Titanium Marks

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pce

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Gentlemen,
I have just obtained a used small micarta sebbie that I wish to carry without the pocket clip. Do any of you CRK experts have any suggestions for removing or minimising the wear/rub mark on the lock bar caused by the clip? Whilst the knife had not been heavily used the wear/rub mark is quite evident as a "shiny" mark on the matt Ti.
I appreciate that I could send it back to CRK but as I live in Oz that is not worth the effort for something so minor on a knife I am using daily and recognise will accumulate minor scuff marks.
I can happily live with the wear mark but would prefer if there was a simple way of reducing its appearance.
Thanks in advance for any helpful suggestions.
pce

PS What a great knife it is!
 
When I got my umnumzaan in a trade, it was used and had some scuffs on the TI handle slabs. I got some 0000 steel wool I use for my woodworking finishing projects and went over the TI slabs. When I was done, you could not see any of the scuffs and one was a shinny scuff like you stated. The 0000 steel wool worked wonders on my zaan, it was good as new when I was done. I went over the whole knife, clip and all.
 
You can get it bead blasted at just about any car body shop and some machine shops, that will "cover" it totally. You just have to mask the areas you don't want redone, like the lock face and micarta, although bead blasted micarta actually looks really good IMO.
 
If you're really worried about future marks, carry it in a leather slip.
 
nyefmaker said:
When I got my umnumzaan in a trade, it was used and had some scuffs on the TI handle slabs. I got some 0000 steel wool I use for my woodworking finishing projects and went over the TI slabs. When I was done, you could not see any of the scuffs and one was a shinny scuff like you stated. The 0000 steel wool worked wonders on my zaan, it was good as new when I was done. I went over the whole knife, clip and all.
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Interesting, I would not have guessed that you could blend that with the BB finish - good info!
 
Sand blasting would be better than bead blasting. If you could get someone to anodize your Titanium parts, they would be much more resistant to future scratches. My Sebenza looks like it has been dragged behind a truck. My Camillus CUDA MAXX which I EDC with change in my pocket, looks like new because it has been anodized.
 
If you are going to carry & use your Sebenza then its going to get all scrathed all over. So unless you change the finish its going to looka lot worse. If its going in display than use nyefmaker's suggstion.
 
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