mirror polished titanium: how is it possible?

[freiston]

..... I wasn't after a mirror finish, just something a bit less pleasant to put in my mouth.....

eh?

- takes all sorts....

The spoons - worse than eating ice cream off a rough old wooden spoon before I took the scotchbrite to them.

. . . I bought a couple of cheap titanium long handled spoons with a rough (bead blasted?) finish that I didn't like in my mouth, so I polished them smooth . . .

[Brucey]

if you use abrasive paper as I have described (start with the finest grade that removes all the extant scratches) and finish off with solvol autosol (or similar) then 5-10 mins should be plenty long enough to make a big difference. Obviously a whole bike frame will take a bit longer.

Note that abrasive paper soon wears when you are using it on metal. Often, you can hear/see/feel the difference fresh paper makes; as soon as that changes you are certainly not working as fast as possible and you might be wasting your time altogether.