Hickory n steel
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Has anyone ever heard of a chrome plated stainless steel knife blade ? For all intents and purposes the edge behaves and reacts like stainless so I'm confident that it is.
Ok so over a year ago my grandmother gave me an old Chinese copy of the classic imperial Barlow ( according to her she bought it in the early 90's ) And from the get go something about the blade was strange.
It had a hard rust spot that wouldn't wire wheel off the same way as normal steel and just left the surface of the blade looking unusual. The surface of the blade is also resistant to sandpaper.
Then the other day I decided to modify it and subtract the pen blade which I was able to do with relative success. After I sharpened it up I was testing it on an orange to see how well it performed, and well I went inside to use the bathroom and I guess I forgot it in the garage stuck in an orange half.
I discovered it today and there was some black corrosion or potentially patina on the blade, so I wire wheeled it off which was easier this time and noticed something strange.
This was what is not like normal corrosion / pitting , it's like it ate through a layer of something and on the edge at the spine I can see a faint hint of copper on one side.
I took the best picture I could, but my phone wouldn't focus on the knife blade and postimage won't load right now so I'll have to post the picture later.
Ok so over a year ago my grandmother gave me an old Chinese copy of the classic imperial Barlow ( according to her she bought it in the early 90's ) And from the get go something about the blade was strange.
It had a hard rust spot that wouldn't wire wheel off the same way as normal steel and just left the surface of the blade looking unusual. The surface of the blade is also resistant to sandpaper.
Then the other day I decided to modify it and subtract the pen blade which I was able to do with relative success. After I sharpened it up I was testing it on an orange to see how well it performed, and well I went inside to use the bathroom and I guess I forgot it in the garage stuck in an orange half.
I discovered it today and there was some black corrosion or potentially patina on the blade, so I wire wheeled it off which was easier this time and noticed something strange.
This was what is not like normal corrosion / pitting , it's like it ate through a layer of something and on the edge at the spine I can see a faint hint of copper on one side.
I took the best picture I could, but my phone wouldn't focus on the knife blade and postimage won't load right now so I'll have to post the picture later.