Pathfinder now sporting a patina

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I did the post-trip inspection on the pathfinder after my Lake Erie camp-out. Despite some due dilegence by rubbing wax on the blade before setting out and wiping it off at night and after my return - I still ended up with a few little spots on the blade. Well that is just the beast with tool steel I guess. So I ended up doing what I did with my RC-4 and foced a patina on it.

Rather than a mustard finish, this one received a balsamic vinegar treatment. I soaked a paper towel with balsamic vinegar and wrapped it around the blade. I allowed it to sit for 6 h and this gave it a nice even black finish. This will hopfully keep the rust spots at bay for when I gets its real wet workout on my field course starting next week.

Since it is Canada day, and I don't have pictures of bikini clad, iceberg straddling girls like Doc keeps, I added in my little prop of Canadianana. A little replica birch bark canoe that is so common in the little touristy trader shops around N. Ontario. This one came from Lake Superior Park between Sault Ste. Marie and Wawa.

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KGD,

It looks good. I gotta tell you, I've been coveting that wood handled custom of yours for a while... I hope that doesn't violate the BF Commandments...
 
dude, those knives are HUGE! You could barely fit them in your boat....;)

seriously, love that look. the patina is gorgeous!!!!

Brett
 
mneedham said:
KGD,
It looks good. I gotta tell you, I've been coveting that wood handled custom of yours for a while... I hope that doesn't violate the BF Commandments...
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Last time I checked, the burning bush never wrote 'Though shall not covet thy neighbor's knife....

Anyhow, I've fallen back in love with that Diotte after getting it its own custom sheath from Normark. Funny how a good fitting sheath really makes a knife come to its own doesn't it?
 
I like the knives but I love that lil' canoe.

Did you make that? Would you know where a guy could find some plans?
 
Unfortunately I can't lay claim to making the little canoe. I bought it at a touristy little spot near a provincial park north of Lake Superior. They sell these things by the boat load (pun) and I ended up buying this one a few years back out of nostalgia. I remember getting one every couple years as a kid and we would float them as toys (it ruins them pretty quickly). Anyhow, they are very common in Northern Ontario and sold along other things like oversized brown leather watchbands with canada leaf stamped imprints, the little wooden boats from "Paddle To the Sea" (those ones work much better in the water), moose dropping neglaces and 'Old man in the sea' carvings.

Now that you mention it though - they would be kind of fun to make.
 
That patina is looking pretty nice kgd. How is your wifes kat knife getting along?
Any Patina on it?

Neat pic of the canoe.

Bryan
 
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