WS Woodlore
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OK now i have decided to keep mine and use it until either it or myself wears out (place your bets 
) a question for all you knifey experts.
How do you get the blade that shiney?
I keep my cutting egde polished to a mirror finish but the rest of the blade is the same as when it was bought. I have cleaned the blade using the polishing compound that British Red advised me on but what do i need to do to get the rest of the blade to the same condition?
Cheers in advance
) a question for all you knifey experts.How do you get the blade that shiney?
I keep my cutting egde polished to a mirror finish but the rest of the blade is the same as when it was bought. I have cleaned the blade using the polishing compound that British Red advised me on but what do i need to do to get the rest of the blade to the same condition?
Cheers in advance
Sound advice as always thank you.
It is used and will get even heavier use in the future. It will stay as nature and Raymond intended!
It is used and will get even heavier use in the future. It will stay as nature and Raymond intended!
The inital batch of Wilkinson Sword Woodlores were all mirror finished blades.
However as time went on the finish was left to a fairly coarse grit finish, I'm not sure but I think they carried on mirror finishing the maple handled ones longer than they did the micarta handled ones, your example is a later one I think
The only way to get a mirror finish on the whole blade would be to work progressively through the grits of wet and dry, and then buff on a buffer with polishing compound .
The problem with that being that you'd probably lose the etched emblems on either side of the blade.
regards
beach bum
However as time went on the finish was left to a fairly coarse grit finish, I'm not sure but I think they carried on mirror finishing the maple handled ones longer than they did the micarta handled ones, your example is a later one I think
The only way to get a mirror finish on the whole blade would be to work progressively through the grits of wet and dry, and then buff on a buffer with polishing compound .
The problem with that being that you'd probably lose the etched emblems on either side of the blade.
regards
beach bum
Good stuff. I polished up my old knife when I was selling it and got a lovely finish on it then, unless your selling it and want it to look more appealing there's not much point in it to be honest. Also giving it a strop with some autosol paste will give it a nice polish.
When I worked in engineering we used a non grease( now called greaseless) polishing rouge on a cloth buffing wheel. The grit we used was somewhere between the 3000 (fine) and the 8000 (polish)ScottC said:
Autosol is as good a polishing agent as any.
Nice one thanks for the help,
Yes mine was one of the last batches, I don't really want to be working that much on the blade so it will stay "au natural"
Yes mine was one of the last batches, I don't really want to be working that much on the blade so it will stay "au natural"
