Microtech's Mired Stonewashed Finish.

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Liam021

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Dose anyone know How Microtech dose this finish?

http://instagram.com/p/duzAlKQg93/
http://instagram.com/p/dFReTJwg9J/

I was thinking maybe they mirror polish the blade then throw it into a tumbler for like 5 minuets and then use a high grit sandpaper and somewhat re-mirror polish it. Im really not sure, I was wondering if anyone knows how to do this. I really want to try it, I think it looks beautiful but gives it more of a jeweled rough "worker" stonewash.
 
I do a very similar finish. After heat treat I use woven fiber belts starting coarse and ending with a 600 grit rouge felt belt. Then the blade goes in a 18lb vibratory tumbler with 3/8" triangular ceramic media and stainless 440c ball bearings. 20 minutes later you get a sparkly bright stone wash.

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Very cool, thanks for the pictures and tip Will. Do you think something like this "Sparkling" or "Mirrored" stonewash would be possible without a vibratory tumbler? I would be doing it by hand probably unless there is some other way.
 
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My guess is that it should work. When I stonewashed by hand it generally came out identical to most production stonewashes but it was obviously a much less effcient method. I found that plastic coffe "cans" worked pretty well and could fit just about everything I need to stonewash.
 
In my experience the peppery light scratch pattern is best in a tumbler. Hand tossing a blade is very similar but with longer deeper scratches.
 
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