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1084Looks good. What steel is this?
I'm not sure being vigorously tossed around in a bunch of rocks helped it.Looks good to me.
Now do something about that horrendous tip (or lack of).![]()
I'm not sure being vigorously tossed around in a bunch of rocks helped it.
Yea it looks pretty similar. If you hadn't have told me I wouldn't have known.Definitely not. That's the problem with DIY stonewashing.
I tend to do my faux-stone wash chemically. Ferric Chloride followed by a Scotchbrite pad looks almost the same (and no tip damage):
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Yea it's blued, I haven't done one with ferric chloride yet, I've tried some other finishes with FC before and it just doesn't seem very tough. You don't have to buy a tumbler if you just wanna try it out, you can put it in pretty much any container and shake it around. You can even put it in a container, tape it up real tight, put it in a backpack or something and put it in the drier on no heat cycle. I've done both, pretty much anything to jostle it around will work.I’d like to see a before picture, it’s a dark color now? Is it blued? Just wondering. They sell stone washers at harbor freight, so I’m curious.