stjones
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I was up at Tyrade83s today playing with his Belt grinder and decided to try my hand at a satin finish. I had previously stripped it and it was kind of rough.
I put about an hour of hand rubbing into it with 220 and then 420 grit wet/dry automotive paper. Now while I knew I wasn't going for a perfect satin, more ghetto and rough, I quickly realized this is gonna be to much work by hand!!
So off the Tyrade's I go!!
Wasn't long and I had it looking much better!!
This side of the blade has some big marks but that's fine with me!!
I also cleaned up the previous owners swedge and evened it out.
The felt line is where I plan to butt grind it. Wasn't wuite ready to try my hand with that yet. I'll wait for Tyrade to help!!
This is what it may look like though!!
And here with a Dog Skinner (my Safari Skinner isn't here yet
)
Weiler is on top comparing to factory swedge on a FFBM.
This is my first attempt at trying a satin finish with a belt grinder or mods other than etch/strip and I'm pretty happy with how it turned out. I'll probably try some over knives at some point.
**COMPLETED**
Finally getting pics up of the completed knife with the butt mod and a Ferric Chloride bath. I started with multiple soaks in boiling vinegar and it got quite dark but not quite what I was looking for so I decided to try multiple soaks in Ferric Chloride with cool water scrubs between soaks.
These pics are after stabbing a cedar round and cutting chicken that caused patina on the satin edge and left some spots.
I put about an hour of hand rubbing into it with 220 and then 420 grit wet/dry automotive paper. Now while I knew I wasn't going for a perfect satin, more ghetto and rough, I quickly realized this is gonna be to much work by hand!!
So off the Tyrade's I go!!
Wasn't long and I had it looking much better!!
This side of the blade has some big marks but that's fine with me!!
I also cleaned up the previous owners swedge and evened it out.
The felt line is where I plan to butt grind it. Wasn't wuite ready to try my hand with that yet. I'll wait for Tyrade to help!!
This is what it may look like though!!
And here with a Dog Skinner (my Safari Skinner isn't here yet
)
Weiler is on top comparing to factory swedge on a FFBM.
This is my first attempt at trying a satin finish with a belt grinder or mods other than etch/strip and I'm pretty happy with how it turned out. I'll probably try some over knives at some point.
**COMPLETED**
Finally getting pics up of the completed knife with the butt mod and a Ferric Chloride bath. I started with multiple soaks in boiling vinegar and it got quite dark but not quite what I was looking for so I decided to try multiple soaks in Ferric Chloride with cool water scrubs between soaks.
These pics are after stabbing a cedar round and cutting chicken that caused patina on the satin edge and left some spots.
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It sure changes that beast!!! :thumbup: