EXTREMELY rusted knife fix?

[teacher]

Hi amweenie -

I might offer that your boyfriend may like the knife with it's current patina.

Many people, especially ones on this forum, go to great lengths to produce a lovely aged patina like the one on your boyfriends knife.

Only if you are certain that he would prefer the knife cleaned up and buffed would I do anything to the knife.

I admire your willingness to get on here and ask questions - you are quite a good girlfriend!

I might suggest you go pick out a knife that can be from you to him and start a new tradition / heirloom for him.

best regards -

mqqn

Amanda - I would recommend that you leave this knive just like it is. Your boyfriend is very aware of the way it looks and it is something that binds him with his father. My dad gave me a knife years ago and although it is not worth a lot of money to most people it is PRICELESS to me and I would not want anyone to refinish or do something to it. It is a wonderful touching gesture you want to do for him.....it says alot about you.

I suggest that you purchase him a nice folding pocket knife so that he has something special from you.

Just my $0.02 worth....

Randy

+2

And to add to that thought... Let's say you were to buy an antique, any antique or collectible... Any knowledgeable person about such things will tell you not to alter it's condition, but to leave it, exactly as you found... In many cases, this will even include not repairing the item... If you apply this logic to his knife...

Though, you are a kind woman, and it is wonderful thing you want to do.

But, for reasons that you had not considered yet, don't.

Marion

I wouldn't do a thing to that knife.

I agree, Sword and Shield. OA. I concur, leave the blade alone. Wonderful gesture, but definitely leave it alone.

Amanda,

+1 to all the above.

Please..... don't do anything to that knife....
It is a wonderful thought on your part.....

BUT, I am 99.9999 % sure it would be a terrible mistake!!!

Some/most of us men can be very particular about things like this....... and your boyfriend is probably not not a whole lot different.....
Just another truthful thought......

Good luck.........

 

[Infi-del]

I'd leave it alone. It'd be like if his dad left him his jet black 57 chevy and someone had it painted red. Might look awesome. But it wouldn't be the way it was when Dad was around. Some of that was formed when he and his father used the knife. A patina is a knife's memory in a way. Each scratch, every mark, each dull spot in it's finish, was a fishing trip, or camping trip, or memory of old times. Blades have a way of recording time in their patina.

Unless you've heard him say... "Man I wished there was a way to clean this thing up and get it looking new again"... I'd leave it be.

 

[keith956]

I use muratic acid you can get from a hardware store wear old clothes you don't want, goggles gloves. Wipe the blade using a clothe or paper towel, let the acid sit for 10 to 15 seconds wash of the acidby dunking it in water DO NOT SPRAY IT WITH A WATER HOSE, why? you could end up with acid residue every where. dry blade and immediately wipe any type oil I prefer 3 in 1 oil. PUT ACID UP WHERE A CHILD CANNOT REACH IT!!!!!!!!

 

[Loosearrow]

Let the knife be. You might consider a nice sheath.

 

[Obsessed with Edges]

I'm betting whatever the OP decided to do, it's already been done. This thread is a year and a half old (from Feb of last year).