1st attempt at stone washing

coop1957

coop1957

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Watched a couple of videos on youtube and tried to try it myself on my Delica 4.
Pleased with how it turned out. Pretty easy to do. Took about hour and a half.
Did the blade, pocket clip and the lock bar.
Delica4stonewashed.jpg

One thing they don't mention in videos is that after stone washing the blade may not open as freely as before. This is easily solved by polishing up the steel on both sides in the pivot hole are.
 
That came out looking good, IMO. I'd actually be tempted to now go back and polish out the flats of the blade behind the grind, and possibly the flat face of the clip.
 
Komitadjie said:
That came out looking good, IMO. I'd actually be tempted to now go back and polish out the flats of the blade behind the grind, and possibly the flat face of the clip.
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Not certain which areas you are trying to describe. By flat face of the clip are you saying the part of the pocket clip which comes into contact with the handle/scale?
 
I was thinking the outer face, with the logo on it. Leave all sides and rounds with stone-wash, including the curve-in where it grips your pocket and the tip, and just polish the single big face. Possibly using a lacquer-stick or something like it to fill the logo in black and make it pop out even more. :D
 
You should have taped up the contact areas, or just polish them after the stone wash. I would polish the sides of the lock bar that make contact with the liners and the part that makes contact with the blade. I would also polish the parts of the blade that make contact with the liners and the round surface that makes contact with the lock bar. You can even polish the spring bar since it makes contact with the liners unless it is centered perfectly.
 
Yea you got to do some polishing afterwards. You can't really tape off any parts during the stonewashing. I don't think the tape would survive the tumbling.
 
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