Stripped and Patinalyzed BK-11

[Flying Guillotine]

Here we have the before and after patina shots. Enjoy!

Before

After

 

[NixKustoms]

Nice work on it.

 

[sheriff125]

nice job! thanks for sharing

 

[madhappy]

I like that look alot what did use.

 

[Flying Guillotine]

I like that look alot what did use.

I pretty much threw the contents of my fridge at it. First a total slathering in yellow mustard, which made it sort of irregular and weird so I washed it off.
A soak in white vinegar followed, after which I cut up a tangerine and laid the slices on the blade. After this was done, it didn't look right at all, I had a problem with overlap and parts that didn't contact. Washed it off, another vinegar dip, too.
I did a regular dot pattern of more mustard over the whole thing, left to hang overnight, rinsed it off to reveal a more regular pattern of overall mottling. Needed more screwing around, though.

Tried again with the tangerine, this time carving chunks of fruit into blade-shaped segments that fit together, using the lot as a sort of citrus sheath.
Finally, by hand I "stippled" lime juice onto the blade surface, let it dry and then stippled a second coat over it. This was left to dry/etch in overnight. In the morning the thing looked about as it does above, but a little dry with residue from all the nasty shit I had piled onto it. A thorough wash up followed by a nice mineral oil treatment and a paracord wrap and voila, easy as pie.

FYI: stripped it before hand with some spray on paint stripper. There's a buttload of threads about stripping off the coating, so check there before I build another wall o text.

 

[slapper]

It looks great, kind of a "hammered" look.:thumbup:

 

[JSchroeck]

really loving that patina, makes me want to slap a patina on my bk2.