question for knifemakers

steelswing

steelswing

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I'm putting togather a Darrell Ralph Kit. I would like to color the liners or the spine before doing file work. Preferably the spacers. My question is how? With heat? if so fire or a even heat like an oven?
Any help is much apprectiated.
Thanks Bob
PS if this gets moved please e-mail any help to me
Thanks:confused:
 
I'm moving this to Shop Talk, but you can still find the thread by the link I'll leave in Community Center. :cool:
 
If you have gas stove burners you can use that, or just go to home depot and get a small propane torch. They can be had for less than 20 bucks. Then just heat the liners as evenly as possible and have some water sitting by to drop them in when you reach the color you want. You might want to practice on some scraps to get the color even before doing it on your liners/spacers.
 
Somthing that will help is to bead blast the Ti liners
if you are going to heat color them,make sure you do not touch were
you want color.Surface prep is very important with Heat coloring Ti
 
I beleive Dave Larsen put one of those together a while back, and Dave could give you some good insight with the D.R. kits. He is a good knife maker in his own right, by the way.
 
The knife kits have SS spacers and liners, not Ti. I don't think steel can be colored with electricity, can it?
 
Yep, I built a DDR kit and heat colored the liners.

First I did the filework, then I heat colored the liners, then I "cleaned up" the filework.

To get an even color I laid the liner on a piece of simple steel and heated that from underneath with a propane torch. Quench in water when you get the color you want.

Hope this helps.

Dave
 
I just want to Thank all of you for you sugestions. I may e-mail some of you to ask a few more. I'll show yall how it turns out.
Thanks All
Bob:D
 
I toldjaso! DAVE KNOWS! Pretty neat trick, coloring the steel that way. I wonder how IG's relish would color it. Probably dissolve the liners! Sorryeeeeee, IG! No offense to your relish, seriously.
 
You can also go to ckdforums (you probably know this already) and ask the guys over there. They do some incredible work to those kits.
 
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