When you start to polish your knife, all of the heavy grinding and sanding marks should be removed. The #1 wheel will remove light scratches. If scratches do appear after the #1 procedure, you should go back to the grinder and try to take them out. I come off of a 400-grit belt sprayed with TFL 50.

Polishing time is approximately 1 - 1 1/2 minutes. Although you must remove all scratches, there can be too much time spent on the wheel. You must apply considerable pressure at this point, but decrease pressure to each wheel.
On this operation you only polish the metal parts of the knife. Try to stay away from the handle as much as possible.
The #1 wheel is a 9" airway wheel, treated, and the compound is the #2-3 compound that I had specially made for me. It will cut very fast and will not distort any of the grind lines on your knife. I had these wheels cut to my specifications at 9". I find that 9" is as large a wheel as I can go without getting too much surface feet for the speed of the buffer and the operation. A 10" wheel or larger tends to give me too much surface feet and could cause orange peel in my knife.

Polishing time is approximately 1 - 1 1/2 minutes. Again only polish the metal parts of the knife and try to stay away from the handle as much as possible.
This wheel is fairly aggressive and it will remove some scratches, but not a whole lot. It starts the coloring process in your knife, and starts bringing out the luster.

Polishing time is approximately 1 - 1 1/2 minutes. Again only polish metal parts, and begin decreasing pressure against the wheel.
This wheel is soft and it brings out quite a bit of luster in your knife. It levels out all marks left from the other wheels, and now there should be NO scratches in your knife at all.

Polishing time is again 1 - 1 1/2 minutes and you should be using less pressure against the wheel.
This wheel is a radial arc wheel, similar to the #2 wheel, only softer. This wheel really starts to put shine and luster on your knife, especially the handle. It will polish heavy scratches from white Micarta, which is sometimes hard to polish, without leaving any orange peel. This wheel will polish any material without any distortion. You can now polish all parts of your knife.

This wheel is strictly a finishing wheel. When you polish on this wheel, it is like hand-rubbing your knife with a soft cloth. You can spend more time on this wheel because it takes very little compound. It removes all residue and compound and puts a deep luster on your blade and handle. Use very light pressure on this wheel.