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G III

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Hi all!

I noticed when I stripped my BK9, that the steel itself underneath has an interesting pattern to it, almost appearing galvanized. Anybody else find this on the blades of their beckers? Only my 9 has looked like this under the epoxy.

I'm also curious as to what caused it!

Sorry about the poor picture quality, it was quite tough to capture the effect on camera, hopefully this does the trick!

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If the pic doesn't fit, here's the URL http://imgur.com/pAR45ak

Forgive the partial deramp, I wanted it gone, but don't have the means to finish it perfectly yet.

Just figured I'd share, as I think it looks super neat in person, and wasn't sure if it was common. A small followup question would be; on the unground portion of the blade (bk17 too), are the nicks in the flats from blade blanks banging against each other, or a byproduct of some manufacturing process?

Thanks everyone!
 
I believe that the Becker knives use flat rolled stock, and they don't do any finishing on the "flat" portions. They mearly grind the grinds, and then coat it/sharpen it up. So I'm assuming the small divots/dents are from the roll process, but it could very well be from other blanks banging into each other or something like that.

My BK9 is the same, as is the BK2 that I have. My other Beckers still have the coating on, so I'm not sure.
 
Thanks for the responses guys! It is interesting that it occurs equally on the ground part, and the unground. Does anyone know what causes it?

It does look almost like stonewash, I love it.
 
It's just natural patina. All the Beckers have it, and the texturing is from cold rolling the steel. I'm pretty sure all Kabars are made the same way. Of course it looks cool. That's why they have clear coat now. [emoji106][emoji3]
 
My 10 looks like that. Haint striped my 9 yet

Just looks like
small divots/dents are from the roll process, but it could very well be from other blanks banging into each other or something like that.
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Yeah, I figured the dents were either from the steel stock or blade on blade action.

I don't think the pattern is patina, however. I've never seen steel take a reflective patina, which this is-reflective. I could be wrong. It should be noted this blade has a mustard patina, and that the marks were present beforehand. I wonder if they're from HT?
 
It's possible that they tumble them lightly before coating them so the coating will stick better.
 
G III said:
Yeah, I figured the dents were either from the steel stock or blade on blade action.

I don't think the pattern is patina, however. I've never seen steel take a reflective patina, which this is-reflective. I could be wrong. It should be noted this blade has a mustard patina, and that the marks were present beforehand. I wonder if they're from HT?
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I was able to put a somewhat reflective patina on my carbon Opinel by first sanding it with progressively higher grit sandpaper going up to about 3000 grit and then soaking it in lemon juice for a few hours. It was dark, but it still reflected, kind of like the paint on a black car.
 
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