How To Finsih Resin Handle

[luckyshotbrooks]

Hello Everybody,
I’ve been stalking this forum for a few months now and have learned a lot. Finally decided to join. So I have searched the web and this forum and can’t find a good answer to my question. I bought some knife scales off eBay for a knife I’m working on for my wife. The handles are made of what appear to be solid resin. My question is what is the best way to finish this. I tried sanding on a test piece but it was full of scratches. I only went as high as 400 on these piece but will go higher once I a full put the knife together. Should I just keep sanding to a higher grit and buff it? Is there something to seal it with to hide the scratches? I appreciate any advice and also appreciate how much y’all have helped me without y’all knowing. Here’s a link to the scales if it will help.
https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https://www.ebay.com/ulk/itm/173210377065

 

[eisman]

Resin is like plastic, you need to get down around 2200 grit and then polish with a polishing compound.

 

[luckyshotbrooks]

I appreciate the reply. I figured so just didn’t want to put in all that work if there was a better way. Do you recommend wet sanding a certain grit? Also what about polishing compound? Any certain brand? Haven’t really polished much before. Thanks again.

 

[MolokaiRider]

http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-Polish-Resin/

Does this link help? Not sure if it's the same kind of material resin you are using...

 

[Bill DeShivs]

After sanding to 400 grit, use 0000 steel wool and buff in the opposite direction that you sanded. Then you need to buff the plastic with fine polishing compound shoe-shine style with a cloth.

 

[luckyshotbrooks]

I appreciate the advice and yes that linked helped out. Thanks again.

 

[O.L.C.]

I am a couple months late, hope this still helps.

I have only done one resin handle, but liked it. It seemed forgiving. I would sand for a bit, then before going to the next higher grit, i hit it with the buffer real quick to make sure I liked the shape and I wasn't missing anybig scratches. Not sure if that is the right thing to do. But worked for me