Removing Teflon Coating?

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Is there a way to strip teflon coating from a knife blade? Some sort of chemical? Much of it is worn by handling alone and the knife is used. It's a Cold Steel Night Force and I'd like to polish it.

Thanks!

--Confed
 
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I have personally never done that but I have done all kinds of "hard to do" projects with my DREMEL tool. You could go to Home Depot or any hardware store that carries DREMEL accessories and find a small grinding stone that I bet would do the trick. I couldn't live without my DREMEL.

You might also try taking silicon carbide sandpaper and going about it slowly. Either one of them would be worth taking shot at.
 
Many people has had some success using worn piece of Scotch Brite then following up with some MAAS metal polish to give it a nice satin sheen.
 
Thanks. I'll probably not go the Dremel route, but the Scotch Brite may be a good way to go. Eventually I want to put a high shine on it, though.

--Confed
 
The Dremel with stone will scratch your blade so badly that you will never be able to polish it.
Use Scotchbrite or automotive sandpaper.
Bill
 
I read that there are different grades of Scotch Brite, but the best to use is an old soft one so that it doesn't dig to deep and it will give a more even finish. I also use it on some titanium scales and my Tear-Jerker.
 
Although I've never tried it on teflon coated blades, naval jelly will take the bluing off steel.
 
The easies thing that I used to remove the blade coating on my CS fillet knives was a spoon- it flaked off much easier than a dremel tool, steel wool, scotch brite and so on- and unless you have a very hard spoon it will not scratch the blade- then just sand down to the finish you want!!
 
I took the coating off my Benchmade with some 320 grit sandpaper backed by my Sharpmaker ceramic rod.
 
Bill DeShivs said:
The Dremel with stone will scratch your blade so badly that you will never be able to polish it.
Use Scotchbrite or automotive sandpaper.
Bill
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I probably should have expounded on that a bit more than I did concerning the use of a DREMEL tool to remove the Teflon coating from a blade. Obviously you would have to be very delicate with it and use it in a tentative, gingerly fashion as to not leave huge scrathes in the blade. NO I was not saying to just go and buzz it like a chain saw :D But DREMEL does make some nice, very fine stones you could use to slowly but methodically do it a little at a time. Also you could do just 3 or 4 places to get the process started to give you an entry to use a Scotchbrite pad or silicon carbide paper to do it more slowly and deliberately.

Sorry about that guys I should have explained myself in little more in detail. There are probably a half a dozen ways to do this. Interesting needless to say ;)
 
I've never attempted Teflon removal but maybe a past experience of mine might be of help. I had a radio to install in the dash of a car once and the trim plate was polished chrome but the dash was a black wrinkled finish.
Admittedly, I had the advantage of having access to a sandblast setup at my workplace and a co-worker suggested using ground walnut shells as media to strip the chrome.
It worked beautifully, leaving a flat finish on the trim bezel and after painting and baking, matched the dash almost perfectly.

YRMV:)
 
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