Everything I've read about trying to cold blue a Leatherman says it won't work because Leathermans are stainless steel, and cold bluing doesn't work on stainless. For cold bluing to work, you need to do it on carbon steel. Leatherman uses a different process to make the black oxide versions of their multitools, they say. You can't use gun blue on it.
But this morning I saw an interesting video pop up. Somehow this Russian guy did it. He got all of the tools on his Rebar to have a black finish (except for the file, which he left untouched).
Russian dude makes silver Rebar tools black somehow (youtube link)
The problem is that I don't speak Russian.
Does anyone know how he did this? It looks like he might have learned it from a text conversation with another Russian, but of course I can't read any of the texts.
edit: ah, never mind. I think he just swapped in the tools from a Coyote Tan/Black Oxide version of the Rebar. That's kind of a waste if you ask me, because the Tan/Black version already looks way better than the modded silver/black version that he ended up with.
Still, does anyone know a way to add a black finish to a Leatherman?
But this morning I saw an interesting video pop up. Somehow this Russian guy did it. He got all of the tools on his Rebar to have a black finish (except for the file, which he left untouched).
Russian dude makes silver Rebar tools black somehow (youtube link)
The problem is that I don't speak Russian.
Does anyone know how he did this? It looks like he might have learned it from a text conversation with another Russian, but of course I can't read any of the texts.
edit: ah, never mind. I think he just swapped in the tools from a Coyote Tan/Black Oxide version of the Rebar. That's kind of a waste if you ask me, because the Tan/Black version already looks way better than the modded silver/black version that he ended up with.
Still, does anyone know a way to add a black finish to a Leatherman?
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