9 w/sassafras patina ?

Nice work! I've seen all kinds of patinas from salsa to vinegar to mango chutney. Sassafras is a new one for me.
Now go dirty it up and wear that patina off so you can try something else! :D
 
Is this called starting from scratch????......LOL......Lookin' good!!!!!!!!..... Nice effect.....

Ethan
 
There is nothing like the look of wood! That tea did a really nice job on your knife! Thanks for the education.
 
ArcheoMark said:
There is nothing like the look of wood! That tea did a really nice job on your knife! Thanks for the education.
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Thanks
The knife already had a hot sauce patina but while removing the bark from the sassafras I noticed it was making minor changes to the patina.
The real goal was the sassafras tea.
 
Sassafras is the primary flavoring in sassparilla and root beer right? Does sassafras tea taste like either one of those?
 
Mrknot said:
Sassafras is the primary flavoring in sassparilla and root beer right? Does sassafras tea taste like either one of those?
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It depends on how strong you make it but yes you can taste and smell the sassafras In the tea.

I can usually smell it while walking through the woods during bow season as well
 
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Lookin good leatherneck.:thumbup:

Its nice to worry less about rust but its also fun to watch the patina evolve. I have been compiling a bunch of pictures of the changing patina on my BK15 as it serves kitchen duty.

I'm planning to post a thread of them soon.
 
My grandmother always boiled the chopped roots and threw out the water then boiled again to make sassafrass tea.I rememher digging a fighting position at Ft Cambell when i was an infantryman in the 1/187th and smelling that old familiar smell after hacking through a root with my e tool.I stuck a bunch in my ruck and later when we went admin for an AAR boiling up some tea in my canteen cup over a triox tab.Good stuff and yes it tastes a lot like rootbeer.
 
willis said:
My grandmother always boiled the chopped roots and threw out the water then boiled again to make sassafrass tea.I rememher digging a fighting position at Ft Cambell when i was an infantryman in the 1/187th and smelling that old familiar smell after hacking through a root with my e tool.I stuck a bunch in my ruck and later when we went admin for an AAR boiling up some tea in my canteen cup over a triox tab.Good stuff and yes it tastes a lot like rootbeer.
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did she boil twice rather than just remove the bark from the root and boil once ?

Thats what is on the paper plate with the 9 bark/skin (?) that I removed from the root.
 
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