Marine Fighting Knife Finish

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CAman

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I have a Camillus Marine Fighting Knife with a leather sheath. Great knife for the money. I can abuse it and then bring it back to looking like new. There are only two problems. 1). It came out of the box very dull. It took a gew minutes to get it sharp. It gets shaving sharp and is easy to touch up, though. 2) The second, and bigger problems is that the finish is wearing off. A more durable finish should be much more useful against corrosion. Can you use epoxy instead of the parkerizing to make the knife more weather resistent? Thank you for your consideration.
CAman
 
CAman,

1) Knife should not have been "dull". Sorry if one did get past QC. However the knife is still built to MILSPEC & does not call for the burr to be polished off after sharpening.
It does not surprise me that you could easily improve over the sharpness out of the box.

2) The parkerizing is what is called for in the MILSPEC. It never looks pretty but does do a reasonable job of protecting the blade against corrosion.
Over the years we have attempted to make several "civilian versions" to sell. Every time we tried, most people ignored the "improvements" & kept buying the MILSPEC version.

I don't mean to avoid your questions by hiding behind the MILSPEC book, I just think most people perceive it as the "real thing".
We have improved several aspects of the knife over the years (including the heat treatments), but none of these changes would have required rewriting the MILSPEC!

Thanks for the comments,
Phil Gibbs
 
Can't lay my hands on it, now.....but Tom Williams sent me a photocopy of a page from an old catalog in response to a post here.
One of the knives pictured looked like a civvie FUK (hope I got that right)....I figure there might be a market for that one, now. The market has changed immensely in recent years.....and it looked great. What was the steel ?
BTW, the cattle dog was from the 80s, I think

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BrianWE

I had no shoes and wept...until I met a man who had no feet. Cheapest pair of shoes I ever bought.
 
All coatings wear off. It's possible to renew parkerizing at home but I would use cold blue instead. You can touch that up in just a minute every time it starts to show wear. I've had better results with Formula 44/40 than any of the other cold blues ... they should pay me a royalty for all the times I've recommended it on the net.


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-Cougar Allen :{)
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I've had numerous Camillus fighting/utilities over the years with parkerizing. I'd like to remove the parkerizing on one and blue it instead. Any thoughts on how to remove the parkerizing (I'm not a knifemaker!). Thanks.

Bruce Woodbury
 
Fine steel wool or Scotchbrite or 400 grit sandpaper will do it easily. Using a Dremel will not put you in the running for the coveted Stupidest Use of a Dremel for something that could be done faster and easier with hand tools award ... the competition for that award is so fierce these days you have to be really creatively stupid to have any chance at all....


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-Cougar Allen :{)
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CA, I tried to use my wife's Dremel to remove the old grout in our bathroom, should have used an ax!

Thanks for the tip, I'll try your suggestions.

Bruce Woodbury
 
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