the becker etch how to. NEW TECHNIQUE AND PICS POST #25

[The Warrior]

and to be honest I just don't got that kinda time

I hear ya, hard to give up that forum time.

 

[hawaiianhawk]

Damn that is pretty... Looks like python skin.

I have a stripped Kabar Kukri sitting around and a bottle of that Birchwood Casey stuff under my bed... Hmmm... Guess I need some vinegar and cotton balls.

 

[BredcellK-5]

Thanks to Your forum I managed this>

 

[clich]

upload the pics to photobucket, then copy the IMG code and paste in your post

 

[BredcellK-5]

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[BredcellK-5]

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[Chameleonbear]

Helped some

 

[clich]

Very cool

 

[thrillbilly]

Helped some

that is sharp! what technique did u use applying the blue to make that pattern Bred?

 

[BredcellK-5]

 

[BredcellK-5]

Q-tip.Heres the handle.

 

[BredcellK-5]

So someone please tell me how to post these pics step by step.

 

[CaptinRedBeard]

So someone please tell me how to post these pics step by step.

It looks like you had it right with post #46. You were just missing the "" in the front of the link.

Edit: And the "h" in http at the beginning.

 

[BredcellK-5]

 

[BredcellK-5]

http://i525.photobucket.com/albums/cc332/shelldogloves13/BK-5003.jpg

 

[BredcellK-5]

http://i525.photobucket.com/albums/cc332/shelldogloves13/BK-5001.jpg Thank you to everyone that put there hard work into the handle and sheath it really made the knife.

 

[Thumper99]

Voila! just the flats!

When you said just the flats, did you apply bluing to the entire surface of the flats, or was it in some sort of a pattern?

I have already blued the flats on my BK-2, but I would really like to try this technique. . .

 

[thrillbilly]

stripped it like normal, sanded all the grey coating off, washed it, cleaned it with acetone, handled it with latex gloves so I wouldn't get any oil on it

Then wiped it down with cold blue on a cottonball...all that^ is ''normal'' for how I etch, here's where I digressed. While the blue was still wet, I rubed it down with 0000 steel wool soaked in Blue (makes it more even supposedly) then soaked it in bleach for 1 hour 10 minutes, stirring/agitating it with a stirrer every 5 minutes or so ( I had it in a dish, wedged in the corners, blade down..just the tip and tiny bit of pommel touching glass)

Then pulled it out, wiped it off on a towel (still wearing latex so as not to mark it) and using pliers (gripped it in the handle holes) I dunked it in boiling water for 3-4 minutes, then rinsed it off, and polished it down with more clean 0000 steelwool. then scrubbed it with palmolive and dish scrubber pad a few times under running hot water. then dried and wiped down with mineral oil.

It looks good with the black zytel...curious as to what it'll look like with the wood grips.


EDIT- AFTER I blued it..I appled a thin layer of Vick's vapor rub to the edge with a Q-tip..I have been applying Vicks BEFORE I blued, this way makes a MUCH cleaner edge....

..as u can see by comparing it to the wavy etch edge on my 11

 

[Catmouth]

That's damn perrty thrillbilly. Looks like urban camo or something.

 

[crimsonfalcon07]

Like the one with just the flats done. Kinda like a forged look.