Patina

[tiogatires]

Has anyone ever completed a forced patina on a satin Busse? I did some searching but didn't find anything specific to the Busse line. If you were successfully, how did you do it?

 

[oge14]

i tried with a cgfbm that i sand blasted to remove th de-carb. i was using mustard to do this, i left it on for 24 hour's and nothing really happened. toward the grip's where i did not blast rusted a little on the de-carb, but that was it. i'll try and get some pic's up for ya.

 

[oge14]

here are a few pic's of what i was blasting off the blade. this was under the black coating. look close you can see the finish is differnt. i can't find the one's with the mustard right now.

 

[resinguy]

Satin INFI won't take a patina. Some success has been had with stripped CG blades. The surface of the steel under the paint will sometines take a blue.

 

[tiogatires]

Nice, I never thought of sand blasting the coatings off. I guess you could tape off the handles with a few layers of tape and get the whole blade that way.

 

[darkaether]

Nice! I wouldn't have guessed those grooves would come out that uniformly. looks great

 

[RokJok]

INFI is relatively stainless, so isn't a particularly good candidate for a patina.

I tried to patina a Scrapper 5 LE with almost no success. Tried boiling vinegar, which works well on carbon steels like A-2 or 1095, and a several-hours-long phosphoric acid soak that was allowed to dry on the INFI. The vinegar did virtually nothing. The acid yielded very faint staining that doesn't IMHO reach the level of a patina due to its faintness and irregular pattern. Most of the stain was along the edges of some drips.

 

[stjones]

I managed to patina my SARGE 7 with some steak on the weekend. It's very light but stained none the less.

 

[mishman]

Try leaving it in vinegar over night.

 

[resinguy]

I managed to patina my SARGE 7 with some steak on the weekend. It's very light but stained none the less.

Yes, raw or cooked meat can stain INFI.

Try leaving it in vinegar over night.

Is that your result, or a suggestion? Because if boiling vinegar doesn't do it (see above), than soaking is unlikely to.

 

[Gundog JYD#138]

So eat more meat... Sounds like a plan to me!

 

[tiogatires]

+ 1 on eating more meat. The family and I already blew through two deer worth of venison. Looks like a hog hunt is in my future. Gotta restock my freezer!

 

[oge14]

+ 1 on eating more meat. The family and I already blew through two deer worth of venison. Looks like a hog hunt is in my future. Gotta restock my freezer!

so how did your blade fair in the spring?

 

[tiogatires]

so how did your blade fair in the spring?

If you're talking turkey - so far notta.

 

[tjiscooler]

I second the steak. I used a custom shop active duty to cut steak and it got the same look to it.

 

[RobStanley]

Smashed it thru an old gum log...

Not really a patina, but cool marks nonetheless

 

[Garth Reckner]

Nice character marks Rob. Looks good to me.

Garth

 

[Bigfattyt]

I will get some good blue color on satin while cutting meat, BBQ, etc, but it always goes away later, when I am cutting more!