Thread: Removing pitting

Hi,

I have been hand sanding this blade for many hours, right now I am only at 220 grit Wet/dry..

If I move up in grit to 320 will the finer grit remove the micropitting that remains? or should I just keep workin it / try to remove all pitting before using a finer grade paper?


Does anyone know about how old this blade is? it's a pretty nice wedge maybe 7/8th

Thanks for the help.
Neale

It looks pretty good right now but if you want to remove all the pitting you have to keep at it. You need to remove alot of metal to get pitting out so I wouldn't move up in grit since it will just take that much longer to remove it.

Sorry, don't know anything about the blade.

Will Do, Thanks!

Yeah, it's usually takes some extra effort to remove that last bit of annoying pitting. Keep at it with 320 if you want to. I mean, the lower the grit, the quicker it should come out.

The blade looks pretty damn nice as it is though. I think I'd be satisfied with it if it was just left there. If you are going for a mirror finish, then I'd probably remove as many of the flaws as possible. A high polish finish makes any flaws more noticeable.

Sweet, Thanks Jason!

I am going to keep at it with the 220, maybe I should have worked the 100 a little longer but I was concerned about removing too much metal from the areas that showed no pitting..

Now there is just a few problem areas that remain, so hopefully only another hour or two before I can start going to a finer grit. The pits are very small, but as you stated would be very visible when highly polished.

Thanks, I'll keep going....

Neale

Neale,

I admire your will to keep at it!

I would have tapped out long ago.
Something that I found helped was to add a little mineral oil when hand sanding. It goes a little faster with the slurry that is made.

Also, were gloves, that metal sludge really stains the hands/fingers....you don't want to make your intake of heavy metals through absorption too high

Keep us posted! I agree with the others, the blade looks great!

C utz