Polish the “bowl” on ti spoon?

You need a bench style buffing wheel and compound. Easy? If you like standing at the bench for an hour or so. A cheap 6" bench buffer is about $40 and a few dollars more for compound. That and the risk of it flying about the shop— very exciting if the buffing wheel whips it out of you hands. I'd just buy a shiny spoon or live with it as is.

That said, with the right stuff, you can polish anything.

Sounds easy enough Dale! :) Ha! Thank you for the revelation.

Makes sense, based on all I've read about ti on this forum. Oh well, no biggie – was just hoping!

A free piece of 400 grit sandpaper and 5 minutes,then wash it and your done. Pm me if you can't find sandpaper local I'll send you some. Mine are smooth as glass.

400 grit? Smoothed, yes and you could go 600 grit or even finer, but polished means you should be able to see yourself. There are such Ti spoons and sporks available.

As Lee above noted , it's easily done with 400-600 grit. I finished it off with some steel wool. Took me about 15 mins.

Very cool folks! Thank you for the insight & good pic!! I assume you used 00 steel wool?

A kind soul here on BPL (another example of this community's kindness) is sharing an unused polished spoon with me. I have a friend here who is getting started in UL hiking and I'll PIF some gear to him.

400grit carborundum paper(wet/dry,) not common sandpaper, works best. I just sanded the black "roughness" off making the pot less susceptible to scorching/sticking. I don't think steel wool is quite hard enough to do a good job, but I never spent any real time with it, either. Like Lee and Robert said, it only takes 15-20 minutes to get rid of the "blackness" on the pots. BTW, it is a messy job, use plenty of water.

Another and simpler option is a Dremel tool if you already have one. You can buy different grit sandpaper in a wheel or other configurations, plus buffing tools. Rubbing compounds come in different grades and the best method is too use a 3-compound approach – rough to fine and do not cross pollinate your buffing tools with the different compounds. Of course, if you don't already have all these tools, you could probably buy a dozen Ti spoons for the cost.

We used crocus cloth for polishing metal. However this for lathe work, so it went pretty fast. Iron oxide paper. Easy to recognize since it is red.

Iron oxide is fun stuff. I impregnated an old leather belt with it and use it for stropping knives. I won't go into the thermite….

Wouldn't it be nice if the bowl was parabolic and you polished it to a mirror finish?

(Fixed the spelling)

That should be crocus cloth.

Cheers

polished [pol-isht]

adjective

1.made smooth and glossy:
a figurine of polished mahogany.

Since OP used the verb form in his thread title…

pol·ish ˈpäliSH
verb

make the surface of (something) smooth and shiny by rubbing it.
improve, refine, or add the finishing touches to.

Looks like the 600-400grit sand paper will work just fine for that purpose.

I have toagree that the sandpaper method gives a good surface for the cost. Ineed to get some finer compound so I can see myself.