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Before (yesterday)


After cutting a few strawberries, one red pepper, and one apple



I thought i was going to have to work to put the patina on. Boy was i wrong, the patin showed almost instantly

Jazz wrote:patinas - panties

- best wishes, Jazz.

D'oh!

I recently had a change of heart about this whole patina business, had been using the SB in the kitchen for a while now, my girlfriend cut some bacon up the other night, and didn't clean it :rolleyes: .
I got home from work the next day and found some rust spots forming, we keep it in the open position on a magnetic holder, I went to close it and also noticed rust under the handle near the pivot, so of course I immediately disassembled it and took to it with the scotch brite. It had started pitting in a few small spots, so Im glad I caught it when I did to avoid any more damage.
Spent all night sanding and polishing it by hand, could still use a few more hours with the mother's to get the finer scratches out, but you get the idea.
I was probably a bit naive about it, but superblue owners you have been warned, patina is corrosion !

Update!

DCDesigns wrote:Natural patina from food prep on my work in progress Super Blue Mule. :



My SINISTER Gayle Bradley, with forced dark patina and rough stone wash:



What it looked like before I decided to go with the darker blade: Forced mustard patina, not too crazy about it:




I LOVE A GOOD PATINA Its one of the reasons why Im starting to really like non stainless steels!

Funny you didn't like the Mustard patina, thats the first example that looked good to me.

this thread is so damm cool. I looovvve the old tymer look w/no orange scale... pappaw was right..nothin' like HC steels...nothin' baby

almost makes me wanna wrap bamboo in soaked tatami and start dissection procedures...ALMOST!!

Onions work great for a dark quick patina, but ive never made a ggmbo w/o a aquasalt..so i dont know...

Clip wrote:

like the rainbow look

I finally forced a patina on my Super Blue Caly 3.5. It was starting to patina just from carrying it, but it was uneven. So, I did this...

I like how it turned out. :)

Here's an updated (crappy cellphone) pic of my SB Caly 3.5.

At one point I polished the edge, but that only lasts until it is used.



Over a month on this edge and with minimal stropping, it is still plenty sharp.

Removed my patina and mirror polished the knife so I could go through the joy of doing a patina again :)

I cut some rhubarb once with an AUS 8 blade, and it stained pretty good. Y'all might want to try some.

No pics, but I love the steely look that ZDP gets after a while. My Delica's looking pretty nice.

- best wishes, Jazz.

Rhubarb puts instant patina on carbon steel. Nothing comes close to it.
I don't force patina, but I do cut rhubarb!

heres my polished caly, cut up an apple and already have a good stain :D

Love seeing some Spyderco's with petina. I have been trying and trying. what are you using?? i am only able to petina my carbon blades ie: opinel and such.

Just finished this one today. I think it came out OK for a first time :)
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My Opinel no7
If you look close, he looks like a sly, swimming, smirking shark! (the nail nick being the eye)