The mystery of patina....

Just cut up a small cucumber from my indoor "Salad Pot" container garden in the sunroom (cucumbers, Genovese basil, yellow and red cherry tomatoes) with the small pen blade on my Boker whittler, the cuke was delicious, crispy and you couldn't get any fresher than just picked

I cut the cuke into slices, wiped down the blade, and repocketed it

the pen blade now is much darker, with a rich purplish-black overtone, looks like cukes are good for reinforcing patina as well
 
Any of the onion family gives a very nice blue violet tinge to new carbon.

I like both patina and shiny knives but shiny is WHY stainless was invented after all!
 
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