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<p>[QUOTE="Steersman, post: 76749, member: 239"]<font size="5">They may well be stainless steel but it is possible to get tool steel this shiny fairly easily. </font></p><p><font size="5"><br /></font></p><p><font size="5">I did it while learning about media blasting. I blasted a some old tool heads with garnet grit. Way overdid it and it left them looking a sickly gray color. I hit them with a wire brush in an angle grinder. With very little effort they shine like mirrors.</font></p><p><font size="5"><br /></font></p><p><font size="5">Not really the sort of thing for antique tools, but they'd look pretty jazzy in a shop.</font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Steersman, post: 76749, member: 239"][SIZE=5]They may well be stainless steel but it is possible to get tool steel this shiny fairly easily. I did it while learning about media blasting. I blasted a some old tool heads with garnet grit. Way overdid it and it left them looking a sickly gray color. I hit them with a wire brush in an angle grinder. With very little effort they shine like mirrors. Not really the sort of thing for antique tools, but they'd look pretty jazzy in a shop.[/SIZE][/QUOTE]
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