/ Register

  • Paid Subscribers don't see ads!

  1. Week 43of the BladeForums.com Year of Giveaways is live! Enter to win a Spyderco C243PBK Edela + Misc Prize Pack

    Click here to enter the drawing for your chance to win a Spyderco Endela + Misc Prize Pack , Bladeforums.com swag or memberships!     Be sure to read the rules before entering, and help us decide next week's giveaway by hitting the poll in that thread!

    Entries will close at 11:59PM Saturday, Oct 26 ; winners will be drawn on Sunday @ 5pm on our Youtube Channel: TheRealBladeForums. Bonus prizes will be given during the livestream!


    Questions? Comments? Post in the discussion thread here
  2. Week 42 drawing for the BladeForums.com 20th Anniversary Year of Giveaways live stream, going on from 5-6PM eastern!!
    Tune in to our YouTube Channel, http://www.youtube.com/TheRealBladeforums, we'll be drawing winners for BladeForums.com merchandise & the grand prize:
    an Kizer Vanguard V4516A1 Domin Folding Knife & Ka-Bar Dozier Folding Hunter , along with BladeForums branded gear!

    Additional prize(s) will be awarded to people in the livestream chat, so watch for your chance to win bonus prize(s)
Week 43 - Endela Giveaway Drawing - Kizer Domin

Patina on a Tenacious

Discussion in 'Spyderco' started by styx, Mar 30, 2011.

  1. Mar 30, 2011 #1
    styx

    styx

    720
    Apr 21, 2010
    Yesterday I got an interesting idea about putting a patina on some of the work horse knives while cleaning them. Upon closer inspection most of the carbon steel fixed blade ones are not good for anything any more simply because they have been broken or they will break soon enough.
    But the Tenacious is another story. So I'm wondering can I put a patina on it? And what are your suggestions in trying to do it?
     
  2. Mar 30, 2011 #2
    Orion's Belt

    Orion's Belt

    1,554
    Mar 15, 2010
    Being a stainless, 8Cr13MoV isn't likely to take a patina. You can try by cutting up some fruits and not wiping it off right away. But, I'm not sure that will do much.
     
  3. Mar 30, 2011 #3
    pwet

    pwet

    1,134
    Feb 13, 2009
    won't do anything. you can darken stainless steel to some extent, i've done it with zdp. but you'll either neep some PCB etchant (ferric chloride) or a very strong acid. ferric chloride being the easier, less harmfull, but still...
     
  4. Mar 30, 2011 #4
    s_f

    s_f

    239
    Nov 17, 2009
    You could try battery acid (the stuff used in car batteries) - it's diluted H2SO4 (sulfuric acid). 35-70% should work quite good but you'll probably find only 25-30% (at hardware stores, garages, ...).
     
  5. Mar 30, 2011 #5
    styx

    styx

    720
    Apr 21, 2010
    Thanks for the suggestions guys. I'll give it a shot and if anything comes out form it, I'll put the pics up
     
  6. Apr 1, 2011 #6
    yablanowitz

    yablanowitz

    8,204
    Apr 14, 2006
    It's your time and your money, but you're wasting both. 8Cr13MoV is very stain resistant. I dropped a Byrd Crossbill in my girlfriend's back yard where it got watered almost every day. She found it after two months and all it had were a few spots of surface rust that wiped off with an oily rag.
     

Share This Page