knife polishing;

[countrydanny2012]

I am not a knife maker, but want to know about having a blade polished or just leaving it the way that it is,

the steel is d 2 it has a blemish from when the steel was heat treated in making this knife and has a few pits also,

can it be polished out to have a nice shine .

any sugestions.

thanks.

[Miller Bro's]

An unusual knife, I never seen stampings like that on a blade before.

It can be polished out

[countrydanny2012]

thanks for your response, what is the best way to do the polishing and with what is it something that I can do myself

or take it to someone that knows how to do it right.

thanks.

[Miller Bro's]

Get some polishing compound like Flitz®, Simichrome®, etc. with a soft rag and polish it out by hand, keep away from a power buffer if you are inexperienced. With a little elbow grease you should get that spot out no problem

[countrydanny2012]

thanks,its a start

[knife7knut]

I'm not so sure that the pitting can be removed by polishing;they look a bit deep to me.What will likely happen is if you attempt to polish a pit that deep out of the blade(especially a concave grind)you will likely wind up with a larger shiny divot in the blade which in my opinion will look far worse.If it is just a slight surface pitting the old lead pencil rubbed across it will usually remove it or at the least make it less noticeable.
Removing deep pitting is best left to someone(preferably the original maker)who is capable of using a drum sander properly.

[reddirtknives]

welcome danny, that is the fanciest advertising knife that I have ever seen… K7K gave you good information and advice. The pitting that is out towards the tip will require experience and I agree with K7K preferably by the fella who did the grinding, if this guy who ground it lives in some other part of the world then you will probably want to search locally..To make that pit go away it requires the removal of metal you have to sand or grind a tiny bit deeper that the pitted area and the only way to make it look good and basically go away is to remove metal that deep all around it too and then blend it back as well as you can in and with the original grind. But where that pitting is located it could throw off more than basic blade grind and could get into the blade shape or profile itself you could even lose the tip or make it too thin right there and whatever you do out on the tip to make it look and function properly will have to be done on the other side as well… Tips are pretty important... to me anyway.. You should call the maker, I think he stamped his phone number into the tang which is making me think that it's an older knife because he had room under his phone number for his email addy
good luck