Repairing knife coating?

[Federation]

I have a Schrade scha5 that I've dropped a few times and as a result the black coating on the handle is starting to look pretty beat. I might just take some acetone to it and have a full silver knife, but I really like the black and would like to repair it if at all possible.

So my question is: is it practical to try and recoat it, and if so what should I use, or should I not even bother?

 

[NJBillK]

You must have dropped it from pretty high, that thing looks broken near the front 1/3 of the handle...

I would just take some wet/dry sand paper to it and see if you can get a blackwash look to it. If that doesn't work, strip it and sand to 1500 grit and use the hell out of it.

 

[TravisH]

It's practically impossible to duplicate factory coatings. And I don't know of any that will re-coat a blade.

But you can do your own. Depending on the steel, you can force patinas to varying shades down to flat blacks or send them out to be parkerized or cerakoted.

Stripping a blade is relatively easy. Any chemical stripper from a big box store will work - Citrustrip is popluar.

 

[bladeninja]

Might want to ask Josh at Razor Edge Knives. He's on the forum and has experience with this.

 

[aquaman67]

Just to give you an idea of what's possible-

I have a Benchmade 720 with coated aluminum scales. New it looked like this.



So on another forum I saw this



He bead blasted the scales and used Oxi-Clean to patina the scales. Then he stone washed them.

I think it's gorgeous. So much so I went to Harbor Freight and bought a small bead blaster and some glass media.

I haven't done it yet - but I'm going to.

 

[TravisH]

Might want to ask Josh at Razor Edge Knives. He's on the forum and has experience with this.

Josh does some very nice work.

For your perusal ...
http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/s...harpening-Regrind-Cerakote-Service-(pic-heavy!!)