13 inches of raw pork.

Thank you for all the great insight and information. I have learned quite a bit from this thread. Love the finish. I have admired this picture many times now. I have two BB13CG and I thought about stripping one at least. I would love to do something like this to it. Again, thanks, appreciated.

clampdaddy said:
Definitely. The blasting leaves a very smooth finish that can be brought to a shine easily with a little elbow grease. The smoothness of the machine work will be what determines how much work the job will be. I've blasted some that wouldn't require much work at all. This one.......wasn't one of them. Lol!
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Ladams19 said:
Thank you for all the great insight and information. I have learned quite a bit from this thread. Love the finish. I have admired this picture many times now. I have two BB13CG and I thought about stripping one at least. I would love to do something like this to it. Again, thanks, appreciated.
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No problem. Feel free to ask any questions you might have along the way.
 
I wonder if that Weather Silver finish is any harder to strip than regular coatings ? Did any strip Hammer Silver finish yet from mystery bags ?
 
TheMtnMan said:
I wonder if that Weather Silver finish is any harder to strip than regular coatings ? Did any strip Hammer Silver finish yet from mystery bags ?
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Haven't done silver, but the green wasn't any harder than any other to remover. The fisheyes in that coating did let some etchant thru when I was etching the logo. Left little dimples around the logo.
 
I had quite a few tooling lines and gremlin marks clamp. But for what I had intended this 13lade to do 13efore I received it....not once did I care what it was going to look like after I stripped it. I personally enjoy taking a stone to the flats, gettin drunk and slowly grind away at the rough spots. Eventually I'll reveal the masterpiece underneath. One of my gremlin marks looks like a Z so I love it!
 
zombieassassin said:
.....I personally enjoy taking a stone to the flats, gettin drunk and slowly grind away at the rough spots. Eventually I'll reveal the masterpiece underneath........
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One of these days I'm going to pour a tall one and try doing a hammered finish on one. I have the plan and the means, but I have not yet found the courage. Lol!
 
What do you think guys? I kind of think a finish like this would look kinda cool on the flats of a blade. Kinda looks like INFI dimples.

 
Not sure how well it would work on INFI though. I imagine the INFI is probably tougher than the needles and won't dimple nearly as easily as that piece of mild steel did.
 
It reminds me of the hammered silver covering we have seen since the grab bags. I got a Ratweiler with bruiser handles and the hammered finish blade. My daughter loves it, she is 12. She says the finish looks like silver and feels like silk, she just oooh and ahs over it. So she claimed it for her own. She said she was going to carry it in her purse when she is older. I imagine the look on a rude boyfriends face if she was to pull that beast out lols...anyway I digress. I think a finish like what you are showing would work great. Any finish that shows the steel is great yet is matte finish is even better and is one that I prefer I love the satin and polished as well don't get me wrong, I just don't like that reflection. I guess too many years in the military and getting gruff when anything was shiny has ruined me to it for personal use.

clampdaddy said:
What do you think guys? I kind of think a finish like this would look kinda cool on the flats of a blade. Kinda looks like INFI dimples.

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After reading this I did a bit of research on the pneumatic needle guns. It would work great on pre hardened steel. On INFI it is going to be a bit tougher. The needles are hardened of course. I think if you take it slow it would work but you might blow through some needles in the process. I have been hand sanding an older INFI blade, it eats the sandpaper like nothing. As a matter of a fact, I thought it was a bad batch of paper so I put it on a piece of 1084 raw steel and it worked fine. So I got a good laugh on how durable the surface of INFI really is. I was sanding my rear end off and nothing was happening. Stuff is tough but its steel and there is always something out there harder than it is, just a matter of being sure you got tungsten tips or something. my two ignorant cents of the subject. If you make it work though, it will be a killer finish imho.

clampdaddy said:
I used one of those pneumatic needle guns that welders use for chipping slag.
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That's cool clamp, do that and then bead blast it....sweet. You could call it Needle Blasted Competition Finish.
 
Ladams19 said:
It reminds me of the hammered silver covering we have seen since the grab bags. I got a Ratweiler with bruiser handles and the hammered finish blade. My daughter loves it, she is 12. She says the finish looks like silver and feels like silk, she just oooh and ahs over it. So she claimed it for her own. She said she was going to carry it in her purse when she is older. I imagine the look on a rude boyfriends face if she was to pull that beast out lols...anyway I digress. I think a finish like what you are showing would work great. Any finish that shows the steel is great yet is matte finish is even better and is one that I prefer I love the satin and polished as well don't get me wrong, I just don't like that reflection. I guess too many years in the military and getting gruff when anything was shiny has ruined me to it for personal use.
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Gotta love it when little girls take intrest in your hobbies. My five year old daughter has claimed the BG AK47 I got in one of my grab bags. She calls it "the zombie chopper". I asked why she would want a knife that's almost as big as her and she said "because I'm little and can't reach with a little knife". Lol!
 
LOL, I am both proud and a bit alarmed when my kids say stuff like that. quick story, the school called me in a couple of months ago. Reason? well my daughter was being too aggressive during a soccer game and the other girls where worried they might get hit by the ball when she kicked it "too hard". So I get in the office and listened to the teachers, trying not to smirk. They told me over and over again how her aggression made the other girls feel scared of the ball. I told the teachers I would talk to her. I did. On the way out of the school I told my daughter to not worry about those snowflakes and lets knock some teeth out. Kids now and days. Crying because someone kicks a soccer ball too hard. Isn't that part of the game? Now every week she comes to me all excited and tells me how they kicked the other teams behind and she scored the most goals because the goalie just moves out of the way when she kicks it. Teachers called me again. I said these few words to them. ""its part of the game, lighten up", "I got nothing else to say on the matter". They have never contacted me again over the issue. I love it when the kids are interested. I am in the process of teaching them how to make your own knife now. We are in the design stages and I want them to draw out the knife they want to make. This way its their own, not one they saw in a magazine or something. You should see some of the crazy designs lol. I have to help them with what is practical though. I showed them the steel sizes and they have to draw the knife in that size area, so it cut down on the 6 foot spiral blades a bit lol.

clampdaddy said:
Gotta love it when little girls take intrest in your hobbies. My five year old daughter has claimed the BG AK47 I got in one of my grab bags. She calls it "the zombie chopper". I asked why she would want a knife that's almost as big as her and she said "because I'm little and can't reach with a little knife". Lol!
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