Pickled Rats

[Horn Dog]

I am having trouble getting on Rat Chat, so I am posting here. I've been playing around with vinegar patinas yesterday and today. I just remove all oils and protectives from the stripped blades and soak them in a pan of ordinary vinegar. After an hour or so they look like this:

This requres little effort, skill or technique. It's too hot to work hard outside right now.

If you wipe them and rinse them, they are more even, but if you let them air dry some and then re-emerse them, you get a mottled look. Then you just dry and oil them, and maybe touch up the edge a bit.

 

[leatherman]

I like that mottled look! Well done!

I did a mustard patina on a Camp Tramp a few yeas ago and really liked the results. My Mastiff is screaming for a patina now.

 

[boef800]

Very cool!
Thanks for this great tip.I got my stripped Ratmandu in the kitchensink right now.
Courious how it'll turn out.
Horn,what was the other patina you did a while ago on the Ratmandu?Mustard?

Alex

 

[IUKE12]

One question, if the option is available to remove the grips,as in the case with the Rangers, why dip the knives with the grips? I've always removed them. Obviously, you have no choice with the hollow pins...just wondering.