Thread: Blade Experiment

I had sent this Robert Klaas blade out to be honed but rust and pitting it made it impossible for the honemiester to get a good bevel without micro chipping. So it made an excellent test bed. I decided to see if I could frost the finish. So I set the sandblaster up at work and it worked like a charm. This did not remove pitting but it sure made it obvious. So now I'm going to sand out the pitting and see if I can reprofile the blade and make it shave once again.
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After:

Update:
I sanded from 80 to 320 grit. I managed to get all the pits out. I then bread knifed the frown out of the blade. My goal here is to frost just the grind and have the rest a mirror finish. So we shall see how this goes. Oh yeah! Here are the pics of the blade at 320 grit

I like the idea. You will have to make another with a mirror grind and everything else frosted.

Lol maybe so. Now you have me wondering which way would look better????

IMO I would frost the tang and make the blade a mirror finish.

Update: well here is the blade before final buff. I am really leaning towards frosting just the grind and leaving the shank and spine mirror finish. What do you guys think?

* UPDATE*
The blade was finish sanded and buffed. I took a good look at it and decided not to frost any part of it. So I made up a set of scales with a horn spacer and finished them in a CA finish. Only problem is I won't use horn again as a spacer as its variable coloring makes the wedge look like its cracked in places. But it's not! So I left it rather than un pin the whole damn thing. Well anyhow here are the pics