This is how I hand rub out a blade .It may not be the same as everyone else but it works for me...

I grind about 2/3 of the blade before heat treating it.After heat treating I grind the last 1/3 of the blade.as I finish grind I roll the last section down to the cutting edge giving me a Moran edge.This is pretty well sharp when I come off the grinder.I finish grind with a cleaned,dull 320 grit belt.

I start with a piece of 400 grit and see if I left any deeper scratchs that I would need to take out with 320 grit,If I did as I did here that is where I start at.I srat by rubbing at a angle to the blade removing any deeper scratches.I use a flat piece of micarta to do this.

After getting the deeper scratches out I take a piece of hard sole leather and back my paper,with this I smooth in my Moran'ed edge and start straightening eup my scratch lines.I work in small sections of the blade at first making sure that each section is clean and when I get the next section done I smooth them atogether until I get to the plunge lines.Here I will go across the blade to make sure the lines are even and clean.Then I straighten all the scratches up.

This is as the process is going on to being all in one direction.I did one bevel at a time on this blade.

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