Polishing a slide

[Littlejoe]

Has anyone here ever polished a slide on a Kahr? I am thinking my cm9 would look cool with a polished slide.Plus the edges on my slide are so sharp that I have to wear gloves if I shoot alot.Was thinking it would smooth things out. I have seen it done on Glocks but never on a Kahr. Pics would be great if anyone has some.:D

Thanks,
Littlejoe

[cesande]

There's your que JFootin ! LoL

[Tinman507]

Oh, just you wait until JFootin comes on and shows you his Kahr.
Your eyes are gonna pop out.

[Littlejoe]

Oh, just you wait until JFootin comes on and shows you his Kahr.
Your eyes are gonna pop out.So it has been done. how did he go about it?

[KMA]

I have never polished a Karh, but I have polished and dehorned a couple of 1911s (slide and frame). To polish them I use first a Dremel along with Ryobi Soft Metal Cleaning Compound (http://www.ryobitools.com/catalog/accessories/buffing_accessories/A04SM01) from Home Depot, and after it I use the Dremel again with Flitz. When I am done the firearm literally looks like a mirror.

[Tinman507]

Littlejoe,

I seriously don't want to steal JFootin's thunder. He'll show you photos and tell you all about it. Suffice it to say he is beyond proud of his piece. Rightfully so.

[JFootin]

I must humbly admit that I bought it this way. Paid about $50-60 more than they were going for at the time, so I think I got a great deal. Here is my post right after I bought it. It has two links in it. The first one is to the for sale thread I responded to, with a good description of how it was done and what all was polished and smoothed on the gun. The second one is to my Photobucket slide show.

http://kahrtalk.com/showpost.php?p=78028&postcount=1

[Bawanna]

I polished my PM45 not nearly to the mirror finish of Jfootins but shiny.

I started with 400 grit automotive or Wet/Dry sandpaper and worked my way up to like 1200 grit. Use a block or a flat surface.

At that point you can go to a bench polisher with polishing compound.

If you had a good polishing set up I suppose with different grits of compound you could forgo the sandpaper but for what I had it was the only way to go.

To get the mirror finish I'd just have to keep going with finer sandpaper and a lot more time on the polish wheel.

I'll see if I can find any pictures of mine.

[Bawanna]

http://kahrtalk.com/showthread.php?t=3290&highlight=pm45+polish

Check out this thread. Copper and Black was one of the first that talked about polishing here and he did a couple just like Jfootins.

My PM45 is also pictured on about page 3 and looks disgusting compared to his but I honestly didn't want to go to the signal mirror level. I did intend to polish more as time allows and have been pondering do so of late.

For now it works for me and it's something that you can easily do on the installment plan.

[JFootin]

http://kahrtalk.com/showthread.php?t=3290&highlight=pm45+polish

Check out this thread. Copper and Black was one of the first that talked about polishing here and he did a couple just like Jfootins.

My PM45 is also pictured on about page 3 and looks disgusting compared to his but I honestly didn't want to go to the signal mirror level. I did intend to polish more as time allows and have been pondering do so of late.

For now it works for me and it's something that you can easily do on the installment plan.

That looks fine, Bawanna. Probably not as sensitive to finger prints. I have to wipe mine every time I touch the slide or any of the metal parts.

[getsome]

If you want to do it yourself go to Summit Racing summitracing.com and they sell a kit with two buffing wheels and the solid polishing compound blocks in different grits, course to fine...The wheels mount to a standard bench grinder...Not sure of the price but they sell quality stuff...Good luck