Checked Your Hydrogen Peroxide bluing yet?

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John Andrews

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I wonder what results you fellers had with your experiments? I just checked the knife in my two week old batch with the same knife. I placed some pure copper in the newer batch and it seemed to speed things up. Where I had thinned the bluing with a Brillo pad earlier, it was redone. You could not tell where I gave it the business with the pad, and I had really worked it hard with the pad. I wonder if this coating/bluing will be rustproof, seeing as how it is a reaction with copper.
 
Knife Knut, I just went and checked my old folder that has been soaking in the stuff. ZOW! The antler scales turned blue and green,but look real good! The 3 blades were covered with a layer of black gunk that when cleaned off, left pretty nice bluing on the blades. There was a 1/4" of brown gunk covering the knife that slowed the bluing process. The liners are bright copper, as well as the bolsters. The bolsters were nickel plated copper.Apparently, the hp stripped the plating off. The liners before being placed in the liquid looked like brass liners,but is it reasonable to assume the liners were brass plated copper? I don't know if some old folders were sometimes made this way, or what the reasoning would be. I don't know the results of any other fellers trying this. Some of the other Forum members were going to try it. I just tossed the knife in a container with some lemon juice and liquid soap to clean it up and to see how durable the bluing is. The stuff should tell us if the finish on the blades is just a patina, I beleive. Edited to add, I just pulled the knife out of the lemon juice and cleaned it up. The blades are dark blue, almost black, and the finish is really etched into the steel.
 
John if Kim is far enough along and doing well for you to come the 24th, bring this along too! I'd like to see what you've come up with.
 
Yes guys, would like to hear the results.

After re-reading the first posts, I need to know how and what worked (especially interested in the Mother-inlaw experiment).

I am assuming that copper or brass is needed to help it out, I have a blade in the works that I think would look good with a dark blue finish and I don't like playing with or having a lot of nasty chemicals around.

Thanks for any info.
 
Dave, will do! Out of curiousity, I also had a 1997 dime in the soup, and it disolved part of the (silver?) off the dime, or else plated it with copper. I used a chunk of pure copper in the hp. Pollock, I need to build a larger container to include my mother-in-law. I would tell everyone it is a big jar of pickeled snake.
 
I missed the original start of this. What is the procedure for this HP bluing?

Thanks,

Rob
 
Rob, I put an old folder in some hydrogen peroxide to clean it up, and let it sit for a few weeks. The carbon steel blades blued a rich, almost black bluing. In the mix was some copper that caused a chemical reaction that blued the steel. Cheap blue job, safer chemicals than hot bluing salts... .IG, I bet it would really help!
 
I.G,
Thanks, I was hoping for a brighter blue than the blue/black of most solutions, we'll see. I can always try it first and if I don't like it, I'll give you a call. check your email for another question.
 
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