OK guys lets post some mods.

I spent about 10 hours polishing my DesertJack last night and am almost done 1 side. It is noticeably harder to work with than INFI and the polished metal seems a bit brighter. When I got it from a nice fellow Dog it had been used hard and had some big scratches that needed to be ground out with my dremel and 60 grit disks.
After that I hand polished it totally flat with more 60 grit paper. Then I started going up in grits. Everytime you change grits and sand it flat you see a bunch of scratches that need to be polished out. I would use the dremel to help get the scratches and then finish it flat again by hand. It is hard work but Ib really enjoy it.

When i got to about a 240 grit the hamon just POPPED out all of a sudden.
It looks great and is in the perfect spot. I have seen an M6 where the hamon did not include the tip so it was a really nice bonus. Then at about a 400 grit when it is getting a decent mirror polish it disappears again and is barely visible.
I should be able to bring it out nicely when I am done though. I am leaving the flats the dimpled rough forged finish with a very sharp Japanese finish with a visible hamon on the bevel. I should have some decent photos of one side today and some better ones of the SH-E as well.

I plan on doing a 3 knife set all users transformed into safe queens with SH-E
DesertJack and SS4 all with matching polishes and pouch style sheaths
They all have similar handles and I have all 3 Bussekin companies represented
with Busse the biggest knife then a mid sized Rat and a small Scrapyard.
They are also some of the better models each company has to offer.

I figure I have spent abut 65 hours so far and i am about half done not counting the sheaths. My buddy Branson from CGN has decided to do the sheaths. I considered Jeff because he did such an amazing job on my DFLE sheath but I wanted this to all be amateur labour.