Show Your Patina, Forced, Earned, or Accidental

[jlhoffman74]

Nice sodbuster Flatblackcapo!!! Love that chestnut coloring.

 

[black mamba]

Tidioute #48, just after forcing with hot vinegar . . . doesn't look this way any longer, more smeared and smoothed out.

50+ years of earned patina on this Simmons Keen Kutter cattle knife.

60+ years of earned patina on this Robeson swell center pen.

This #23 Pioneer is an old favorite, with earned, hard use patina over a starting vinegar force.

 

[-bootstrap-]

Hey all,

I am fairly new here and thought it would be fun to see different peoples patinas. I love how different a patina can look depending on how the knife is used. Here is my Lick Creek Boys knife in Gabon Ebony. I have been using it to cut fruit a lot (mostly apples) and I love how the patina is coming along.

 

[BigBiscuit]

Here's a whole thread for you to peruse.

http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/s...-Forced-Earned-or-Accidental?highlight=Patina

 

[knarfeng]

Good idea, Bob. This should be merged with that thread.

 

[Henry Beige]

OK, I'll play.
This Anza comes by it honestly, from years of moto touring and camping, and sitting in damp garages over the winter:

The Opinel lived pretty much the same life:

 

[Wurrwulf]

Forced a patina on my Yeller Peanut today using warmed satsuma juice.

I used an orange to force this patina on my 14 after some serious pepper spotting showed up from working in the southern heat and humidity.

 

[colubrid]

I have owned this Ulster scout for over 50 years, and it is still working hard every week.
No fruit or animals have been harmed in the formation of this patina!

thumbs up

 

[Hickory n steel]

I just found this thread, and wanted to share a technique I came up with for creating a false hamon line on a knife ( I don't have any examples anymore but trust me it works great )
What you do is smear Vaseline on your edge in the desired pattern the soak your blade in lemon juice ...ect .

 

[joeradza]

Well earned.

 

[Hickory n steel]

This imperial h6 has developed a pretty good patina ( plus some light pitting ) through the years

The clip blade on this imperial Barlow has a nice natural patina, but I had to force one on the pen blade to cover up the previous owners single bad sharpening attempt ( don't think the clip was ever sharpened and the pen blade seems to have had just one sharpening which happened to he a bad one )

 

[ScottG]

 

[tmd_87]

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[VermontEdge]

Using the old "an apple a day..." model to get an earned patina started on my new Madison Barlow.

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[JITDC]

First attempt at a forced patina with hot vinegar on my week old #14 boys knife in antique yellow jigged bone. Its a little smeared and not as cool as a real earned patina.

 

[mortonm]

First attempt at a forced patina with hot vinegar on my week old #14 boys knife in antique yellow jigged bone. Its a little smeared and not as cool as a real earned patina.

Good baseline though, over time it will come in with the natural spots etc

 

[Old Engineer]

First attempt at a forced patina with hot vinegar on my week old #14 boys knife in antique yellow jigged bone. Its a little smeared and not as cool as a real earned patina.

Get yourself some rhubarb and cut a stem of it from one end to the other.
Within minutes , you will have some dark patina. Maybe darker than you want !!!

Harry

 

[meako]

 

[5K Qs]

Imperial toothpick just like Grandpa used to carry, even though this knife didn't belong to my Grandpa (thanks, Dave):

- GT

 

[Trout Hound]

'Tis the season for fresh tomatoes and peaches here in NC, and I am loving what it's doing to the patina on my 6318! You can really see the difference compared to the closed sheepsfoot blade.