Thread: I bought a dremel tool and seriously messed up a blade

JCsixx, I can help here alot, because I have been down this road recently.
I NEVER sand the blade with the dremel. It can only cause problems. If you have deep rust pits and you use the Dremel, you just end up with deep sanded pits. Just hand sand with a lower grit.
I only use the Dremel for:
Using the wire brush attachment to clean out jimps.
Use the felt polishing wheels after hand sanding to 2000 grit, applying a bit of Mothers Wheel polish to the blade.
Shaping scales to a rough outline shape with the drum sander.
Drilling the pin holes.

I just hand sanded a Dubl Duck that really looked far gone after my initial 1000 grit sanding. (thought it was only patina, boy I was wrong.) But Man! it came out great. Sorry I don't have pics yet.
I started at 220. Wrap the sandpaper around an old cork. Move in various directions. Circles, back and forth, up and down. THe I went to 320, 400, 600, 800, 1000, 1500, 2000. I swear this thing looks almost new.

I broke 2 blades and ruined another trying to go quick with the dremel. It isn't worth it. I can hand sand a badly pitted blade to new in about 5 hours. Crank up the music, and have fun.

Hope this helps.