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Post by Deleted on Jan 14, 2011 9:20:53 GMT
vincentninja68,i saw you document minutes ago,and i know a famous Chinese armorer,he is very professional in making swords ,maybe you two can communicate with each other,but he is poor in English.....
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Post by Deleted on Jan 14, 2011 9:57:38 GMT
I think i'll figure it out on my own. I appreciate your explanation, but could you make it Not a wall of text? I really wanna read what you have to say, but it's rather difficult..and overwhelming atm.
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Post by Hiroshi on Jan 14, 2011 17:40:34 GMT
Hey tom, you name the time and place and my dangle will be there for you, you sexy troll ;-)
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Post by TomK on Jan 14, 2011 18:14:17 GMT
HIroshi,
LOL oh you wait until I'm on the other side of the country to say that! something tells me you don't mean it.
vincentninja68,
wall-o-text, yup that's what that was. sorry, I'll try to slim it down.
the first thing you do must be to use a grit of paper coarse enough to completely remove all scratches and flaws. sometimes this means you must use very rough stuff. polish the whole blade with the rough paper always moving in one direction only and in nice tight straight lines, no circles or swirlies. I even go so far as to not go back and forth: just one direction (I like hilt-to-point)
once you have a very even scratch pattern (your sword will look ugly now) from your roughest paper get paper of the next finer grit. so if you started with 120 grit then 220 grit is next. whatever direction you moved in with the 120 go 90-degrees different with 220 and remove EVERY 120 scratch. make the 220 scratches a perfect even pattern on whole sword then move to 300 and use it at 90 degrees from the 220 pattern (same direction as 120) and erase 220.
repeat this with the next higher grit until you get the level of polish you want. to get mirror polish you will need to go really high like 2000 grit or higher.
it is VERY important to remove EVERY scratch of each grit level before moving on. so if you are working with 400 grit you MUST remove EVERY scratch of lower than 400 grit before you move on to 600 grit.
hope that is easier on your eyes, it is hard to really make it small there's a lot of info.
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