Best way to remove writing on blade

[TyFrameLock]

Purchased a Bradley alias to use as a beater instead of my sebenza....tied a lanyard on it and now the only thing bothering me is the Bradley Cutlery logo on the front of the blade...

How can I remove this without screwing up the blade finish??

 

[230grains]

Beadblasting, it will change the finish however.

 

[TyFrameLock]

I've got access to a sandblaster.

Will that work one in the same as the bead blaster?

 

[richard j]

i posted in your other thread but you wouldnt want to use sand but glass bead. sand is too coarse. the logo would still be there but with a frosted look to it if you use glass bead.

 

[230grains]

I'd go aluminum oxide first to take off the logo, then finish with glass beads.

 

[richard j]

if you use something coarse to start with, you'll end up with deep pits that glass beads wont smooth out. before glass beading a blade i put at least a 400 grit finish on it. i would test a piece of meatal first before going to a blade. try to use a hard piece of steel to get similar results.

 

[TyFrameLock]

How much metal am I going to have to remove? Could I do it with my Diamond stones? And finish it with a polishing stone?

I just want the black writing gone...

I think writing on blades is tacky...

 

[richard j]

it would require a lot of progressively finer grits to remove it and a lot of time but you could do it by hand. if you have access to a belt sander that would be the route to go and it would take less time.

 

[TyFrameLock]

Well I found a belt sander @ Work and decided to give it a try....it only had 320 grit paper on it and I couldn't find anything higher, so I just said the hell with it and went to work...

15 minutes later I was done.

Did both sides and smoothed everything out.

Was kinda shiny, so I threw it in a coffee can filled with broken glass to rough it up a bit.

I like how it turned out...but I might trace the shape of the sebenza onto this blade and re profile it to the sebenza profile.

I was going to bead blast the finish, but out blaster was out of commission...will have to wait a few weeks to do that.

Sorry for the poor quality photos lately...my camera is out and i've been using my Lg Tritan.