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Loven's my RC patina
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I had used the RC-4 to take down a bunch of Indonesian packing creates and batoning through that hardwood left a bunch of wearmarks in the original coating. Later I just sanded out the rest of the coating with wet/dry paper starting with 220 grit and worked my way up to 800 grit. I purposely left the coating on the tang portion of the choil and tang for its protective effect. I'd rather have rust spots occur where I can see them.
Regarding corrosion. I was using it naked under wet camp conditions for field work for a week. Basically, every day I was out on the lakes doing a bunch of work where I, and the RC-4, would get quite wet. The naked blade would develop a light rust fuzz on it, but it came off with a green scrubby. Unfortunately the green scrubby would wipe off the nascent patina as it was forming as well. This was happening daily until I had the idea to wipe the blade with one of my PJ-cotton balls and that stopped the need for the daily scrubby treatment until the trip was done.
The RC-4 was an awesome performer in the field. The kydex works extremely well in these conditions and this trip really converted me from being a 'leather' guy to a kydex guy. My collegue had a nice custom knife in a leather sheath. After day 3 he had to leave the knife at camp because his leather became soaked are started to get soft on him. He started cutting into the sheath every time he removed the knife.
Funny thing was, he was teasing me about my plastic sheath with the shoestring belt loops when we started the trip. After he saw how my shoestring plastic performed, how tight it sits to the body and how secure the blade snaps in, his teasing tone changed to one of envy!
My little opinel came along for the trip as well. It already has a good patina on its blade and as such did not suffer the same daily light rust fuzz. However, as opinel's are prone to do, the wood swells and the blade gets very tough to open and close. About half way through the trip, the opinel got switched out for the SAK soldier which was in my PSK. I like that sak soldier alot, but the opinel cuts much better.
I decided to hasten the patina with a mustard treatment. We'll see if it gives the desired protective effect on my next field outing.
Regarding corrosion. I was using it naked under wet camp conditions for field work for a week. Basically, every day I was out on the lakes doing a bunch of work where I, and the RC-4, would get quite wet. The naked blade would develop a light rust fuzz on it, but it came off with a green scrubby. Unfortunately the green scrubby would wipe off the nascent patina as it was forming as well. This was happening daily until I had the idea to wipe the blade with one of my PJ-cotton balls and that stopped the need for the daily scrubby treatment until the trip was done.
The RC-4 was an awesome performer in the field. The kydex works extremely well in these conditions and this trip really converted me from being a 'leather' guy to a kydex guy. My collegue had a nice custom knife in a leather sheath. After day 3 he had to leave the knife at camp because his leather became soaked are started to get soft on him. He started cutting into the sheath every time he removed the knife.
Funny thing was, he was teasing me about my plastic sheath with the shoestring belt loops when we started the trip. After he saw how my shoestring plastic performed, how tight it sits to the body and how secure the blade snaps in, his teasing tone changed to one of envy!
My little opinel came along for the trip as well. It already has a good patina on its blade and as such did not suffer the same daily light rust fuzz. However, as opinel's are prone to do, the wood swells and the blade gets very tough to open and close. About half way through the trip, the opinel got switched out for the SAK soldier which was in my PSK. I like that sak soldier alot, but the opinel cuts much better.
I decided to hasten the patina with a mustard treatment. We'll see if it gives the desired protective effect on my next field outing.