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Hi. I'm trying my hand at anodizing and have a few questions I'm hoping someone can help me with.
Using a Boos Blade Smoke TM1. Use whink rust remove to strip the old anodization. Dip into distilled water to clean it off. Spray with Greased Lightning and scrub with a toothbrush. Another distilled water bath.
For the ano solution I just sprinkle a generous amount of baking soda into a pint of water. By no means would I say alot of baking soda though. Maybe this is part of my problem? Negative of my batteries are just hooked up to stranded copper wire in the ano solution, and I dip the piece in with titanium wire attached to the positive side of the batteries. I think Im doing this mostly correct, but would be happy to change something. Oh and I wear rubber gloves to keep my hand oils off of everything.
1.) I'm using whink rust removed to strip the factory coating off my Boos Blade knife. It took..... probably 10 minutes to strip each piece. However, when I strip my own anodizing it's off in a couple of seconds. Whats happening here? Is a factory finish somehow significantly different from the baking soda/distilled water and 9V batteries setup?
2.) Is whink a good choice for stripping or is there something better?
3.) The factory finish was nice and very smooth, but after stripping with whink and reanodizing, its .... nowhere near the smooth finish that it used to be. Do people typically coat these in some protective clear to protect the finish? Mine feels and looks very much like rough bare metal if that makes any sense. It also seems super prone to dirt. I wash my hands before touching the knife, but there is still some residue or something that doesn't appear with any of my other titanium knives.
4.) After anodizing, do you need to do anything to keep it looking its absolute best? I intentionally put knife oil on my anodization and it looks like shit, but that wasn't the case with the factory ano job.
Am I don't anything clearly way wrong? Any advice wold be greatly appreciated!
Using a Boos Blade Smoke TM1. Use whink rust remove to strip the old anodization. Dip into distilled water to clean it off. Spray with Greased Lightning and scrub with a toothbrush. Another distilled water bath.
For the ano solution I just sprinkle a generous amount of baking soda into a pint of water. By no means would I say alot of baking soda though. Maybe this is part of my problem? Negative of my batteries are just hooked up to stranded copper wire in the ano solution, and I dip the piece in with titanium wire attached to the positive side of the batteries. I think Im doing this mostly correct, but would be happy to change something. Oh and I wear rubber gloves to keep my hand oils off of everything.
1.) I'm using whink rust removed to strip the factory coating off my Boos Blade knife. It took..... probably 10 minutes to strip each piece. However, when I strip my own anodizing it's off in a couple of seconds. Whats happening here? Is a factory finish somehow significantly different from the baking soda/distilled water and 9V batteries setup?
2.) Is whink a good choice for stripping or is there something better?
3.) The factory finish was nice and very smooth, but after stripping with whink and reanodizing, its .... nowhere near the smooth finish that it used to be. Do people typically coat these in some protective clear to protect the finish? Mine feels and looks very much like rough bare metal if that makes any sense. It also seems super prone to dirt. I wash my hands before touching the knife, but there is still some residue or something that doesn't appear with any of my other titanium knives.
4.) After anodizing, do you need to do anything to keep it looking its absolute best? I intentionally put knife oil on my anodization and it looks like shit, but that wasn't the case with the factory ano job.
Am I don't anything clearly way wrong? Any advice wold be greatly appreciated!