Well, finished polishing the blade tonight. Tried to take some pictures to post but the camera flash is causing a lot of distortion so not really getting a good image.
Learnt a lot from polishing this one, good finish but nowhere near perfect. I polished one side all by hand and the other side I used some 80, 150 & 300 grit cutting compound on the buffing machine and ended up cocking up this side. I've ended up over polishing the spine so have compromised the edge of the spine which will dictate the angle the Horne will follow to produce the blade edge. Maybe I was over zealous with the 80 grit. Some tips would be appreciated, after following the SRP WIKI video guide (thanks arrowhead) I was eager to use the grit compounds. I polished the blade from spine to edge, is this wrong as it did lead me to round of the spine edge. Would like to crack the buffer polishing as it takes about a tenth of the time of hand polishing. Did finish off by hand with fine grade wet and dry (400 800 1000 & 1200) before moving onto the polishing compounds to get a mirror finish.
Is the grit buffering just practice or is my technique wrong, opinions and advice gratefully received.
Very slight pitting left on the blade very minor really, have some left on the tang as I would have ended up removing the names details on both sides (the blade was in a shocking state before I started and was an eBay £1 job so nothing to lose just using this fro practice).
What’s the secret on how to polish up the jib and serrated edges, as again it’s very easy to start to polish these out if machine buffering.
Kevin S
Learnt a lot from polishing this one, good finish but nowhere near perfect. I polished one side all by hand and the other side I used some 80, 150 & 300 grit cutting compound on the buffing machine and ended up cocking up this side. I've ended up over polishing the spine so have compromised the edge of the spine which will dictate the angle the Horne will follow to produce the blade edge. Maybe I was over zealous with the 80 grit. Some tips would be appreciated, after following the SRP WIKI video guide (thanks arrowhead) I was eager to use the grit compounds. I polished the blade from spine to edge, is this wrong as it did lead me to round of the spine edge. Would like to crack the buffer polishing as it takes about a tenth of the time of hand polishing. Did finish off by hand with fine grade wet and dry (400 800 1000 & 1200) before moving onto the polishing compounds to get a mirror finish.
Is the grit buffering just practice or is my technique wrong, opinions and advice gratefully received.
Very slight pitting left on the blade very minor really, have some left on the tang as I would have ended up removing the names details on both sides (the blade was in a shocking state before I started and was an eBay £1 job so nothing to lose just using this fro practice).
What’s the secret on how to polish up the jib and serrated edges, as again it’s very easy to start to polish these out if machine buffering.
Kevin S