maker days I would try to avoid work that required polishing like the plague. I have mellowed some with age but not enough to spend a lot of time polishing. I feel lucky to be able to hone my blades to a perfect edge w/o going crazy.

You're doing excellent work polishing the blade. You may already know, if you want all of the scratches out you need to be sure all scratches in the blade match the grit being used before moving to the next finest grit on your process or you will be wasting your time. Also be sure there is not contamination on the blade or anything else touching the blade from the coarser grits. One stray particle will cause scratches deeper than the current grit and you will going backwards.

Good luck!