The easiest stripper I have ever met

Nemesis--great to get outdoors... more pics when the time comes! As for stripping, my TGLB was the toughest in terms of decarb; my Hell Razor was easier, bu the decarb was there. I have a custom shop GW whose coating is starting to wear off... it looks like I see clear grind likes beneath, so maybe no decarb. I want to spend a little extra time etching the logo before I give it a go... if I go with stripping.

Once again--you got a great ASH there buddy ;) She looks great stripped!
 
I have stripped double cut blades and it's true, you pick up the knife and sling the coating right off. I still despise double cut, take some oil on that camping trip the rust will come
 
Mine isn't double cut. That was Johns ASH I don't know why the quote boxes came up in my second post
 
What do you think, Nemesis--does it look like decarb is lurking under the coating? Id love to hear what you guys think.


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Aias I would say, based on my limited experience that that one will strip easily based on the size and grind, in the pic below I'd say the red area will be the cleanest underneath and what I didn't color over will have a little more decarb to get off but that's just a guess. Put some citristrip on it and find out!
 
Thanks--I plan to in the next couple days I think. I just want to take some time etching the logo--I don't want to lose that Busse custom shop mark if I can help it. I'll be sure to update!
 
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Thanks--I plan to in the next couple days I think. I just want to take some time etching the logo--I don't want to lose that Busse custom shop mark if I can help it. I'll be sure to update!
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I wish I knew how to do that and had access to the acid. I have thought about sending them to Busse and having the logo redone once I have a few to send in at once. I have heard that they will do that but have never confirmed it with Busse
 
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What do you think, Nemesis--does it look like decarb is lurking under the coating? Id love to hear what you guys think.


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In my experience, a beatdown coating removal takes a bit of decarb with it. When I stripped a chopper I used to own, there was a telltale outline where the coating had been beaten off and where the coating still remained. No decarb on the non coated from a beating portion. YMMV. Also if that's a saber grind or full flat even, I agree that the ground portion will be significantly cleaner, and the flat area will be dimply.
 
Nemesis--I have the big bottle of ferric chloride that one can get at Radio Shack or on-line. Sometimes a make a little dam with epoxy, or in this case, taped off the blade where the coating was missing and placed a cotton ball soaked with the stuff on the logo. This is my first time using this latter method--lets see how it turns out.

Tinfoil Tim--it is a high saber type grind and a swedge cut into part of the spine... we shall see what lies beneath! My Hell Razor is smooth on the saber and dimply on the flats. I'll be posting pics in the next few days.

Thanks guys
 
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OK--admittedly, a very quick job of etching, stripping, and sanding--when the coating came off, it looked like decarb beneath at first, but was a lighter grey than usual... so I sanded with 400 grit (I think) sandpaper, then very fine stuff (1000-1500 grit), and this was the outcome:
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I'll work on it a bit more this week--but pretty good for now.
 
That's a Game Warden, custom. My wife bought it off eBay; the seller happens to be a member here (a good guy, by my estimation)... the GW was a Father's Day gift. It has proved to be a very useful knife.

Anthony
 
Aias said:
That's a Game Warden, custom. My wife bought it off eBay; the seller happens to be a member here (a good guy, by my estimation)... the GW was a Father's Day gift. It has proved to be a very useful knife.

Anthony
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Very cool, busse gifts are the best kind
 
I put the dssf through a little food prep test this morning and it performed quite well slicing and chopping veggies and meat. I am very happy with this blade so far

 
Sweet looking blade man--since I do most of the cooking at home, I use my GW and Hell Razor for food prep too. They are just too cool to leave lying around unused. There is nothing quite like the looks on guests faces when the Hell Razor comes out to carve meat just off the grill!
 
Aias said:
Sweet looking blade man--since I do most of the cooking at home, I use my GW and Hell Razor for food prep too. They are just too cool to leave lying around unused. There is nothing quite like the looks on guests faces when the Hell Razor comes out to carve meat just off the grill!
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I have some pretty nice kitchen knives and don't use my field knives in the kitchen regularly but when I first get a knife it is one of my initial tests for the knife, better to find out in the kitchen that it sucks at food prep than after the hike in camping. The hell razor is a superb knife in all regards, I recently sold mine in a momentary lapse of knife collecting clarity and it will be replaced asap...this pic was right after getting it last fall, helping the wife make apple pies for thanksgiving
 
Here's that GW after a little more sanding as a few minutes with a buffing wheel and green compound (on my bench grinder).
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