Bought my first real knife, need advise.

[Flieger]

Hello out there.
I bought my first knife since Boy Scouts and I love it. I bought a Benchmade Model 690 with wood and carbon fiber handles, plain edge satin blade, and blue anodized liners. I also picked up some tuff-glide for protection and a Spyderco Sharpmaker for upkeep. My problem is that I hate the blue liners. I mean the knife is beautiful except when your eye catches that blue color. Is there anyway to take off the blue color? I have plenty of semichome polish,polishing cloth, for caring for my pilot watches(my other hobby).

PS- I also saw a knife with jeweled(?) liners. How do you make liners look like that? can it be done at home or do you need special machinery?

 

[ZENGHOST]

First off, welcome to the forums. As for how to get the anodizing off, you could possibly use some polish, but it would probably take a lot of work (don't really know since I've never owned anything that was anodized). For the jewelling of the liners, I don't really know how it's done either (gee, I'm just chock full of useful information, aren't I? ), but I sent mine to http://web.tampabay.rr.com/dbrunne2/bancust.htm to have David jewel the liners. Actually I sent it in for a bunch of other stuff, and just decided to add the jewelling after David suggested it. So you might want to check his site out.

-Z

 

[Architect]

The blue color is simply anodizing is should only be a mil or two thick. Any abrasive technique will knock the anodizing off in short order, as you are essentially removing the metal that has been anodized.

Don't know how the jeweling is done myself, but send to to the link and having it jewelled will likely remove the anodizing as well.

I personally get bronze/gold anodizing when I have a choice.

 

[Flieger]

Thanks for the help guys. I didn't know I'd get answers so quick. I used semichrome polish on 00000 steel wool and then on soft felt and it worked marvelously. The liners are now a polished but grey color. Much more in tune with the rest on the knife. Again thank you for the guidance.