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Well after stripping about six Busse blades, I have always come to expect that blackish dull coating under the paint and lots of infi dimples when I get paint off.. usually hours of hand sanding is ahead of me to get the blade looking decent. This time was quite different. After using This SFNO for a couple of years, "I decided to make this one my user since it felt great in the hand with the handsmoothed tan canvas handles, and the "speckled desert camo IMO was just ugly, so why not use it" After some serious chopping through fallen trees to clear my farm yard, mainly by Batoning, I had lost quite a bit of paint on the spine, and the blade paint was beginning to wear down as well, so I decided that I would make this a "tactical" model by leaving the black/gray undercoating on and using it that way. HOWEVER, when I put the stripper on the blade and it began to roll up, I used my wooden wedge to remove the paint and instead of being the black/gray I had anticipated, there was a beautiful Satin finished blade.. As I took more and more off, there were no dimples, and even along the rear of the tang there was only bright shiney Satin... WoW! After I stripped it and washed it off, I was amazed at what I found underneath the paint, a beautiful Satin SFNO.. yes, there was some slight machine marks and the top of the spine did have the blackened look, but the pics here are after only a bit of polishing with chrome polish.. Makes me wonder if I'll ever come across one like this again, and what the deal was on it.
Here is before
and afterwards
Here is before
and afterwards
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