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just stripped my eskabar, and trying to figure out what to do for a patina, i have it sitting in a potato to get a base coat, but cant decide on what to use for the pattern (i do realize that the potato will leave a pattern but i always like to overkill on this kinda thing XD)
 
A good one that someone told me and that I tried also with great results is wetting a paper towel with Worcestershire sauce and wrapping the blade with it, gives a pretty cool pattern almost looks like a crazy camo with little dots or something.
 
try leaving it in a grapefruit, this is what one did to mine
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too bad we dont have any laying around :/ that sounds cool.
but you did just give me an idea on maybe BBQ sauce....... or A1 steak sauce.... i think we have various salad dressings that might work too.... maybe ill mix it all together and see what i get XD

edit: and the Grape fruit one still looks like a base coat to me :P
 
Hot sauce and mustard are a couple more that work you might have sitting around.
 
Apple Cider vinegar is nice. You can heat it up and it makes it really dark and solid if you let it soak in it.

I have also used standard yellow mustard and Horseradish mustard, which turned out pretty cool with some random patterns.

There was an amazing BK2 for sale that had a beautiful patina made with only Horseradish. Here's an example (see post #16).
 
well i found some Worcestershire sauce, let it sit in that for about a half hour, turned out pretty nice, and for now its sitting most of the way into an onion. i might end it there but i might do some more, no idea really. there's no kill like overkill XD
 
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