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Good lookin dog jonny!Cleo's pretty mischievous too!
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I use citri strip, to strip mine. They were out of the spray can so I grabbed the jug the other day:
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Nice bk9!
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Thanks. I used Kleen Strip on this one. The coating basically peeled off the blade!
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Don’t know how I missed this thread, but glad I found it.
One of the better threads I’ve seen in awhile.
One of the better threads I’ve seen in awhile.
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That's a good looking dog. Knives ain't bad either.
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Look at the this wonderful fixed blade strip down.
Do you like the Kleen Strip over Citristrip after using both?
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Kleen Strip is faster in my experience and I didn’t even have to do a lot of scraping. I scraped a good bit using Citri strip.
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I find citri strip works best if you warm the blade or citristrip. Then it peels off like a street racer in an albertsons parking lot in fort worth texas.
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I'll have to try that. I know it seemed to work better in warmer weather so that makes sense.
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Maybe a week ago I stripped a busse, the first side I applied citri strip and let it sit for maybe 15min and started scraping. Was tough to scrape the coating off. Applied more citri strip and repeated. Side 2 I pointed a space heater at the blade with citri strip applied. Waited maybe 10min and the coating came right off with no effort. Heat definitely helps.
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Good to know ... I have another BK15 I want to strip sometime soon.
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I love fixed blades probably twice as much as folders.
The above is most of the uncoated carbon steel in the house. Some of these belong to my wife and son. Got them all together for a mass application of drying oil (pure Tung oil mixed with pure orange solvent) to blades and natural handles. Will be writing it up soon in the maintenance section but I’m liking the results so far…
(The Swamp Rat Desert Storm Fighter on the lower left has a coated blade but the spine and perimeter of the handle are uncoated because I enlarged the quillion/guard. This removed the coating in that area so I removed the rest around the perimeter for aesthetics…)
Edit to add: I’m also extremely excited to soon be adding this Siegle Chopper/Fighter to the uncoated carbon steel stable. Should arrive on Friday!
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Some good looking blades! I like hawks as well.