Patina Your RAT?

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I was wondering if anyone has a patina on their RAT. If so, did you do it naturally with use or on purpose with something acidic? I'd love to see a few pics and hear about how you did it!

Thanks,
Josh
 
Mustard :D
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Awesome, looks good!

Now does it make the blade pretty much immune to the "bad" rust or just more resistant?
 
I might try using something like a shoe string coated in mustard to give it some sort of pattern. Not sure if I want to make it look that forced though. Time will tell.
 
I like using mustard. I recently did the bottom knife but don't have pics. I prefer to do tiger stripes. The one I just did kind of looks like sea weed.
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Edit: The bottom one has a natural patina from using it to cut up food in the kitchen to give you an idea of what that looks like. It's an old pic so I didn't really know exactly the stage that blade was in at the time. I'll redo patinas from time to time when I get bored. It's a fun project.
 
Mustard looks great. I have yet to see my patina'd 1050 AG Russell Sting rust on me and it's been a month and a half since I patina'd it.
 
I wrapped paracord around the blade of my RTAK II (each wrap touching the next), then soaked in vinegar, let dry, and repeated 3 times before taking off the cord and using 0000 steel wool to remove the corrosion build-up.

Came away with a very distinct, symetrical light/dark stripe pattern since the cord held the vinegar against the blade much longer than the tiny spaces where the cord wasn't touching...

will do the same thing to my RC-4 once the coating is completely worn off
 
I'm starting to get a nice patina on my RC-4. Mine is from normal use though. Use it for food prep and it will start to patina pretty quickly.

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Mine very quickly turned a blotchy gray after I stripped it. It's a bit darker than this now. Haven't seen a spot of surface rust and I use it for food quite a bit.

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white vinegar will work too.

I like 1 part ferric chloride, 2 parts water mix for a more even gray color.
neutralise with baking soda and water!!!!!
 
Here is my Izula after spending a night in apple vinegar. It gave a nice, almost even patina.

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Stupid question inbouned. There may already be a thread in here on the "how to" process, but do u just take your IZULA and drop it in a bath of viniger, or just cover it in mustard, or do u have to strip it first. and how does this give the knife better rust resistant properties than the given coat. One would think doing this would make it rust not stop rust? I am confused, any help.:confused:
 
You can also stick it in an apple, and check it every couple of hours until you see what you like. This would only work on the smaller blades, though, unless you got creative. But it works well and puts on a nice patina.
 
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