The final touch

[baraw]

Hi all,
Here's my stropping board for removing the burr, and putting that final touch on a newly sharpened blade. It's a small wooden plank with sheath making leather glued to it. I then smear chrome polish on the leather. It works great and is made from scraps, so the only real cost is the polish.

[culpeper]

Cool. What's in the tube and what kind of beer is that?:)

[baraw]

The tube is the Chrome polish, Autosol. It's sometning they sell in autoparts stores and gas stations here in Norway. The beer is also Norwegian. It's brewed by Mack, which I think is the world's northernmost brewery. It's this year's Christmas brew... makes Christmas a whole lot merrier:D.

[Noss]

baraw: Welcome to the forum. I have some chrome polish. I didn't think of using it on knives. I'm just about of the stuff I got with my sharpener. I don't even know what it is ? It looks and smells like Noxzema. so I'll give the chrome polish a try.

[baraw]

Hey there,
Thanks for the welcome... nice to find some like minded folk.

[Izan]

Welcome to the forum dude! I will have to give that chrome polish a shot as I am going to be restoring and re profiling a friends bali-song.

[jjjsssf]

Goodbye you pos spammer

[Richard J]

i hate spammers

[Madnumforce]

Hi european fellow!

Yes, what you call "chrome polish" is in fact chrome oxyde, and we use it in professionnal polishing for the final mirror buffing of blades. It generally comes as green, blue or white paste friable cylinders (abrasive mixed with grease), and is lot lot lot cheaper than those tubes you show (a cylinder of 8 cm diameter and 30 or 40 cm length is about the same price then a tube).