First Production Run

Tanker 1/66

Tanker 1/66

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I just scored a Bk17 First Production Run with The Bosses signature on the blade. Unfortunately the finish on the blade is beat up something terrible and the sheath looks like it went thru a chipper. I'm not concerned about the sheath. The FPR is intact and so is the Ethans signature. Soooo my question is... Was the signature laser etched into the blade. I'm gonna have to chemically strip this blade. Its bad!!! But I wanted this knife damaged or not. The Bosses signature is hard to come by and I'm a 17 fan to boot. I'm not concerned about the collectors value being lost with stripping. It wont leave my possession. I dont want to lose the signature. If that is the case I won't strip. How should I proceed?
 
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Pics? pretty sure it's laser etched so if in the very rare occurrence that I'm correct it'll definitely lose the pop it has with a coating..... if there's enough coating left you might be able to chemically etch it deeper
 
Laser etched.

My FPR 16 was Clich'd by Clich before I ever got my hands on it.
I re-stripped and re-patina'd.
Sig is faint now, but still there.
Only extant photos are in the Bucket. I'll snap a new one to imgur tonight.
 
that etch thing was a deal done with that big TN knife store, and "nothing esp rare"... i actually think it's annoying and misleading.
 
Bladite said:
that etch thing was a deal done with that big TN knife store, and "nothing esp rare"... i actually think it's annoying and misleading.
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Thanks Bladite. Even though in this case its a little deflating I've always liked your honest opinion and seemingly endless knowledge base in such matters.
 
Very faint after all that. Can only see it in the right light. But it's still there.

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If possible, if you want to keep the signature, I'd agree with the electro-etch suggestion.
 
tape around the areas you want to etch, so as not to etch the areas where there is no coating left. Vinegar, salt, q-tips, gator clips and an old cell phone charger is all you need.
 
I have one now that I etched only the sig with plans to polish out the FPR etch.
I used PCB FCl but it isn't satisfactory so I'm (eventually) building a DC etch thingy to make it a bit deeper.
 
Nice Job Tanker! That tutorial Granite did is how I go about it also ;). After a few failures I read his tutorial when he mentioned put the positive to ground not the negative. Put the negative to the Q-tip, TA DA ! That's what I was doing wrong :confused:
 
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