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How To Make natural buffing compound from a quartz rock

Description

a very short quick tip video on making a buffing compound for tool maintenance

Tags: Quartz (Material In Fiction),Polishing,knife,buffing,tool,maintenance,survival,bushcraft,william myers,mantis outdoors,preparedmind101,Camping,How-to (Media Genre),Wood,Sharpening,cleaning,axe,sword,maintain

Video Transcription

hey guys doing say so William Myers mess outdoors today we're going to show you guys how to recreate a buffing compound for to maintenance out the field so don't go away alright so as you see there's a bunch of flint knapping tools on the on the table floor dose of flint knapping out here showing austin you have some tips and tricks on foot mapping and you have this dad and he was talking about sharpening in the field with sandstone and just uh wanted to show you guys something as well is if you take a nice piece of quartz and you braid it on a harder a piece of rock you're gonna get a slurry off in this course and it's gonna create a nice buffing compound let's let me show you guys how to do right now just taking some that quartz off and make enough paste if you guys ever use buffing compound for your straw or anything like that this is actually a finer grit than that i can't exactly tell you exactly what grip this is but just getting the nice real thick slurry on that's on top of that stone just like so as you can see i'm using water as a binder to collect my slurry let's get that nice and thick on top of that stone that's good enough for this demo and i'm just gonna use my frontier valley i mean i really keep up on my tool maintenance but you'll be able to see the difference in the shine of this this is good for removing you know small pits and rusty things like that and blemishes to your knife just to keep your knife nice and clean before you get anything this really bad and just be mindful of the blade you don't want to get your finger to I have them in the bleh

you know if you're not comfortable with doing this

I love completely understand but you know I've been sharpening knives and handling knife since I was a kid so but just be mindful where the actual blade is all right so just kind of keep rubbing that on until it dries up and then we're going to buff it out with it a piece of cotton cotton bandana or something that

don't you love how all the cars start to come hot right when you want to shoot a video it's filming give them yeah alright that's good enough I'm just gonna take my shirt to buff it out you know the XS hold off the handle stuff you guys be able to see the shine if this puts on the blade surface get that up into the camera guys hopefully I'm gonna see that really good zoomed in pretty good look pretty high shine on that blade you know as far as tool maintenance goes that's just wonderful in my opinion just pull a rock off the ground that's quartz and be able to create a slurry to buff out your knives you definitely did not look like that ten minutes ago that's four four good

all right guys listen William honest minutes out the words just showing you guys how to make a quick buffing compound for tool maintenance with a a good piece of quartz so I hope you enjoyed the video and if you did appreciate it if you click Subscribe like in my video really helps me out a lot I appreciate all your views comments and support hopefully we'll see you out in the woods

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William Myers MantisOutdoors

William Myers MantisOutdoors

Modern and primitive skills, fun in the woods and product reviews

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