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PeteG1027

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Alright, I hope I'm in the right forumn. I have an extra BK-2, and no,, I'm not giving it to anyone :jerkit:.. After being a member here for approx a year, I want to try my hand at some modifications. I basically just want to get rid of the coating on my BK-2 blade and make it nice and Shiney.. Any opinions on how to go about doing this? I don't want to scratch up the blade, so was wondering if there was some solution that would take off the black protectant without using sandpaper or anything that will scratch it.Sorry about the jerk Icon, don't mean to offend anyone.. Thanks All, Pete G
 
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Go to Wal Mart or the nearest drug store and get some paint stripper, CitriStrip seems to be good. The stuff I use is called Flux, some industrial grade paint stripper. But I don't think you can get that in the USA.

Wear safety glasses, chem-resistant nitrile gloves and a respirator. Go outside. seriously. You don't want that stuff in your kitchen. Using a spatula of some sort, apply a thin coat of stripper to the knife. I recommend leaving the coating on the tang for added rust protection under the handles. Once you've coated the blade with stripper gel, let it sit for around 30 minutes. The paint on the blade should look wrinkled now. Use a razor blade or something similar to scrape off the coating, rinse with cold water to neutralize the stripper. Clean it all up with a soft wire brush (brass works good). Polish lightly with some 0000 steel wool. Enjoy.

I will make a video on that and upload it to youtube or something. Give me a month or so.

take care

maethor
 
asshole :) :) :) oh wait, didn't mean to offend you there ;)

just search the forum hear for strippers, i mean "stripping". plenty of tutorials and exact methods and chemicals used. short form: paint stripper of choice, and some elbow grease.

post pictures ;) jerk :>
 
Bladite said:
asshole :) :) :) oh wait, didn't mean to offend you there ;)

I deserved that, nice response. I really didn't mean to offend, It's was just my moronic way of trying to be funny. Happy Easter. Thanks Maethor, I have to go to wal mart tonight anyway's, I'll pick some up. Sounds fairly easy to do, in the garage of course. I'll post on how it came out later on. Thanks Again
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I use Jasco Paint stripper on my blades. Its evil, evil stuff, but it works in about 10 min. You will have to sand, if you want shiney. Much sanding me thinks. I have glossed a BK2 of mine, and once I had it stripped, I sanded it with 300gt w/d paper, then 600gt, then 1200gt. Finally, 0000 steel wool. Finally, the buffing wheel with a high speed polishing compound, similar to jewlers rouge. The bad part, shiney don't last, so, now, it sports a nasty looking patina :D.

Good luck, and let us know how you do, we would love to see pics.

Moose
 
Flexxx, you are the Man, :)Thanks for offering to do it for me!! When can I expect it back?? Send me your info, and I'll mail it out first thing.. While you at it,, throw (donate) some nice Micarta Handles on it also.............
 
PeteG1027 said:
Bladite said:
asshole :) :) :) oh wait, didn't mean to offend you there ;)

I deserved that, nice response. I really didn't mean to offend, It's was just my moronic way of trying to be funny. Happy Easter. Thanks Maethor, I have to go to wal mart tonight anyway's, I'll pick some up. Sounds fairly easy to do, in the garage of course. I'll post on how it came out later on. Thanks Again
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likewise. we're sassy here :)
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TheLastDaze said:
Bladite said:
sassy is a little better then an infraction, don't you think...?? Perhaps the Becker forum mods didn't get the memo, but I did (because he said):D... Spark specifically said jerk-it smiley's are restricted and to be used in whine and cheese only..

fwiw thought I'd through that out there because I'm a sassy pants...:D
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well, spark should enable them only for whine and cheese ;) ;) ;)

okay, so fine, edit the jerkit out ;)

going to buy some beef jerky later :) and some pemmican too.
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Bladite said:
just search the forum hear for strippers, i mean "stripping". plenty of tutorials and exact methods and chemicals used. short form: paint stripper of choice, and some elbow grease.
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Google's search results for strippers and stripping yielded far more entertaining results than the expected results on BF.
 
Jasco "speedomatic" or any methylene chloride based stripper. Kleenstrip and Krudcutter also you methylene chloride. It'll say "poison" and have the skull and crossbones. shit works fast, don't get it on your skin. use in a well ventilated area, brush on in one direction only. thick gloves are a must. that's if you wanna do it fast. otherwie use citrus strip.
 
The advice on keeping yourself wrapped up in a hazmat suit when using harsh strippers is probably prudent advice. However, CitrisStrip is nowhere near as caustic as has been alleged. This is my BK9 in the process of using CitrisStrip:

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That's my kitchen counter with our morning coffee cups and breakfast dishes just inches away. The pan is my wife's roasting pan, which she cooked a nice juicy pot roast in the next night for company from out of town. No one got sick, no bleeding ulcers or exploding hemorrhoids, at least none that weren't there before, :eek: and no visible damage at all to the pan itself. There was just a hint of orange smell in the air, but only if you stood right by the pan as the knife was soaking in the gel. Doesn't burn your nostrils. Doesn't even irritate them at all. I did wear chemical handling gloves when handling the covered blade, but that was as much just to keep the gooey mess off my hands as it was to protect them from harm, which I don't really think CitrisStrip will cause to begin with.

Sounds like CitirsStrip takes a little longer than the other suggestions to work, but I just soaked both sides of my knife about an hour each I guess. I really don't think I had it in there for more than two hours total, and Hell, I don't know, it may have been ready to scrape clean long before that.

I'm not saying don't be cautious with it if that's what you end up using, but don't be all scared of it either. CitrisStrip is really a rather mild substance.

Blues
 
Bladite said:
asshole :) :) :) oh wait, didn't mean to offend you there ;)

just search the forum hear for strippers, i mean "stripping". plenty of tutorials and exact methods and chemicals used. short form: paint stripper of choice, and some elbow grease.


post pictures ;) jerk :>
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ROFL! Ok - funniest response I've seen in a while. :D

To the OP - the CitriStrip stuff works fine but I found I needed to leave it on my knife LOTS longer than the 30-60 minutes many seem to get away with. I let my BK11 soak in it for many hours before the coating finally surrendered.

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From what a ton of those different threads have said, citristrip works very well. Leave it on for an hour or seven, then scrape off the gunk. Wear gloves. Don't eat. Pretty simple from what everyone has posted.
 
Yeah it's a trade off, Buy the safer stuff that's not likely to burn your skin or have toxic fumes but pay more in terms of dollars but time. I've used those quite a bit. Gloves not really necessary.

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get the products which are much more toxic to breathe and they can burn your skin (done it)but get much faster results and usually these are cheaper to purchase. Wear gloves for sure, thick ones. You can start seeing results in as fast as 5 min depending on what your stripping.
 
German home improvement stores don't offer that first alternative, Fal'er. We only have the highly toxic, 3-minute, eye-eating radioactive waste stuff. But when you buy one can of that stuff you can strip everything, it even devours rubber and plastic.
 
Thanks to all who posted. I'm on my way now to get what's needed. I'm thinking about coating it tonight, leaving it on overnight, then getting at it tomorrow. . If I can ever figure out how to post pic's,, I'll try to photo the process and result. Thanks Again, Pete G
 
Get a flickr account, you can log in with your google or facebook ID and password. then just right click on the picture, select "copy image address", click on the little frame with tree inside over the text field where you enter your reply. paste your image address in there and you're good to go.
 
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