Best way to remove cheap-a** coating on my 8$ knife.

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JackAColeman

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ive got an mtech 8$ knife with a tanto blade and i wanted to know how to remove the coating and make it just the natural finish.

also, is it possible to reshape the blade into like a drop point? (probably a long shot)
 
You should try a strong solvent like brake cleaner, mineral spirits or paint thinner if you have any laying around.. Thats how I strip all my black Spyderco clips. It works great, and its fast. A wire wheel is also a great quick and easy way to strip paint
 
I have some cheap knives from my early days and the Maxams were capable of being sharpened to very sharp edges. The MTechs, on the other hand, came dull and can't be sharpened, even though they're supposed to sport 440A blades. In short, I doubt you can put any kind of an edge on your knife.

How to get the finish off? I wish I could tell you there was a chemical, but I think you'll have to use Scotch-Brite or sandpaper. Part of the problem is not knowing what the finish is. Is it a type of Teflon or is it paint? I've got two MTechs and the finish on both are different. For $8.00, I'd just get a knife that didn't have a black finish.
 
im not looking for another (cheap) knife, its just that i dont care about this knife any more, so i thought id mess with it.
 
You can reshape the blade into a drop point style. There would be two main steps needed to do this; 1. grind down the actual edge to your preference. 2. redo the primary grinds on a large wheel or belt to take away the grind of the tanto.

Honestly I think this would be far more work then it's worth but if that's what you want to do, more power to ya.
 
Get some paint stripper at Lowes or Home Depot or similar. Comes in a can and foams up. Will cost you more than the knife itself, but it seems to work on everything (except Cold Steel's weird coatings).
 
You always think paint strippers/mineral spirits/etc will take paint off like you want but they seem to do nothing, IME. They just seem so mild and even if they help a little, you still have to scrub them off or whatever. And sometimes they don't even come off cleanly, and you're left with a pale hint that black paint used to be there or something. Like a slight dark tint. I don't want to have to spend a lot of time scraping it off and trying to get into nooks and crannys and all of that, I want something that just annihilates the paint and just curdles it up and bubbles it off and just leaves you with pure, beautiful, bare metal underneath after you simply rinse the chemical and the remnants of the paint right off. The only thing I've ever found that does this perfectly is Aircraft Remover. It's an extremely harsh chemical (foam) and I don't want to know what's in it, but it's just so, so, so far beyond paint strippers and any other chemical I know of. Paint thinners and strippers are just meant to help loosen up typical paint, especially un-dry paint to clean it up and such. It works pretty well for cleaning paint out of carpet, but it's nothing capered to Aircraft Remover. Aircraft Remover would probably eat right through your carpet. It's made for stripping the paint of airplanes. You could spray it on the extremely hard and durable paint on a car and it will leave bar metal. You could scrub all day with turpentine and mineral spirits and still not get through the clear coat on a car.

Anyway, I think I've made my point. If you really want to strip a hard finish right off, I'd try some Aircraft Remover, but be careful. You can get it at auto stores like Auto Zone (locked up with the spray paint :eek:
 
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