Rust Never Sleep

Dick

Dick

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This is not the old album of Neil Young and the Crazy Horse.

My Battle Rat after removing the Black Coating, it is very easy to get rusted.
perhaps one of the practical ways is to allow the easy rustable part of the knife surface to get rusted and remove the rusyed particl part out with Sand Blast process.

Here it is

Putting the knifw into the toilet bowl Water Reserving Part so that the water lever changing period will allow the oxigen to touch the blade surface from time to time and the knife perhaps get rusted faster.
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Look at the blade surface the grain of the knife steel made some angle (not pararel) with the blade allignment. I do not know if this is the intention of the manufacturer.

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Interesting! Thanks for the visual info, I wonder what our metal savy members have to say about grain structure and its effect of the integrity of the knife.

I do know that in forging the heat cycles help to align the grain structure, but I'm not sure if the polarity makes a differece.
 
Great pics guys! Very interesting thread -- look forward to hearing more of the results.

Michael - those look great!
 
Dick, did you re-handle your battlerat with some rosewood or somethin'? Interesting pics!:thumbup:
 
I guess I don't understand the strategy of intentionally rusting the blade to prevent future rusting. The rust creates very small pits on the face of the steel that increases the surface area available to oxidize . Those new pits can also potentially trap more moisture.

I would have done exactly the opposite: try to get a mirror shine on the blade with no pitting or scratches of any kind. If any surface rust did appear it would be easy to remove because of the mirror finish.

Nice handles, btw. :thumbup: :cool:
 
It seems that some guys here like the handle of my knife............


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@dicks first post

it could be the graindirection of the steel, or alloy banding or something else related to the manufacturingprocess of the steel, maybe that steel started its life as a big big plate/sheet, and got cut up to smaller pieces in a somewhat diagonal direction. or i could be totally wrong, however quite interesting pics.
 
Darkish is more preferable


To my understanding, Double Cut Principle is to Blast the knife Surface with 2 processes.

First is to Blast with Aluminum Oxide which is very aggressive and angle shape. The Steel Surface is so hard and require aggressive Abrasives to handle.

The Angle shape of Abrasives make the surface darkish and so the designer of the knife prefer a more brighter look, so using Glass Bead which is round shape . This process makes the look of blade brighter.

The first one look so bright and I do not like it so go back to process one.

Please the result.

( I personally think that a dented surface will hold the anti-rust liquid better than mirror finish surface and therefore as long as rust is concerned i prefer dented surface......... Sorry KRAZ for different opinion.:) )




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I'll never get over seeing pictures of your customizing, Dick. Absolutely beautiful!

-S
 
Dick, I read your first post twice to understand what you were up to. Do I understand that you intentionally rusted it, then cleaned it, so it wouldn't rust so easily any more? Has this been implemented on other steel successfully. I haven't heard of this method before. Very interesting.

Wouldn't treating it with ferric oxide work as well? Was your intention to have a shiney finish; is that why you didn't use some of the other common "treatments"?
 
Damn the Man said:
Dick, I read your first post twice to understand what you were up to. Do I understand that you intentionally rusted it, then cleaned it, so it wouldn't rust so easily any more? Has this been implemented on other steel successfully. I haven't heard of this method before. Very interesting.

Wouldn't treating it with ferric oxide work as well? Was your intention to have a shiney finish; is that why you didn't use some of the other common "treatments"?
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Yes , you are right. Sorry for my poor English :)

I am not an expert myself for metal techniques but this techniques was narated to me by one of the machinery maker. He call this techniques " Seasoning" .......or something like this.

the same guy whole told me this, he bought a lot of steel and left them outdoor for years before he use them for machinery working.
 
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