Giving a knife a black blade?

[guitardemon]

I am making one of the knife kits knives, and I was thinking about possibly giving the knife a black blade, does anybody know how I would go about accomplishing this?

 

[phelanpain]

Well maybe someone here experienced with gunkote can give there two cents on that product. http://www.kgcoatings.com/gunkote.html

 

[Keith Montgomery]

You can get kits to do your own Parkerizing. To get a black blade you would have to use the magnesium phosphate solution. The zinc phosphate solution will give you a grey blade. Parkerizing can not be done to stainless steel or steel with high quantities of nickel.

 

[Tanguay Custom Knives]

If its tool steel (probably not), but if it is try a black oxide kit from Caswell. Works great. Come to think of it I think they have a different kit for stainless too.
Scott

 

[Dan Pierson]

You could also try rust bluing the blade. There have been some threads here about this fairly recently but no one has posted about doing it to a blade.

Dan Pierson (who's thinking about trying it)

 

[guitardemon]

The Steel is AUS8. What would you guys reccomend to use on this? Parkerizing, gun kote or somthing else?

 

[gratewhitehuntr]

Rattle can!!! ; )
Easy as hell to touch up too!!


To hell with everyone who doesn't agree with me!

 

[Keith Montgomery]

Parkerizing won't work on AUS8. You might want to try what Scott recommended and give the Caswell stainless steel blackener a go. The only problem is that the the Caswell products come in large amounts, so you will get enough to do a heck of a lot of knives.