Experience with rit color remover on FRN?

[hobbyist]

Has anyone removed the dye from their FRN? How did it go?

Would rit dye remover be ok to use with the blade still attached for 20CV, M390, and LC200N? I dyed them with the blade intact…

[Capt'n Boatsalot]

Has anyone removed the dye from their FRN? How did it go?

Would rit dye remover be ok to use with the blade still attached for 20CV, M390, and LC200N? I dyed them with the blade intact…

Yes that has worked fine for me in the past. I used rit dye on a burnt orange HAP40 Delica, and then later undid it with the remover. The Delica was back to normal, although probably a bit darker. I'm actually going to do the same to my Native Chief hopefully tomorrow. In both cases, this has been done with the clip removed but the blade still in the assembly.

Hope it works well for you!

[hobbyist]

Has anyone removed the dye from their FRN? How did it go?

Would rit dye remover be ok to use with the blade still attached for 20CV, M390, and LC200N? I dyed them with the blade intact…

Yes that has worked fine for me in the past. I used rit dye on a burnt orange HAP40 Delica, and then later undid it with the remover. The Delica was back to normal, although probably a bit darker. I'm actually going to do the same to my Native Chief hopefully tomorrow. In both cases, this has been done with the clip removed but the blade still in the assembly.

Hope it works well for you!

Thanks! What process do you use? Just let it sit in the boiling water? For how long? Anything to do to prevent the knife from touching the bottom of the pot?

[Capt'n Boatsalot]

Has anyone removed the dye from their FRN? How did it go?

Would rit dye remover be ok to use with the blade still attached for 20CV, M390, and LC200N? I dyed them with the blade intact…

Yes that has worked fine for me in the past. I used rit dye on a burnt orange HAP40 Delica, and then later undid it with the remover. The Delica was back to normal, although probably a bit darker. I'm actually going to do the same to my Native Chief hopefully tomorrow. In both cases, this has been done with the clip removed but the blade still in the assembly.

Hope it works well for you!

Thanks! What process do you use? Just let it sit in the boiling water? For how long? Anything to do to prevent the knife from touching the bottom of the pot?

I pretty much follow the box instructions. But as I recall... Put the remover in a small sauce pan, and bring to a low boil (or maybe it was just short of a boil...whatever the box says). I do elevate the knife off the bottom of the pan with silverware or a wrench or something. I tie a string through the blade (yet ANOTHER benefit of the Spydie hole). I then leave it in the drink for maybe 5 minutes, and pull it out occasionally until the shade is back to what I want. I might have done it twice.

I will see if I can find some before and after photos.

Edit. I found a photo. The dragonfly is the original color. The Delica has the rit dye remover applied, and as you can see it is very close to the dragonfly. Hope that helps.




Edit2: The Delica lower right in this photo is the same knife right after I had dyed it. So it went from practically black back to burnt orange with the remover.

[hobbyist]

Amazing thank you

[hobbyist]

I tried it out. Followed the instructions, which had me boil for 20 minutes.

Did a decent job.

* The salt 2 with the clip is here for reference. The knife next to it was a salt 2 dyed black. Quite obviously still darker, but it still looks green so I'm happy.

* The one on the left was an M390 Bento Box delica, dyed black. I think this one is pretty close.

* The dragonfly was a surprise. This one was the DLTTrading 20cv Red/Black zome. I am in the camp that isn't generally a massive fan of zome, so I dyed it black. To my surprise, the zome came off with it, and I'm absolutely thrilled with the shade of red that remains here. I didn't realize the zome due would come off. Now I wish I'd kept my endela and delica in this color! (DLT if you're listening, please do another run!)

I did the dye removal with the clips removed, but the knives otherwise in tact. These are all stainless steels, and everything came out fine. I used a steaming tray in the pot of water so the knives wouldn't touch the bottom of the pot which was on an open flame.

I rinsed under tap water for quite a while afterwards. I let them air dry fully, then re-oiled with KPL around the contact points with the lock bar.

[Jeb]

Guys, just want to say your really pushing the envelope ijmo here, by putting the blades in boiling water...

I tear my knives all down and only the plastic goes in the bath. I fear your going to get into the tempering of the blade and jeopardize its ability to hold an edge as well.

Then there is the really small sized hardware that our knives are put together with, I fear they too; could take a hit from being in the bath of 210 degree solution.

Not trying to rain on you guys, just my old school way of doing things... Nothing else, something to think about, from another view...

I just also figure there would be some of that liquid in those small hardware components that hold the knives together. They are not designed to be Waterproof. They will take longer to dry out being a blind hole design.

[Evil D]

Not with FRN but many times with G10. It removes the dye well enough to redye but not well enough that it's like you never dyed it, so not back to brand new color.


As for boiling the whole knife, yeah I wouldn't do that. Heat risks aside, you really need to take the scales off and scrub and degrease them thoroughly so your dye soaks in evenly, and a clip or screw making contact with the surface can get in the way. I bought a cheap sauce pan (actually an old pressure cooker) from Goodwill and I bent a coat hanger into a little tray that sits in the bottom of the pan so I can dip and pull them out. I don't even like tying string around them for dying.

[TkoK83Spy]

Guys, just want to say your really pushing the envelope ijmo here, by putting the blades in boiling water...

I tear my knives all down and only the plastic goes in the bath. I fear your going to get into the tempering of the blade and jeopardize its ability to hold an edge as well.

Then there is the really small sized hardware that our knives are put together with, I fear they too; could take a hit from being in the bath of 210 degree solution.

Not trying to rain on you guys, just my old school way of doing things... Nothing else, something to think about, from another view...

I just also figure there would be some of that liquid in those small hardware components that hold the knives together. They are not designed to be Waterproof. They will take longer to dry out being a blind hole design.

Blades are tempered at a much higher temperature than 210 degrees.

[Jeb]

Yes I am aware of that, but I still would not boil water and drop my blades in it. Just say'n

[40mm]

Had no idea Rit Dye remover even existed! Good to know!