Thread: wet dry sandpaper for a restore

may be a stupid question, but when handsanding a blade using wet dry sandpaper im gonna use and start at 80 grit and try to go as high as i can with what i can find in local stores, my question is does it have to be wet dry sandpaper and are you using water or wd40 when sanding and do i need to use water or i can sand dry??

Wow, 80 grit! That's very coarse. I start with 400, or 240 if the pitting looks bad, and if that isn't removing the pitting quickly enough, I will try 120, but it then takes forever going back up the grades. I've pretty much given up on blades with pitting bad enough to need 120 grit.

I've always used the paper dry, I hadn't thought of using wd40.

80 is way too coarse.
220 is very coarse for the job at hand but could be appropriate for a heavily rusted wedge.
I much prefer sanding with wet paper.
A firm rubber eraser makes for a cheap and easy form to wrap the paper around.

Will 220 remove pitting ? Handsanding? If I spend enough time on the 220?

One word, yes...but then you have to remove the deep gouges that the 220 left. For hollows I use a section of radiator hose (any thicker rubber hose will work) with a section of wooden broom handle for my hollows.

I typically only go to 400 and then work up. Less is really more when it comes to straight razors and "grit".

Ok I just started sanding a crown and sword with 220 gonna work it all the way up to I think 600 grit in my variety pack I think that may b the highest grade wet dry I have found locally if I can find higher I'll go higher than I'll polish.. See what happens. So far so good actually just found 1000 wet dry at auto zone so I'll take it to that ..

ok so far hand sanded up until 600 grit,than Maas than polished with dremel gonna get some 1500 grit and polish again I'm so happy with results so far .. Pfries is gonna send me original scales for this razor then will b complete..

May I borrow this thread a moment? You're asking pretty much the same question as I want to.

I've just picked this up off eBay with the intention of trying my hand at some light restoration:



I have two questions:

1. What grit sandpaper do you reckon I want to start at? On one of the how-to threads, a really coarse grit was mentioned but here the consensus seems to be that you don't want to start too low.

2. This might be a funny question but will it be absolutely necessary to take the scales off? I wasn't really planning to and I don't want to crack them by accident, either...but it would be a shame to do a half-arsed job by sanding around them, too.

Before u start sanding, try maas. My razor was alot worse i started at 220..

Check out Amazon. I picked up a package of various grit papers from 1000 to 2500. I cleaned up one wit some minor rust on the spine. If youre having a hard time finding it, try Amazon.