So I just put a patina on my bk-16, but I didn't have a chance to sand it first. It came out like you see after 5 multi hour mustard treatments and 3 rounds of lemon juice and vinegar over a two day span. My questions are what stripper tends to worth the best for getting off the kind of coating the Becker knives have, and also do you think this patina will be suffiecient to protect the blade in the meantime until my micarta scales come in at which point I will sand and reapply the patina.
