What is stonewash?

[coolbreezy37]

Lol, I’m pretty sure I also have T-shirts older than me!

 

[lmcq784]

Lol, I’m pretty I also have T-shirts older than me!

Hey, woah… just because you’re more youthful, no need to rub salt in our aging wounds and make the rest of us feel that much more inferior!

 

[dogboye]

Lol, I’m pretty I also have T-shirts older than me!

I'm glad you're pretty, although I'm not sure how that ties into you have t-shirts older than yourself. I ... uh... guess they were gifts?

Hey, woah… just because you’re more youthful, no need to rub salt in our aging wounds and make the rest of us feel that much more inferior!

I know, right? Young whippersnappers! Just have to be kicking us on our way down.

 

[Andy the Aussie]

Just a couple of days I was moving some stored stuff in the garage and found some pics of me from 1992....realised that while I was doing that reorganisation I was wearing the same T-shirt I had on in those pics...

 

[coolbreezy37]

Lol, I’m not pretty. I really need to double check my posts before I hit the reply button haha.

 

[lmcq784]

Lol, I’m not pretty. I really need to double check my posts before I hit the reply button haha.

No need to back peddle… you should probably apply when Busse is looking for a model.

Kidding aside, happens to all of us…. Especially those pesky autocorrect fails or Swype fails when posting from a/my phone.

 

[coolbreezy37]

I'm not sure how that ties into you have t-shirts older than yourself. I ... uh... guess they were gifts?

I guess you can call them gifts, vintage Harley T-shirts from my father.

 

[coolbreezy37]

No need to back peddle… you should probably apply when Busse is looking for a model.

Kidding aside, happens to all of us…. Especially those pesky autocorrect fails or Swype fails when posting from a/my phone.

I would model with any Busse knife all day long.

 

[dogboye]

Just a couple of days I was moving some stored stuff in the garage and found some pics of me from 1992....realised that while I was doing that reorganisation I was wearing the same T-shirt I had on in those pics...

At least you didn't outgrow it, as so many people often do.

 

[PeteyTwoPointOne]

Just a couple of days I was moving some stored stuff in the garage and found some pics of me from 1992....realised that while I was doing that reorganisation I was wearing the same T-shirt I had on in those pics...

Challenge accepted!...

so I just dug into the cedar chest and pulled on a royal blue t-shirt I wore in college 35 years ago--when I pulled it over my gut it changed from royal blue to powder blue and it's see-thru now.

 

[TENTEX]

Not to be confused with Acid Wash........

 

[Nemo1775]

Update: thanks to the members here I now have a working knowledge of what stonewash is, what fashions I missed out on by not being a teen in the '80s, and thanks to Busse I have rekindled my torrid love of daggers.

 

[Ryan28801]

Hey, woah… just because you’re more youthful, no need to rub salt in our aging wounds and make the rest of us feel that much more inferior!

BUT, with age, comes the opportunity to have been collecting some awesome blades for that much longer. I only discovered INFI after getting a new '07 SAR Game Warden as a partial debt payment, & I've been abusing it ever since. It took a couple of weeks of use to fully appreciate it, then I was HOOKED
No regrets!, BUT I deffinitely had some real gems pass thru my hands over the years since, that I'd love to find again

 

[JohnTheTexican]

Busse stonewash peaked in 1984 <Jerry's the one with dogtags> :

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I'm pretty sure Jerry was rockin' acid wash in '84.



But maybe a bit more on point, anyone have any experience with acid wash stonewash versus scrap satin for corrosion resistance on SR-101?

 

[Father & Son Traditional Sharpening]

Not sure if anybody said this yet but I'm going to anyways....

STONEWASHED finish is..... RAD!!

Interesting note on these Radio Active Duty's that were in a recent ganza, I was surprised to see that it appears these were stonewashed with the handles ATTACHED!

It makes for a handle that is almost entirely free of even the smallest of hotspots that the harder corners of the machining can leave behind.

The DCBB & BIG Double Cut finish's also seem to be done this way also, but are a bit different in the finished product and the double cut grips may have a bit more tackiness to them and the stonewashing leaves a more smoothed out feel.

See the last picture for the example of Double Cut from a Nuclear Radio Active Duty I scored, subtle difference but the stonewashed handle is more like taking a standard satin or coated handle and randomly hitting it with some sandpaper (if one were inclined to do something similar for users).

 

[Jaxx]

Busse stonewash peaked in 1984 <Jerry's the one with dogtags> :

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That would be acid washed Damn, the 80's were fun.. Gen X here...lol

 

[JohnTheTexican]

That would be acid washed Damn, the 80's were fun.. Gen X here...lol

Speaking of acid wash....