Bk11 coating question.

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The1trueBeavis

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Will a vinegar patina damage the coating on new bk11's? I've sanded and polished the blade on a bk11 and wanted to patina the spine and can't think of a way to do so without some of the coated handle and bare blade being submerged. Will painters tape keep this from affecting anything?

Thanks.

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Before I try to give you an answer...
Your just wanting to patina the bare spine?
The rest of the knife still has the coating on?
 
The spine? I just did that for fun last night. Well, I did the blade too. I took a small bit of mustard on my finger tip and just went with a really light coat all over the knife, spine included. Then set the knife on the counter for 10 minutes while I ate. It really is that quick....and painless. Try "spilling" some vinegar on the kitchen countertop and then set the part of the knife you want patina'd (spine down) on the top of it for a few minutes and see what you get. The vinegar should not affect the factory coating I don't think, but I would just put the portion of the spine I wanted patina'd in the vinegar anyway. I mean, why dip it, wrap it or any other high speed technique. Keep it simple. It aint rocket surgery man! LOL
 
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Ok here's what brought me to this point. Got a new bk11 (my first) and went out to use it .She didn't do as well as I knew a flat ground blade with great geometry should. Also I noticed wear on the coating (before I used it) around the very top of the bevel. I also couldn't get the knife very sharp, I think it was from me trying to use my spyderco sm and instead of metal I was rubbing off coating. I strip it, polish up to 600 and it worked wonderfully. Took a good edge, made good feather stick, batoned it 4 or 5 times and was very happy. Until I got a look at the spine, the sanding was uneven and the coating was angled. It was a diaganol line with some light coating left so I sanded it, still angled, sanded, still angled! I'm now about 2 centimeter onto the handle and I think it looks cheap and ghetto. I don't want to sand the whole handle and remove the laser marks and I don't want to have to unwrap the handle everytime it gets any moisture so I thought I better patina The spine. This is just a long winded way of saying I messed up and I'm now looking for the best fix for it. Thanks for the responses. I'm now thinking about tiger striping the blade too. Mr. Becker if you read this, thanks for making such great and affordable knives! I think a bk9 is in the future. :)
 
Oh, one true beavis.........

Thanks for the kind words........ And.......Vinegar should not bother the coating a bit.......Good luck on the rest of it......

Ethan
 
Decided to tiger stripe it. Put some mustard on the spine and it did nothing lol. I used honey mustard since we were out of regular. It didn't do anything to the coating, as promised. It also didn't fill in the stripes, just did the out line. Which is actually pretty cool since from one angle you just see patina and from another angle you see patina and my mirror polish :). I had to do it twice because the first time just looked like a bunch of penises... Anyway thanks for the help and the final nudge to do it. Sory no pics, I don't have a real camera and my phone takes horrible pictures.
 
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