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Well I blame you guys...

clich said:
The major way to ruin it is not protecting the edge. The reaction really loves to walk around the blade especially to areas that arent blued. So there were a few times that the edge gets eaten away. Also just patterns. I like to try new blue patterns and angles to soak the knife to get different looks and sometime your idea doesn't come out how you want . Since its permanent your kinda stuck with it. And things like oil from fingerprints can screw up what was going to be a sweet design.
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What have you found to be the way to protect the edge?
 
It's a BNG (Becker New Guy)!

Welcome! You say you're a learning sponge? Well, that is awesome because there is so much stuff to learn here...and not just in the Becker sub-forum, but in BladeForums in general. Hope to see you stick around for awhile!
 
Streetdog said:
What have you found to be the way to protect the edge?
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Vaseline, carmex, or good tape. i personally like vaseline or carmex since it doesn't give a straight line where the parts you want etched and those you don't, meet. Since I'm going for an antique look, I don't want crisp edges. I use the same stuff just to do the flats as well. Just cover everything well, you don't want etched, in vaseline.
 
i'll be a BNG in t-minus 7 days :P i'm getting the bk2 and the bk11. then when i have more money that i can blow on more beckers im getting the machaxe! cant wait!!!!
 
Welcome! Glad to have you here.

Never heard anything bad about a Becker huh? Well the sheaths suck :eek:





:D (just a running joke around here fyi, I actually am fine with the sheaths)
 
First, welcome

Second, oh good lord we are NOT calling this ''thrillbillying''!!!! Absolutely NOT....

Thirdly, you say ''when you get back to the States'' so if that means you're active military, I'd like to thank you for your service.



It's a fun addiction...and cheaper then some addictions! Hope you don't think you're gonna stop with a 9 and 2 LOL
 
CCMI said:
Never heard anything bad about a Becker huh? Well the sheaths suck :eek:
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I have heard the sheaths suck but I don't count sheaths in the grand scheme of things. I can replace a sheath a lot easier than I can replace a knife. Besided I have never heard of anybody chopping with the sheath ;)
 
thrillbilly said:
First, welcome

Second, oh good lord we are NOT calling this ''thrillbillying''!!!! Absolutely NOT....

Thirdly, you say ''when you get back to the States'' so if that means you're active military, I'd like to thank you for your service.

It's a fun addiction...and cheaper then some addictions! Hope you don't think you're gonna stop with a 9 and 2 LOL
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First, thanks for the welcome. Second, I think thrillbillying would be a GREAT name ;)
Yes I have been in for about 11 years, I'm deployed right now so when I get back I'm buying knives...and a grinder...and...kydex stuff....and paint stripper...and...etchant...and blueing....and....and.....
I'm pretty sure it will just be the 9 and the 2. I actually don't collect knives and I plan on getting into making knives as well so I'm probably not going to be buying a whole lot of kinves. I know this may be some kind of heresy and if so, my gods I'm sorry, but I don't typically buy knives I'm not going to use or will use very little. I tend to stick to a few knives that I like and either gift or sell the ones that don't measure up to what I'm used to. The only knife that changes regularly is my EDC pocket knife but my field knife is either my CS SRK or Benchmade Nimravus. I love those two knives.
 
Welcome to the party. I'm still relatively new to the forum myself, with no street cred whatsoever and most people have been very welcoming. Hope you stick around, there is a lot to learn here. I started with a BK2 now have an 11 and a 16 and my sights are on a 9 or a 5 next.
 
Streetdog said:
Is it the actual process you don't like or the term itself?
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The term. I didn't used to like the process, but has since grown on me some. They were teasing me about calling a clipped BK2 "Warriorizing", but, hopefully, they were doing just that, kidding. ;) I certainly didn't invent clipping a blade, lol. Perhaps the first to do it on a BK2, but certainly didn't invent it.
 
The Warrior said:
The term. I didn't used to like the process, but has since grown on me some. They were teasing me about calling a clipped BK2 "Warriorizing", but, hopefully, they were doing just that, kidding. ;) I certainly didn't invent clipping a blade, lol. Perhaps the first to do it on a BK2, but certainly didn't invent it.
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Excellent, another term I can add to my vocabulary. Cliching for putting a patina on a blade and warriorizing for when I reprofile a blade...thanks Warrior :)
 
Aloha Streetdog :D I'm new here too and it's like "drinking from a fire hose". You're going to trip when you get some of these blades in your hand - and they will multiply!
TTYL and Thanks for your service.

CamH_16 - LOL!!! great imagery over here! wow, yeah!
 
Well we need something catchy to call it....I'm thinking.....blue.bleaching is too long and aint as catchy as ''Cliching'' is.

I kinda like bleach-bathing.
 
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