Making Finishing Touch to Putty Knife After Rust Removal

[bourbon]

Mine doesn't get a lot of use nowadays to be honest. I used to make more use of one when I was in restoration and single glazed windows were come across more often. Nowadays in most places they are rare. Also I find that a stanley knife does just as good a job. Just really posted that picture to show that something perhaps not 100% perfect is perfectly acceptable and useable. Incidentally and completely off topic but I realise the camera on the tablet is absolute shite...

You are used to using decent standalone cameras though

[Grendel]

True I should have used the pentax with the tamron or flec really...

[ugoleaf]

Incidentally and completely off topic but I realise the camera on the tablet is absolute shite...

Try shooting under good lighting conditions. At least near open window.
I have this LED that plugs into smartphone's 3.5mm audio port like this one:


But it is easier for me to grab Energizer emergency light:


Here is a shot of putty knife after slight renewal. It still has pits which cannot be polished as mentioned.
I thought maybe polishing disc can take care of that but I do not have the necessary gear.
Before renewal it was complete and thick rust but I do not have a photo:

Putty knife after

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[Grendel]

Unfortunately that shot of my knife was shot in good lighting conditions , natural light but the tablet just never really renders anything sharp enough. I perhaps should have used the camera or even the phone but I used the tablet for ease and quickness.
You haven't done too bad a job of cleaning up yours. You could perhaps give it a blast on a belt sander with something like a 120-150 belt on it. That would clean it up even more quite quickly although of course would thin it down a bit. To be absolutely pedantic that's what I would call a scraper rather than a putty knife but if you are using it for applying putty then it's a putty knife. I do find that a spray of something like WD40 just prior to tooling up putty can help with the finish.

[ugoleaf]

Unfortunately that shot of my knife was shot in good lighting conditions , natural light but the tablet just never really renders anything sharp enough. I perhaps should have used the camera or even the phone but I used the tablet for ease and quickness.

Is it branded tablet or generic?

To be absolutely pedantic that's what I would call a scraper rather than a putty knife but if you are using it for applying putty then it's a putty knife. I do find that a spray of something like WD40 just prior to tooling up putty can help with the finish.

I thought putty knife and scraper are interchangeable... I wiped it with WD-40 as well as filing tools because they are stored in humid conditions. You mean I should put WD-40 on it before giving it polish with belt sander?

[Grendel]

Amazon tablet . I wouldn't normally touch amazon but it was brought for me.
The designation might be variable depending on where one lives but here in staffordshire yours would be a scraper and mine a putty knife. Not really importsnt what it's called as long as it does the job.
I meant a quick spray with WD40 just prior to using it. It's also possible to use white spirit or even water . Stops the putty sticking to the knife and dragging as you tool it up. Bit like using a bit of soapy water when tooling mastic