LOOK what my friend does to the Battle Rat!

[Santi]

It's a home-brew satin!
Pretty cool, eh?

 

[Cutshaw]

Wow! That looks fantastic! You gotta tell us how he got that look!

:thumbup:

 

[leatherman]

Holy Cow! Thats nice! Your friend has some talent!

 

[Troy H]

That looks fantastic!!

Beautiful work!

 

[Devilki]

Yehhh.... awesome work!!

 

[G19G26]

SUPER Kudos to your friend. I've got a Bandicoot that's dying for that same treatment.

Please have him post how he got this great finish or what his address is so we can get some blades to him for the work. :thumbup:

 

[Stockman]

Just started this project on my CT, bit more work to go, but its starting to take shape.
Was quite surprised at how nice the blade was under the coating, and the temper line looks sweet.

 

[Cutshaw]

Wow, Stockman! That's looking great! Can you give us instructions on how you did that?

Thx

 

[Stockman]

So far all I've done is hand sanded with 600 grit wet and dry to remove the coating, then 1200 grit to buff it up. The steel under the coating is not as rough as I thought it would be. After the 1200 grit sand, their is a real polished look and the temper line is pronounced.
All up, has taken about 4 hours of hand sanding.

 

[Cutshaw]

Did you tape the parts of the blade you wanted to leave the finish on? No chemicals like nail polish remover?

Looking good...

 

[Dick]

Hi all ;

I was the one that tried variuos surface treatments on Rats.


First I did tried this... and I didn't like it. ( too shiny and the blade was very wavy not well flat which is the nature of factory coated knife , I guest )

and then I made Satin Finish just like the above.
Somehow I still do not like it as it was too reflective and too shiny.
It does not have the feel of Tactical nor Heavy Duty Knife as it should be.
Then I redo tit again ... (Please see the reflct of Falkniven which is the same as my first result)

How I got to this point where I reduce the reflective from the first finishing ?

The answer is I sandblasted it with Aluminum Oxide then I got darker surface knife in return . The new surface was no longer reflective .


In conclusion the followings are processes I did to the knife Zit is quite complicate and require special equipment :

1. Remove paint by Blast Cleaning ( can be done by Chemical )

2. Reform the surface of the knive because it was very wavy and lots of scratches on the knife material where perhaps the manufacturer did not see the neccessity to polish as it was going to be coated with thick paint

3. Using Sand Belt to regrinding the blade into shape and at the same time getting the Satin Finish result

4. Go back to Blasting Machine to come out with darker and non reflective surface.

5. Scoth Brite touch up for the Satin Finish look again without reflective surface. (hand polish)

Hope this help .

 

[MVF]

Stockman that is BEAUTIFUL!! Does the line where the coating starts look solid like it won't chip or peel? Can water get under it? That just looks so awesome! Congrats on a real one of a kind- at least for as long as it takes some of the others to copy!

 

[Stockman]

MVF - Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. The coating is incredibly hard to remove ( especially by hand ) and the part that is left, the top part of the sabre grind will not get much abrasion. I also removed the coating on the spine so battening wont chip it off.
For me, the beauty lies when putting this fella to work on the farm. It is one tough SOB that can take as much punishment that I can throw it's way.

 

[wetdog1911]

Stockman
Really nice work! I may give this a shot, because where the coating is missing from my 3YO is basicly where you removed yours.

Again, nice work!

You Aussies aren't much for safe queens are you? I admire that.

Rob