The Bears' Den--Shirogorov Showcase

[rexromic]

CRK,Shirogorov and Rockstead are my trio of best built knives out there.
Had and have a lot of production,customs.My opinion and conclusion.Cheers!

 

[Pompous]

Just waiting for the supplies to come in, but tomorrow I will be attempting to remove the factory anodization from my CDX. Slightly nervous as it's the first time I've done anything like this, but we'll see how it goes. I'd much prefer the clean titanium to the slight gray-ish blue-ish it's carrying right now. One of my buddies has already done this to his own CDX and I love the final look he got - so we'll see if I'm able to replicate that.

I'm going to be doing a whink bath, and then possibly some soft wheel polishing using a dremel depending on what the finish looks like. If I'm not happy after that I might end up sending it off to someone to do a light blast - but we shall see! hopefully I'm happy straight out of the gate with the ano removed but that's part of the fun I suppose.

Figured a last shot with it's current look was only appropriate - and I'll be sure to get some after shots once completed.

 

[CPP]

Just waiting for the supplies to come in, but tomorrow I will be attempting to remove the factory anodization from my CDX. Slightly nervous as it's the first time I've done anything like this, but we'll see how it goes. I'd much prefer the clean titanium to the slight gray-ish blue-ish it's carrying right now. One of my buddies has already done this to his own CDX and I love the final look he got - so we'll see if I'm able to replicate that.

I'm going to be doing a whink bath, and then possibly some soft wheel polishing using a dremel depending on what the finish looks like. If I'm not happy after that I might end up sending it off to someone to do a light blast - but we shall see! hopefully I'm happy straight out of the gate with the ano removed but that's part of the fun I suppose.

Figured a last shot with it's current look was only appropriate - and I'll be sure to get some after shots once completed.

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Have you considered trying this on an old knife first?

 

[Pompous]

Have you considered trying this on an old knife first?

Yeah definitely - unfortunately I just dont have anything anodized in my collection to try on, other than the CDX - I tend to prefer just blasted handles so that's what I've gravitated toward. I'm still poking around to see if I maybe have a tag or bead or something that is anodized that I could try real quick. Otherwise I'm thinking I'll do the clip first and just be super careful with it - sticking to very quick dunks in the whink and then neutralizing - repeat as necessary. If I over-do the clip a bit I wont be too broken up about it.

 

[Pompous]

Was a quick trip and a nice change. The handle texture is noticeably different -





Definitely not a huge change - but I think the below highlights the difference - the whink did not get all the way down in the base of the backspacer pin hole - so you can see the blue ano remains. The difference in the blue against the now flat titanium color is really noticeable side-by-side. I will most likely be pulling this back apart to do a slight polish to the outer surfaces - this should help improve the surface finish so it feels a bit better in hand - but I'm super happy to get that little bit of a blue tint gone. The final result may end up being a light polish and then blasting it lightly for texture/smoothing - but we will see! So far, so good.

 

[Jsega51]

Pompous you crazy bas#ard

I think if you polish that up a little bit it’s gonna look great. The process looks like it left it a bit cloudy?

 

[Pompous]

Pompous you crazy bas#ard

I think if you polish that up a little bit it’s gonna look great. The process looks like it left it a bit cloudy?

Visually it honestly looks fine in person - the feeling in hand is... bizarre. The word that came to mind was "spongey" but thats not quite right. Just doesnt feel right when we're so used to handling blasted, stonewashed, or burnished titanium scales.

Definitely think the polish will help - my buddy who has done this before mentioned he did a polishing progression and then light blasting which really helped to blend everything together. I'm going to go with a light polish and see how that looks/feels and then may send it to him for an assist if I cant get it quite perfect myself.

That being said I absolutely nailed the Hi-Slip moly grease on this re-assembly so the action is crispier than ever - which I'm loving!

 

[Arethustra]

New in

Been hunting for one of these for a while...very nice!