Treat me like i'm a Stripping idiot!

[TheDandyLion]

Hey BladeForums I recently came upon some money and bought my self some brand new Beckers! and if any of you have bought any of the new ones from KA-BAR but there are a few difference most notably a new finish. Keep in mind i have had a BK-7 for over a year now and its finish is smooth slightly glossy and IMHO pretty durable.But KA-BAR changed this good smooth low-friction finish for a rough, crumbly, abrasive and over all poor new finish:barf: so i'm going to strip the blades of it completely,and i have no idea how to...

So i hoped to enlist the great wisdom of the blade forums to help me do this, step by step from the beginning. I have now prior experience stripping knives but do have an expansive local hardware store and a decent knowledge of solvents and a lot of tools I know how to use.thank you for your help!

 

[ShenKichin]

Hopefully this will help.
[video=youtube;kV8cDsWG54w]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kV8cDsWG54w[/video]

 

[bdmicarta]

I bought a new BK-11 a couple of months ago and immediately stripped it. I dosed it with some of my wife's paint stripper and let it set an hour. Some of the coating on the blade bubbled up but most didn't. I scraped some of it off with a plastic scraper but had to work harder for the rest. I could scrape up a little edge of the coating then I would hold the edge and peel off some of it. I had to work at it but finally got it all off. I actually coated mine with some cheap cold blue but there are lots of different ways to get a patina that are discussed here.