It can save some work, Cold One. Since this knife already had a full flat grind, all I really had to do was sand the tang and unground parts. But I didn't do that. I just buffed the flats of the blade and called it good.
Here is a factory satin RD next to the quickie 3rd World model.

Notice that the tang areas, the unground flats, are left dimpled and just buffed along with the flat ground blade. The Scotchbrite wheels do an amazing job in a short time.