Darn shiny clip

[redhawk44p]

I was experimenting with ways to hide the shiny clip on my Centofonte. All of the paints I tried wore off too quickly till I tried automotive touch up paint. It takes much longer to wear off and is easy to touch up with the brush in the bottle.

 

[Connor]

Hi redhawk44p,

another thing you could try is:

1. Take off the clip and clean it really well, i.e. wear plastic gloves (!) clean it with dish soap and/or acetone to get rid of ANY grease on the clip.

2. Put the clip into warm Fe(III)Cl for a few minutes. Fe(III)Cl is a chemical used to 'dye' damascus steel.

This will give the clip a darkish black colour and it does not come off easily.

-Connor

 

[FullerH]

If you just want a dull finish, you can take it off and then to a machine shop or automotive rebuilding establishment and have them sand-blast it. That should give it a matte finish, PDQ. A less pretty but quicker and cheaper aternative might very well be using progressively finer grits of sandpaper and then emery paper until you reach a finish that you like. I am using the latter on a project to bring back a badly rusted and pitted sword blade and I then intend to apply them to the cross and to the pommel, both of which a quite bright and really not in character with the blade.

 

[u812]

I have a bead blasted clip on my Military.It is sort of grey and holds up very well.

 

[redhawk44p]

Thanks for the tips. I just want the clip to to as invisible as possible. I use paint that matches my jeans.

 

[Suerte]

I'd like a shiny clip on my Delica. :footinmou I took the finish off of my Dad's blue one before I gave it to him, and I really like the looks of it. Never could get a good polish on it.

 

[glockman99]

The clips on all of my Benchmades have a mirror polish, and you'd be suprised how well they blend in with my faded Levis..