As for compounds for taking down stabilized wood I suggest the diamond compounds. On Dymondwood it comes out to a shiny lustrous finish with some 5,000 diamond on a slow moving (550 rpm) cotton buff. Note Stabilized or Dymondwood which is essentially the same thing and I jump from 800 grit sandpaper to 1500 grit diamond buff to 5000 diamond. Wipe with alcohol after. You can buy pure 10,000 grit diamond dust and wet your buff too. I have used diamond to get a small scratch out of the blade after finishing and slipping with the sharpener.
Yeah, I'm the diamond crazy guy cause I do not have a buffer so I use 3" buffing wheels on a drill press at 550 rpms. I'm in Las Cruces, NM now and will be going rattlesnake hunting this weekend in the dark. Makes nice, charge high bux sheaths.
Need to get some knee high boots though I think or
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