Thread: Polishing made easier and much safer

Well...here I go again with some new discoveries (for me).

I have been restoring razors now for about a year.


While polishing out the pits and tarnish I had the misfortune to destroy two blades when they were jerked out of my hand and thrown to the floor (never found anything but the spine…that is scary if you have little ones walking around the house. Thankfully they were junk blades I was using for polishing practice. I was always apprehensive about using the rag wheels and after this incident; I decided to move on to something better while I still have all my body parts attached.

I have sense started using the soft felt wheels in a smaller size on my variable speed grinder and have had great success with these wheels. Number one, they are much less likely to jerk a blade out of your hand and as you can see in the pic they can be loaded with liquid or paste compounds. They work great.

I also got some 1 inch felt wheels with a permanent arbor in them for use with my Dremmel. (Got them on ebay) If you try this you will never use rag wheels again.

Now...the problem is that these wheels don't have a big enough hole in them to put on a grinder.
Solution:
As seen in another pic, I put super glue on the wheel and make about a 1 inch circle working out from the center. (Both sides) After this, drilling is quite easy and the wheel can be trued up on the grinder by using a belt sander.


Some of you have probably already done this but I think it is worth mentioning.

Happy and safe polishing!

Stingray