This shows the blade polished with 1200 grade. At these finer
grades it is important to keep the blade and the water clean.
At 1500 the blade should be very reflective, making it more difficult
to photograph. Note that the dark line along the cutting edge is
a relection.
The blade is highly reflective after being polished with 2000 grade
wet and dry. The temperline is slightly visible. At this stage
it is important to have polished at about 60 degrees to the edge and polished
until the lines from the 1500 grade paper have gone.
The final stage with the wet and dry paper is to polish the entire
blade parallel to the edge with 2000 grade paper. Polish until the
previous 2000 grade line are no longer visible and the temperline should
be quite easy to see.
The next stage is to etch the blade.