Thread: New 1/2" sanding mandrel tutorial.

Nice one! I read both your tutorials and they rule!

I was at the Dremel stand at Walmarts, the other day and I was thinking to myself...

"Why don't they have those little sanding drums in the finer grits that you need for razor blade restoration???.... "

My next thought was...

"Geesh, those little sleeves are'nt cheap, I wonder how many you go through restoring one razor?"

Thanks for passing on a really brilliant, useful, piece of information...

I've been gathering together my arsenal of razor fixing tools, and your gizmo is a perfect and totally essential, necessary adaptation & application of using the Dremel tool for razor restoration.


Tony

Hey guys,

I tracked down "somethings" that might be useful. In my creating my "Newbie Version" of ToxIk's Vlad's "Sanding Kits"!

Check-out the mandrels that are part of this "Sandind Set"
68pc Sanding Set, 1/8" shank, Bulk
Our Price: $5.97 each
http://http://www.widgetsupply.com/p...-set/SBA3-68pc


I also found some other items on this site that would also make a good "Newbie" version of Vld's "Disc Sanding Mandrel".

7/8" Dark Red Polishing Wheel, 1/8" shank, bulk
Our Price: $1.49 each
http://http://www.widgetsupply.com/p...re-edge/D-DY20



3/4" Leather Buffing Wheel - 1/8" shank - Bulk
Our Price: $1.59 each
http://www.widgetsupply.com/page/WS/...leather/D-BY21


3/8 x 11/16" Leather Buffing Cylinder, 1/8" shank, Bulk
Our Price: $1.49 each
http://http://www.widgetsupply.com/p...leather/D-DR16

Hey ToX!

I love your post, I made a "quick and dirty" version of your sanding mandrel over the weekend, and it works perfect....

I love the way that you can get the buff marks to go in the same direction as the original grinding marks....

When I was doing it by hand no matter how careful I was to sand in the direction of the grinding marks it never looked "just right", and looked kind of "amateurishly" done...

Now, with your mandrel my blades look really "professional", minty, and schweeeeeet...

I was trying to clean up a couple of blades by hand last week and 15 hours later I had made some progresss, but my hands/fingers were raw and ached and it felt like it was gonna be another 15 hours before the blades would even BEGIN to look "professional" and "minty"...

With your Gizmo, my two blades were "good to go" within minutes!

Thanks!

Tony

Jeez Toxik those things look shop bought!! Excellent job.

I used your first method a couple of weeks ago and was totally stoked with the results.

The one thing that took the time when sanding the blade, was actually, making the little individual cylinders, but you have taken this on board and shown us a way to do it very quickly!!

I love this idea. Move over dremel, the toxikmeister is a comin through!!

pea

Cool, I'm glad so many people find them useful. If you can get the hang of making the tubes down, I do quite strongly recommend them against the first version little cylinders; I find the tubes much less prone to flaying or catching an edge.

After using them so much, here's a method I find results in a good polished satin finish: Start with whatever grit you need to clean up the blade; this is usually no coarser than 220 for me. Continue up to 400grit and stop there. Now move all the way up to 2000 or higher grit. This is to smooth out the very high peaks of the 400 grit almost like you're polishing it out a little. Now use a little polish (simichrome, MAAS, flitz, etc.) to give the razor it's nice final lustre. I usually do the final polishing step by hand as I only wany to shine it up and not buff out any of the grind lines. The following pics are the results of some razors by using this very method.
satin - CF Helly - cwb1 - cwb2

yeah satin finishes are so nice. Very classy i think!!

Thanks for the info toxic. Great post

Oh yeah!
Back from the depths for this great info

...I know it has been 5 years since last post .. but the link doesn't seem to work, any chances of reposting tutorial to a new link?

thanks

Originally Posted by miha

...I know it has been 5 years since last post .. but the link doesn't seem to work, any chances of reposting tutorial to a new link?

thanks

+1 yes please!

Originally Posted by MattCB

+1 yes please!

+1 more for repost!