Originally Posted by
1hole
How/why? Seems if a high polish is slicker then we shouldn't even need a lube, just a better polish! Nope.
You know "cross hatch" lubes great for rings and cylinders but don't otherwise reduce friction, right? (Actually, I thought holding lube is all the cross hatch is surface is supposed to do. ??) But you believe micro-hatch (matt finished) sizers won't hold lube better than polished? Well ....
I can easily polish my dies to mirror finish if I wish but I've found they're slicker/easier to use when matt finished! That experiment's result wasn't what I expected but that's what happened when I tested it so I have now matted them all using a green Scotchbrite pad on a snug fitting wooden mandrel chucked in a drill; that works great!
I don't care what others do so I give my suggestions and reasoning but I won't further argue the point. Well, except noting that "common wisdom" says shiny dies are slicker but "common wisdom" is often wrong. Remember when the experts told us everything electrical would crash when Y2K rolled over? And remember how sure Algore and other greenie experts were that the world would burn passed livable in what, two years? or five years? or ten years? Or, today, how we're promised that common drug store paper or fabric dust masks are expected to filter C-19 even tho we know shorts and jeans won't begin to restrain a fart? Etc. I do.
I don't know who promised reloaders that mirror sizer surfaces would hold a film of case lube better and work slicker than matt surfaces but I've learned to disagree. YMMV but I know it's not true in my little shop.