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I can't stand the black coating on some of my knives! It's just icky.
My latest victim is an Emerson Commander that I picked up CHEAP from a fellow forumite under the belief that it was used and scratched up. I purchased the knife just to do this project. When I got the knife, I was suprised. The scratches were just rubs or residue on the black coating. It didn't look like anything that some lighter fluid and a paper towel wouldn't take care of. I had second thoughts about attacking this one, but figured, "What the heck, I've already planned for it." So I sat down with a small screwdriver, my good old Scotchbrite pad (the brownish one this time), some 800 grit sandpaper, and a wet paper towel.
The Nimravus I did last year was a lot easier than this thing. The coating came off of the Commander about as easy as it did from the Nimravus, but there were more nooks and crannies and parts to play with on the Commander. The screw heads weren't fun and the clip was an absolute bear. The thumbdisk was just polished on the top and bottom as I would have had to use abrasive dental floss to get into the checkering. Anyway...after about 2 hours , here is the end result:
<center><img src=http://albums.photopoint.com/j/View?u=33630&a=208307&p=19745069&Sequence=0></center>
<center>AND...</center>
<center><img src=http://albums.photopoint.com/j/View?u=33630&a=208307&p=19745071&Sequence=0></center>
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"Resistance to sudden violence, for the preservation not only of my person, my limbs, and life, but of my property, is an indisputable right of nature which I have never surrendered to the public by the compact of society, and which perhaps, I could not surrender if I would."
--- John Adams, Boston Gazette, Sept. 5, 1763
My latest victim is an Emerson Commander that I picked up CHEAP from a fellow forumite under the belief that it was used and scratched up. I purchased the knife just to do this project. When I got the knife, I was suprised. The scratches were just rubs or residue on the black coating. It didn't look like anything that some lighter fluid and a paper towel wouldn't take care of. I had second thoughts about attacking this one, but figured, "What the heck, I've already planned for it." So I sat down with a small screwdriver, my good old Scotchbrite pad (the brownish one this time), some 800 grit sandpaper, and a wet paper towel.
The Nimravus I did last year was a lot easier than this thing. The coating came off of the Commander about as easy as it did from the Nimravus, but there were more nooks and crannies and parts to play with on the Commander. The screw heads weren't fun and the clip was an absolute bear. The thumbdisk was just polished on the top and bottom as I would have had to use abrasive dental floss to get into the checkering. Anyway...after about 2 hours , here is the end result:
<center><img src=http://albums.photopoint.com/j/View?u=33630&a=208307&p=19745069&Sequence=0></center>
<center>AND...</center>
<center><img src=http://albums.photopoint.com/j/View?u=33630&a=208307&p=19745071&Sequence=0></center>
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"Resistance to sudden violence, for the preservation not only of my person, my limbs, and life, but of my property, is an indisputable right of nature which I have never surrendered to the public by the compact of society, and which perhaps, I could not surrender if I would."
--- John Adams, Boston Gazette, Sept. 5, 1763
