560 regrind

[solidorange]

Your disclaimer scares me a bit Have you ever done this?

I have not, but there are plenty of threads out there from people who have. :thumbup:

 

[Folderguy]

I've done those kinds of things with many of my knives. Once it's done, it's totally personalized. Others may not like it, but who cares if I do?

That's just silly, of course it's still a ZT, what else would it be? A customized or modified ZT, sure, but a ZT nonetheless.

As for why, maybe he liked the other attributes of the knife, abbé he had an extra and wanted something different, or maybe he just plain felt like it.

 

[NeverMore1701]

I'm gonna have to give that acid wash a try, won't be with my 561 though (at first, anyway ).

 

[wobly]

I'm gonna have to give that acid wash a try, won't be with my 561 though (at first, anyway ).

I'm thinking the same thing. I have a couple of blades in mind.

 

[Folderguy]

I've done the acid wash on several knives, including a Benchmade 755 MPR, a Benchmade Bone Collector fixed blade, a couple other Benchmades also, a Zero Tolerance 0200, a ZT 0100, a Cold Steel folding boot knife, a Timber Rattler Bowie, and a few others. One thing is a simple acid wash, the other is to mask off part of the blade and introduce a pattern and produce not simply a wash but an etching, which I like, alot.

I'd suggest trying it first on a kitchen knife, or a beater knife, to see how it comes out. There are several Youtube videos with some fellows showing how they did it.

Makes for very interesting, personalized knives. Not for everyone, though.

 

[gooeytek]

I used muriatic acid on my Gayle Bradley, Air, PPT, Rake, and the scales on my Leek. I cleaned everything with acetone and denatured alcohol beforehand, but the Rake blade developed some pitting on the 14C28N part, while the CPM-D2 was unaffected. I had to sand off the effects and might do that again sometime. The Leek scales had some unaffected spots around the screw holes, but the overall finish started to resemble that of my Ti-ZDP Leek. The CPM-M4 blades from the Gayle Bradley and Air were in it for about 20 minutes, while the S30V of the PPT took about 2 hours on and off, to get the effect you see.