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I do not use a brass or bronze brush or a razor blade, etc, to help get the job done as it can scratch up the decarb, which is a "patina" that I particularly prize in tool appearance and utility (heck, I would pay a little for that finish!). Rather, I bathe 'em until the coating sloughs off easily with a push from a wooden paint stir stick. Stubborn spots come off with a bit of elbow grease using the stir stick, too, as long as the bath had been long enough. I hope you have better luck at some point!
Rusting??? Not at all. The decarb on my strippers has remained constant in appearance through years of use. Well, it can get scraped up through use, but that's it.You don't have MASSIVE rusting problems by leaving the decarb on the blade?
Rusting??? Not at all. The decarb on my strippers has remained constant in appearance through years of use. Well, it can get scraped up through use, but that's it.
Interesting. Why?
I’ve got stripped SR101, bare A2, D2, M2, O1, W1 (or is that W2?), even 1095 that I have no rust problems with, all treated exactly the same, and even stored in the same location as that DS6. The only ones I’ve had any problem with are that DS6 and a SAR5. Both of which exhibited the same sort of spotty rusting where I thought I had it bare but some decarb remained. I had sanded the SAR5 til it had a noticeably thinner blade, and especially thinner behind the edge. I ended up sending it to a guy on the board here that had offered to bead blast it for me. After that, I’ve yet to oil it, and no rust.
Now I’m thinking I need to strip another INFI, leave the full layer of decarb, and see what happens. I can fully believe that the undisturbed layer of decarb could protect the INFI, and not rust. I forget what the chemical composition of the decarb is, but it’s here on the board somewhere.
I'm neither a chemist nor metallurgist, but I have a friend named Google... But I am no chemist! Given that decarb can't be metal (right?), then it makes no sense to me that IT rusts. I have no theory on why remnants of it would cause rusting on metal with which it has contact, though. ...
This makes perfect sense based on the above. I have read where some users say that after the initial edge is removed when the knife is first resharpened, that performance is better - I suppose this makes sense also.IMO....that steel will perform and look better after that decarb layer is sanded off. ...
I’m gonna do the same. I picked up a Boss Jack CG. I started the etching process and will strip it next. I intend to leave the decarb and see what happens. I’ll start a thread about it with pics. Just a heads up Dogboye. Keep an eye out for it. Maybe Sunday night.Next blade I strip, I’m leaving it. We’ll see what happens. Bookmarking this thread so I can zombie-fi it whenever that happens (might be a while).![]()