Polishing intervention-CJ needs help and suport.

cj65

cj65

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I need some support from you guys.... Someone needs to tell me to put down the Flitz and step away from the knife.......

There is patina on there from my sweaty hands (a wonderful trait not to mention a real chick magnet), and, I want to.........:(POLISH it off!!!!!

I am attempting to evolve to the next level of Folksy Traditional life form. I remain at slime mold level, and want to progress to an amoeba. If I polish this knife, I remain a lower vegetative life form in the plant kingdom of our troop. I will not get to play all the animal kingdom games at our next jamboree.

Can anyone help out a brother with some words of encouragement?
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Sorry...I have never had a patina form on one of my carbon steel blades, they get wiped down every time they are carried and the thought of sticking a knife into an onion and letting the acids eat away at the steel is abhorrent to me...flitz away friend...flitz away...
 
CJ, LOOK AT ME!

Put the Flitz down and step back from the knife!

Do it now!

That knife didn't do anything bad to you, so stop stunting it's growth. Patina is a normal thing. It shows a progresion of age. We all do it, so why don't we just let your knife get grey like you're gonna be in a few years from now. Go ahead and let it mature with you. The two of you will grow old together if you let it happen. It's a good thing, trust me!

Now toss the Flitz in the trash can. No, in the trash can. You're grandad didn't use Flitz, or any other polish on his pocket knife, and niether should you. it ain't natural.

Good boy, now go slice up a nice apple and enjoy the formation of a nice patina. :thumbup:

:D
 
but Jackknife,

I ...........

ummm

I

I am scared.

(CJ curled up in a fetal position clutching his tube of Flitz)
 
jackknife said:
. . . so stop stunting it's growth.
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That cracked me up right there. :p :D

CJ, you can do it. It's okay. Just send the knife/knives in question to me for safekeeping, until you can be 'broken' of your nasty little habit. :) Anything I can do to help, my friend.

thx - cpr
 
Hee Hee Thanks guys, I feel better now. I actually am turning around. I never used to let patina develop, now I will let it happen. It is appealing to me now, when in the past, I did not like it. Now, I see the light! No, I mean the grey, oh well, you know what I mean.....
 
That's some very, VERY cool knife. I'm totally crazy about mine. Leave the Flitz be, just wipe the blade with some good gun oil. The dark blades will make it even cooler. You're one lucky dude.
 
Sorry...I was raised in a house where you shined your shoes daily or you got a trip to the woodshed, if you shot a gun you cleaned it, after splitting wood you sharpened and oiled the ax...the same daily care was expected of your knife. I doubt I will ever stop wiping down the knives in my pocket in the evening, they get wiped at the same time the guns I carried that day get wiped down.
 
@Absintheur: the difference is that when you are wiping a gun down, you are protecting it and it's protective blueing (blueing/browning of all kinds is really just a factory applied patina - yes, they let various chemicals eat into the steel of a gun, and then they sell it to you as *new* - and you like it - imagine that). But when you keep a carbon knife from forming and keeping a patina, you're not helping anything -- you're preventing a vital protective layer from forming on the steel. Shiny is neither the best nor the natural state for carbon steel -- it's just an invitation for rust - and polishing and messing about to maintain it is just a pointless pain in the butt and time waster for the user. Just wipe your knives down, keep them dry -- and throw that Flitz in the garbage bin.

-- Dwight
 
Thanks Dwight! It really was a paradigm shift for me. I am gonna let the patina form naturally from now on.
 
cj65 said:
There is patina on there from my sweaty hands (a wonderful trait not to mention a real chick magnet), and, I want to.........:(POLISH it off!!!!!


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Let me see if I got this right. You are having an internal struggle about getting rid of something that makes you a chick magnet? You got bigger problems than this forum can help you with :D


p.s. open the front door, and throw the Flitz as far as you can.
 
jackknife said:
CJ, LOOK AT ME!

Put the Flitz down and step back from the knife!

Do it now!

Now toss the Flitz in the trash can. No, in the trash can. You're grandad didn't use Flitz, or any other polish on his pocket knife, and niether should you. it ain't natural.
:D
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jackknife, you're a wonder! Keep on bringin' it son, keep on.
 
I am already feeling liberated. I need to start carrying a hankerchief now...
 
and mine is let happen what happens! Sounds like a cop out i know, but the carbon looking aged doesnt bother me... Mine happens and i dont try and stop it. That being said if it gets weird and spotty i use some 000 steel wool and mineral oil and lightly even it out. None of my carbon edc knives look shiny anymore, i'm okay with that.:)
But i see nothing wrong with cleaning and polishing your knives, they are yours to carry and enjoy!
Hows that for a definitive answer;)
BTW good looking knife
cheers
ivan
ps i believe that gun blueing is patina, the ultimate in forced patinas!
 
I think it looks pretty neat in that photo of yours, don't see a reason to worry about it or run to get Flitz. The steel will just become a bit grey over time, as is the nature of the beast.

There's been a couple of times that I've experimented with a forced patina on a carbon steel knife and when the result was a bit too dark and blotchy I did polish it back up. Should I have done it, dunno, trial and error and all that. Just best perhaps to let the the knife develop a patina slowly, and for lack of a better word, naturally?

It'll be allright. I think. :D
 
here are 3 of mine, the medium stockman is the one that got a bit blotchy and i evened it out after this photo.:D Nothing really forced, but i use them for kitchen duty (lotsa onions and tomatoes) and my granny smith apple addiction:D
ivan
viva la patina!
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