finishing touches: buffing & polishing
Hello all,
I've been working on my first couple of razor restores and I need some advice.
I followed the "hand sanding a blade" article from the wiki and now I'm at the point where I need to buff or polish the razor. I tried to hand buff using Mother's billet metal polish and the razors are shiny but at the right angle the scratches are very apparent. I need to know if I can get a true mirror shine by hand and without some sort of mechanical/electric polishing wheel?
I have looked around the site and it seems that I need to continue to use sand paper up to around 12,000 grit. At that point I would need to buff the blade. At that point I would use a variety of different compounds until there was a true mirror. Could this be done by hand?
I would appreciate if anyone could give me some advice or direct me to a thread where this has been discussed as I cannot find one.
thanks,
Stultsy