Thread: Will the Scratches Ever Come Out?

+1 to holli here as well. This seems to be working pretty well for me on the three blades I am trying to polish and the razors that I am setting up for rotation as well. I just have a problem with finding a stopping point. I mean, for a daily user that you are not taking to a mirror finish, when do you let it go? I tend to grab a blade in relatively good shape, clean and disinfect it, and think "maybe I will hit it with some 1000 to take a bit of the dust off..." and forty minutes later my hands are black and I am working 220 on a scaleless blade. What do you guys do to just CLEAN UP a daily user?

Being in the city, there aren't any Autozones nearby. I've tried to go perpendicular from grit to grit, but Dylan's idea is better thought out and might work better. Part of this could just be some undiagnosed OCD...

Paul,

I worked on a blade for two weeks and finally gave up on hand sanding. When I got to final polish, it just showed scratches here and there that drove me crazy! I know it must be possible but I finally pulled out the buffer and tumbler and got there that way.


Barry

When I was doing only hand work, I used synthetic steel wool instead of sandpaper. I found that using the synth steel wool with MAAS seemed to leave far less scratches than when using just the synth steel wool. For example, with MAAS, the grey 000 Norton synth steel wool will not leave scratches (that I can see), but without MAAS it will.