Stonewashed Carbon Fiber?

gull wing

gull wing

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This is the full slab carbon fiber.

Has anyone done it? Just wonder how it would look.
I would not try it with mine unless I see another one.
 
Bored again? I bet it would look like dull carbon fiber with a bunch of scratches. You try first, I'm right behind you [emoji10].
 
Yeah, I wouldn't do it. Stonewash is a fine treatment for metals, not so much for plastics, even super-phenolic-resins.
 
I'm sure Mr Reeve was ask these questions:
"Titanium framelock? Are you serious?"
"Scratches on your blade(stonewash)? Why aren't you polishing your blades?"
 
Why would I pay a premium to buy carbon fiber scales only to have it look like G10?
 
gull wing said:
I'm sure Mr Reeve was ask these questions:
"Titanium framelock? Are you serious?"
"Scratches on your blade(stonewash)? Why aren't you polishing your blades?"
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Sounds like you've made up your mind. Prove us wrong: do it and post pics.
 
Carbon fiber scales would be ruined with a stonewash. If you want textured cf there are plenty of scale makers that can do it. Spyderco uses peel ply cf on most of their US made CF sprints, here's an example of how it looks....its not as nice looking as polished cf but it is very grippy.

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gull wing said:
I'm sure Mr Reeve was ask these questions:
"Titanium framelock? Are you serious?"
"Scratches on your blade(stonewash)? Why aren't you polishing your blades?"
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Yeah, except those are all great ideas. I don't really care how you think it's going to look, my point is that it will be damaging to the carbon fiber, though that will obviously be determined by how you execute your stonewashing.

Like sldk said, try it if you think it will look good. I think it will make it very matte, and scratch the surface up too much for my tastes. I love the peel-ply CF, but I think stonewashing your carbon fiber won't be good for it.

Equating your idea to stonewash CF with the idea for a titanium frame lock or stonewashing steel is pretty ridiculous. I'm sure you'll be credited with discovering the next great knife innovation. :rolleyes:
 
I would be worried about the CF chipping all over. I am not extensively experienced with CF in knives, but I try to avoid it on bicycles. Carbon fiber can deteriorate quickly with damage.
That said, if anyone does it, it would be better thread material than the Cold Steel v. CRK stand-off taking over this subforum...
 
blade man said:
Yeah, except those are all great ideas. I don't really care how you think it's going to look, my point is that it will be damaging to the carbon fiber, though that will obviously be determined by how you execute your stonewashing.

Like sldk said, try it if you think it will look good. I think it will make it very matte, and scratch the surface up too much for my tastes. I love the peel-ply CF, but I think stonewashing your carbon fiber won't be good for it.

Equating your idea to stonewash CF with the idea for a titanium frame lock or stonewashing steel is pretty ridiculous. I'm sure you'll be credited with discovering the next great knife innovation. :rolleyes:
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interesting take. I am surprised that no one pondered the statement in the OP regarding "I would not try it with mine..." I'm confident that Mr. Reeve didn't/Wouldn't take this "you first" approach...

That was why i questioned if this was serious...
 
Thanks, unit!

Acquired a piece of carbon fiber, stonewashed it. It doesn't look as good as steel blades do. The ceramic media cuts steel and makes a nice finish, but the super hard CF composite doesn't "take" a nice looking pattern.
 
gull wing said:
Thanks, unit!

Acquired a piece of carbon fiber, stonewashed it. It doesn't look as good as steel blades do. The ceramic media cuts steel and makes a nice finish, but the super hard CF composite doesn't "take" a nice looking pattern.
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Post some pictures up, show us what it looks like.
 
I think it would depend on what kind of ceramic media would be used. I'll throw a scrap of cf in my tumbler tonite after work and post a before and after pic.
 
My pictures are not so great, plus the finish is not very pleasing anyway.




To compare, here are a couple of CF scale knives.

Here is the Ceramic Media I used.
 
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