Nickel 110 question.

[JAM]

On the nickel bolster 110's, are the bolsters made of nickel through, or are they nickel plated brass?

Basically if I wanted to try this with one :

Would it still be silver or would it just sand through to brass?

 

[sassafrassdogs]

I believe they're Nickel/Silver that's why they weigh more than the brass, to me anyway...

I have never done that, I would think it would stay silver...

There will be someone along shortly to answer your question about sanding them down...

 

[gedlicks]

They are solid nickel.

 

[MT_Pokt]

No brass... It’s solid silver (color) through and through.

Nickel silver is an alloy, not a natural ferrous metal. I think it’s copper, zinc, and nickel.

 

[JAM]

Sweet, thanks!

 

[Haebbie]

Here you find the ingredients of nickel silver:

Haebbie

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nickel_silver

 

[sassafrassdogs]

So Nickel Silver is also called German Silver...Thanks Haebbie...No Silver... 60% Copper, 20% Nickel, 20% Zinc....

 

[Stephen W Huyssoon]

This is good news. I will continue to prefer nickel silver.

 

[Old Hunter]

I'm glad to learn this too - wondered about the nickel bolsters on my Buck Folding Hunter Pro - now I know! OH

 

[BuckShack]

Interesting info here. I prefer nickel silver. Not always, but most of the time. Its easier to care for too.

 

[Makael]

Vorpal called it white brass

 

[sassafrassdogs]

Man, why did you bring him into this??

He called day night and night day....

 

[Makael]

He will be here at the BCCI event.

 

[sassafrassdogs]

The N/S doesn't scratch as easy as brass, but when it does it's harder to get out... 6 of 1, half a dozen of the other...

 

[sassafrassdogs]

He will be here at the BCCI event.

I hear you're having him over for steak super...

He'll call it hamburger though...

 

[jbmonkey]

He will be here at the BCCI event.

say hi for me Sir.

 

[kossetx]

My take, having removed both nickel and brass bolsters by hand is I haven't felt any noticeable difference in hardness. According to the charts, HB hardness is roughly the same on both, depending on alloy make up.

I can vouch that ns is ns, all the way through. I didn't always think that. I have a ns Matco 110 where the engraving cuts often looks like brass.

Pete

 

[DeSotoSky]

Vorpal called it white brass

Seems like we went thru this before. The term white Brass is somtimes loosely applied to the nickel containing alloys but IMO White Brass is a Brass containing more Zinc than Copper. White Brass is brittle. The names and elemental proportions in this family of alloys is huge and terms are not always uniformly applied. For our purposes, White Brass is not the same alloy as the Nickel Silver used in our knives.

 

[sassafrassdogs]

Seems like we went thru this before. The term white Brass is somtimes loosely applied to the nickel containing alloys but IMO White Brass is a Brass containing more Zinc than Copper. White Brass is brittle. The names and elemental proportions in this family of alloys is huge and terms are not always uniformly applied. For our purposes, White Brass is not the same alloy as the Nickel Silver used in our knives.

I think Makael was making a joke about verpil and I picked it up and ran with it...

 

[DeSotoSky]

OH, I'll shuddup and sit back down....