Thread: sanding w/o polishing - what kind of finish?

When moving from grit to grit, you need to make sure you've sanded out all the scratches from the previous grit, before moving on. What I've found helpful is to clean the blade with flitz or maas between grits. If you can't get metal polish then use something to clean the blade well. This will allow you to see the scratch marks better. Maybe you're sharper than I am, but my first blade I ploughed through the grits, thinking I had mopped up all the scratch marks from the previous grit, but I hadn't. It wasn't until I got to the end, polished the blade, that I could see I needed to start over.

I know you said polishing compounds are hard to come by in your area but I'd think there must be something available that would be similar to flitz or maas. If you could find some, then you could use it after the 2500 grit and polish the blade a little more.

Good luck and have fun with it. Remember to take before and after pictures.