Stripping the coating on American Lawman?

CrimsonTideShooter

CrimsonTideShooter

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Have any of you guys stripped your American lawman before? I don't mind the black coating but I know it's going to chip over time.

Is there any problems stripping the coating off of these knives? What's underneath? Will it be shiny and polished or a satin finish? Thanks everyone.
 
Most CS knives are pretty good underneath.

I'd use epoxy/paint stripper on it.

Then hit it with 1000 grit and water.

If you start with 220 or 320 and sand it off you'll have a lot of scratches that will take a lot of work to get out.

Just my opinion.
 
Good luck finding a stripper that works, I've used 2 types with zero success. I ended up using the blade of my SAK classic.

The blade is stonewashed so I wouldn't sand it.
 
Way different coating Sarge, that looks expoxy based, and the folders are teflon. I can say that acetone and stripper didn't work for me either. But just scraping it off did, and only took about 1/2 hour start to finish for the whole knife.
 
samhain73 said:
Way different coating Sarge, that looks expoxy based, and the folders are teflon. I can say that acetone and stripper didn't work for me either. But just scraping it off did, and only took about 1/2 hour start to finish for the whole knife.
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So I can just scrape the Teflon coating off my lawman without damaging the blade?

How do I go about doing that? (I asked this in the other thread too)
 
samhain73 said:
Way different coating Sarge, that looks expoxy based, and the folders are teflon. I can say that acetone and stripper didn't work for me either. But just scraping it off did, and only took about 1/2 hour start to finish for the whole knife.
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That is a Japan made SRK Sam, that is a Teflon coating. The Camillus CS blades were Epoxy coated and it takes longer on those. I have videos of those too. Teflon coatings come off like butter. It is actually comical to watch it.

Jasco stripper will eat the teflon coating off in seconds. You just watched it! :thumbup:
 
I have some pretty nasty stripper and it didn't effect it at all. That teflon coating is easy to scratch but holds up great to nearly any chemical. Scraping it off was just easier than spending money on another stripper that didn't work.
 
knifenut1013 said:
I have some pretty nasty stripper and it didn't effect it at all. That teflon coating is easy to scratch but holds up great to nearly any chemical. Scraping it off was just easier than spending money on another stripper that didn't work.
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Teflon coatings are the easiest to get off with chemicals. You HAVE to use EPOXY remover.

Again ... watch the video ....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wY9MW7i1HDk
 
I assumed, (perhaps incorrectly, who cares :p) since it looks like it's in the bucket soaking in the pic? I'm just saying it's not necessary to use it at all, I didn't.
 
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samhain73 said:
I assumed, (perhaps incorrectly, who cares :p) since it looks like it's in the bucket soaking in the pic? I'm just saying it's not necessary to use it at all, I didn't.
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You know what assumed means and you are saying others are wrong ... but you are.

You know as well as I do that being that he isn't as experienced as others that he might end up with a scratched up blade.

I bet HE would care.
 
I started sanding mine off and it worked fine but then I took my old Opinel beater and began scraping. It worked well and didn't throw off a lot of dust so I stuck with that.
 
i used a regular copper kitchen scrubber pad + balistol + elbow grease :thumbup:

took me about 20min of scrubbing and watching tv :)
 
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