Rust Bluing a Khukuri

Mercury and cyanide in your bones causes the most serious strain of HIKV known to man! Carefull with that stuff Gehazi!
Gehazi said:
It was something my old man used to do, take a bone mash and some potassium cyanide and cook it it leaves these cool multicolored designs on the steel? case hardening i think ? I see it all the time, I thought it was all done with that ;o

lol i am looking it up, its just a very vague memory but i remember cyanide being used in gun bluing or case hardening
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omg my past !!! haunting meeeee ! khukuri dance in my mind , himalayan imports faeries deliver bashpati and chitlangi to all the children, mad hatter had a khukuri and made me eat the blue pill.
 
See what happens when you drop bluing acid? Instead of talking walls and paranoia you get visions of bashpati and your knife collection reproduces exponentially!
 
Awesome information. Thank you.

As long as its not toxic (fumes etc.) it should be easy to take care. Had been working with acids quite often (biotech) for many years.

Mercury shouldn't be bad either as long as its organic :p
 
Just ordered the bluing solution. $53!!!:eek: Now I feel poor. And robbed. $16 for "hazmat":mad:. Just pack the bottle in a box of baking soda and send it on its way. If they don't "handle with care" they get to be an EPA superfund site.
 
I would imagine so. That was $53 total BTW. Hazmat was $16 on top of $37. Apparently USPS isn't hardcore enough to carry acid solutions so they have to use UPS or Fedex.
 
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USPS doesn't even ship wine. Wanted to send 2 bottles to my parents in Germany. Anyways after I declared it as fermented grape juice USPS was fine with it. The post aunties were discussing it with each other and laughed a bit and off it went.
 
Anyone else notice this blued trisuli from the other thread?


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I did and it sure looks like it was cold blued, hard to tell if it was blued prior to handle or after.

Be interesting to know for sure if it was done by the owner (my guess) or left the maker that way. (I doubt it).
 
Uncle Bill was a fan of cold blue so I wouldn't be surprised if someone went over that trisuli several times with oxpho or a similar chemical.
 
Jens Schuetz said:
USPS doesn't even ship wine. Wanted to send 2 bottles to my parents in Germany. Anyways after I declared it as fermented grape juice USPS was fine with it. The post aunties were discussing it with each other and laughed a bit and off it went.
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That is a cool little tip! Thanks.
 
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