Strip the coating off a blade while leaving the coating under the scales

FAL'ER

FAL'ER

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Some of you folks may have tried this without success and others won't care in the least. I like to lock tite my screws on and I am in Oregon so I really do like the piece of mind of not having to wory about rust under the scales.

Start with laying out this Scotch 3M green laquer tape down and covering the entire area with a layer of it.


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Next screw the Grivory scales down tight over the top of the tape. Blurry pic but you get the idea.


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trim the tape away from around the outside diameter of the grivory scales. You can see the tape in the lanyard hole. Here's the stripper I used and gloves along with the applicator brush.


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I used a stick I had laying around as my scraper. This Stripper "Jasco" "Speedomatic" is just one brand with the same active ingredients. It only takes two or three minutes to eat up that Camillus epoxy coat.


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This is the chemical you want to use for this because it works so fast it doesn't have the time to soak in up under the handles before you rinse it off.


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Lets say one coat of stripper over the surface with a second coat in spots I must've missed the first go around. Here's the whole deal after rinsing off the stripper.


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Same pic as before but with the new Micarta I made for this knife. Micarta not finished yet.


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Taken apart , and dried out to make sure I got all the stripper out of there.


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Blade stripping finished, and it turned out how I wanted it to. This way works folks. Don't shortcut the shortcut.


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I hear ya. I like have coatings on the area my hand touches the knife and under the scales. I've been sanding the blade to take the coating off. A little more elbow grease but a lot easier to control.
 
Does the stripper have any effect on the grivory that you can tell?
 
im about to do just the opposite (paint under the scales on an already stripped bk2) ill post a thread on when im done, just thought it was funny
 
I like to add that where I think folks screw this up is in two areas, one - they use a stripper that works too slowly and the blade has to be left sitting in the stripper for long periods allowing it to slowly seep under the tape. Two they don't screw the scales back on to help keep pressure on the tape around the perimeter of the scales.
 
Thats a really good job right there! Nice !!
 
Thanks folks. I'll definitley put up some pics when I finish those scales. It's a slow process cause I do almost all of it with a rasp and sandpaper, Other than the holes that is.
 
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