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Giving a knife a black blade?

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guitardemon

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