The bicycle riders use Simichrome Polish ...
Dr. Hrisoulas' suggestion exactly. Simichrome or Mother's. I found
Mother's. Worked fine.

That's no good! :/
First, the hand grinder then files then sand paper, in that order.

Crisis over. Sick feeling gone. Off to work now, time to fix the
watches.
Whew.

Reading this thread got my feeling sick, you were going to try some
of the suggestions... other than the ones that said to get ahold of
DrH.

Pictures of the finished piece (the scabbard) later.
Carl West

Cool.

Alvin in AZ