Thread: Removing pitting

Oh, more slippery ,

I have also been placing the blade on about a 1.5in piece of wood, it helps alot, thanks for the tip. I also started to use a small piece of fairly soft wood to wrap the sandpaper around, my fingers felt like they were going to fall off after a while and that helped alot.

I will get the mineral oil and some gloves next time I'm there.

Thanks for the tips,
Neale

Originally Posted by padron

Oh, more slippery ,

I have also been placing the blade on about a 1.5in piece of wood, it helps alot, thanks for the tip. I also started to use a small piece of fairly soft wood to wrap the sandpaper around, my fingers felt like they were going to fall off after a while and that helped alot.

I will get the mineral oil and some gloves next time I'm there.

Thanks for the tips,
Neale

Use a pencil rubber to wrap the paper around ,it can be shaped to fit the blade
Kind regards Peter

Translated, thats an eraser. Looks nice.

Thanks for the tips and help guys!

It also helps if you brace the spine against 2 nails as you sand (versus trying to hold the blade still).

Also, if the 'pencil rubber' is too small, I use a piece of rubber tubing to wrap the sand paper around...for a concave blade it sits right along the concavidness (yes, that is a new word I just made up....)

C utz

Yeah, if the eraser is too small, you can also try using one of those crepe blocks (or whatever they're called). They pretty much are just giant pieces of soft rubber that you use to unload sandpaper. Can just cut out whatever size you need

Im too new at restoration....but I'm trying to do my best.....



Being honest I don't were the pitting is in the picture.....Can you please help me ?

Alot of it was removed after sanding, in the photo it still remains at the rear of the blade, theres some pitting just below the tang... I have still been working on this but need to buy some finer grades of paper.

Hopefully soon they'll all be gone, then some new scales will be in order

Neale

Originally Posted by padron

Alot of it was removed after sanding, in the photo it still remains at the rear of the blade, theres some pitting just below the tang... I have still been working on this but need to buy some finer grades of paper.

Hopefully soon they'll all be gone, then some new scales will be in order

Neale

I don`t know where you guys were when Bill made his CD but here is a razor vice ,makes things very easy, make out of any scrap wood, area that holds blade can also be covered with blue tac to soften area where blade sits if you are worried about pressure the drawing is rough but I`m sure you get the picture
Hope this helps
Kind regards Peter
PS good job

I just bought thay CD, I´m still waiting for it