Darkening AEBL

Daniel W

Daniel W

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Good morning been a lurker here for a while. That said let’s toast my first post.

How can I blacken AEBL I had a buddy order a knife and he wants the blade black. I have do it to carbon blades but not stainless any help would be appreciated.
Thanks
Daniel
 
I got my Devon Thomas damascus (which is AEB-L/304) to get pretty dark. I etched, post heat treat, with ferric chloride. I did many soaks totaling nearly 1 hour to get it as dark as I wanted.
 
Take a look at Caswell plating. They have a stainless oxidizing solution I have used on Stainless gun parts before.
 
Thanks for the replies seems powder coating or ceracoat might be the best options
 
navman said:
Take a look at Caswell plating. They have a stainless oxidizing solution I have used on Stainless gun parts before.
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Navman I have heard that caswell coating at hit and miss with some stainless
 
possible. I only used it a few times...then switched to IONBND....
 
I use ferric chloride on my AEBL. You can see the color I get on the bevels of this blade.
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Guess that’s true, I never thought about that Before. I use to send all the titanimum suppressors we made out for PVD DLC but thy where not temp sensitive.
 
andy kloot said:
How long do you etch for? I tried my nitro v for a half hour and got very little colour change
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I have similar results with ferric chloride on AEBL. Soaked for 30 plus minutes with only marginal color darkening. More like a bronzing look really.
 
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