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willis

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I got an Eskabar for helping Moose out at the Spirit O steel show in Knoxville and the hoofed one also gave me a BK2 for me birthday.I have had them for5 mos. now and decided it was time to make them the color I like and thats just bare steel with whatever stains and colors it turns after use.I used spray on paint stripper and let soak for ten minutes and the black just scraped away with a cedar stick.

Moose had said that to get it looking like his took some sanding to remove the tool marks.I am just going to leave them on mine as they don't bug me.

I texted the hoofed bastid and said that it did not look a whole lot rougher than the finish on the Randall knives I have that are made from O-1.Though the two stainless ones I have show a more polished surface.

I am going to send Moose some pics and maybe he will talk me through the process of posting them here.

Did anyone else decide to leave the blade as is after strippin it?
 
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Yes.
 
All of my Beckers I stripped I had decided to knock down some of the grind marks. My BK11 and BK7 I ended up taking to a mirror polish. My BK9 I just went to 150 grit. I can tell a difference between stripped and full polish when it comes to batoning and just general less friction when going through different materials. I guess my BK2 I have not sanded some yet, just stripped.
 
I left the tool marks on my 7 and 9. Willis, I think we met you at SOS didn't we?
 
The biggest problem I had was getting the tool marks off the back of the spine -- looked like the ruler on my leatherman when I first stripped it. Got so sick of sanding I ended up using my course grit diamond stone, and now I've gotta figure out how to get all that black grit off the stone. I'm not always that bright :grumpy:
 
The tool marks are visible on ALL my Beckers except for the Patrol machete. Meh. Adds character I reckon and they're users anyway.
 
Tradewater I asked Moose about you and we did meet there.I remember your wife checking out an Eskabar that Moose had stripped the black from and had a 550 cord wrapped handle and when she tried to hand it back the hooved one told her to keep it.
 
willis said:
Tradewater I asked Moose about you and we did meet there.I remember your wife checking out an Eskabar that Moose had stripped the black from and had a 550 cord wrapped handle and when she tried to hand it back the hooved one told her to keep it.
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Yep, thought so.
 
Just get rid of that BK2 and get you a Mora #1 carbon, and be done with it.

Its all you need anyways.

:D

Moose
 
I got me a #1 ta other night but I think it is defective.I peeled an apple with it and the blade started to change color,must be a bad heat treat or something,I hope SMKW's will trade for a good one.I caught a whitefish once in the Big Hole river that was defective,it had a overgrown dorsal fin that looked like a big sail or something.
 
Man you've sure had some bad luck. Next your gonna say you went to mail a letter, but noticed the airplane on the stamp was printed upside down so you couldn't use it.
 
CCMI I ain't had no upside down stamps yet,but I did shoot what I thought was a duck and it turned out to be a guv'ment bird.I was so ashamed,but it was a hell of a shot and I will be the only kid on my block to have some soft hackled trout flies tied with genuine guv'ment bird hackles.
 
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