What's on my jigged bone scales?

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This might be better off in the maintenance forum, but I figured you guys would have more experience with traditionals and how they age.

After over six months of searching, I finally found a new in box 2010 Case Sway Back with jigged chestnut bone scales and CV steel!

Unfortunately, there seems to be some sort of gray "stuff" in the grooves of the scales where they have been jigged. Does any one know what it is? Is it a natural oxidation? A growth of some sort? Safe to remove? Advice on how to remove?

Here are a couple pics of what I'm talking about (sorry, I didn't realize they were blurry until blowing them up). The knife on top is the new knife with the gray stuff. The knife on the bottom is a used Case Sway Back that I purchased here on the forums just a while ago and doesn't seem to suffer from the issue.


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it looks like residual polishing compound.

you could scrub it with a soap and sponge , or an alcohol pad, but it will wear off.

nice knife.
 
Your question has been answered, it's buffing compound and can be removed with a toothbrush and water, but WOW the jiggin and color on those scales are absolutely incredible!
 
knifeswapper said:
Buff compound
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Elgatodeacero said:
it looks like residual polishing compound.

you could scrub it with a soap and sponge , or an alcohol pad, but it will wear off.

nice knife.
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Matt_WY said:
Could be some polish residue. I would hit it with a toothbrush and warm soapy water and see if that cleans it up.
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Excellent! Better than I was hoping for. :D The buffing compound that was left on a few of my other knives was much darker than this so it threw me for a loop.
 
I agree its buffing compound. WD40 on a q tip works and so does carwax with an old toothbrush. Lots of good ways of dealing with it above too. I'd avoid anything like acetone, ya'd probably take some of the color out too.
 
kamagong said:
Who are you and what have you done with the real Will Power? ;) He hates patina!
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Ha ha! :D There's patina and there's patina...;) To be honest stainless is always preferable. However, not all carbons appear to patina equally: CASE's cv soon adopts an even colour, not spotting or RUST:eek: whereas GEC's is more debatable. It could simply be that CASE cv is highly polished and the Tidioute GEC carbon spots, pits and streaks a lot more? I don't know but it seems to be my experience.... What can you do when the Traditional World is so carbocentric......?

I can put up with this mind..;)

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Nice one Paul! Glad you enjoy it:cool:

As for patina, most of my carbon knives are canvases of rust :D:eek:
 
I hit the new Sway Back with some lemon oil (edit) and a q-tip. I still have a bit of gunk to clean out, but as you can see... It's coming along nicely!

I'm so stoked on this knife.

Thanks for the help and advice everyone!

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Fixall Fixall The recommendation was for Lemon Oil, you said you used Lemon juice which is vey acidic...will clean the bone but may bleach it a bit....will give blade patina too:cool:

End result looks good though:thumbsup:
 
Will Power said:
Fixall Fixall The recommendation was for Lemon Oil, you said you used Lemon juice which is vey acidic...will clean the bone but may bleach it a bit....will give blade patina too:cool:

End result looks good though:thumbsup:
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Lol! I actually used lemon oil and not lemon juice (that's where all that shine is coming from). I had just finished polishing the coffee table so I had it on hand. Not sure why I typed lemon juice, lol.
 
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