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Ahh...thankyou Stew. I thought those were the same but wasn't sure. Thanks for setting me straight.

My first experience with ferric acid :



It is very crappy, but I'll try a stonewash on it, and then I'll see how it gets :o

It doesn't look like much was done, but this Ti Lum had a scratch on the blade and a ding on the spine when I got it from a member on the BF. I lightly tumbled the blade and scales, slightly rounded the spine, and polished the edge.

I used the wire brush dremel tool to take the paint off the clip, then torched it in a few places


then the usual ziptie

vadel wrote:Modded Military CTS-XHP

- black painted spacer >>> normal backspacers with modern design and very high-tech looking

- torx-6 >>> good torx-9. slightly polished. better look, no more chance to break screws
- new (better quality) screws for clip. slightly polished

If you don't mind saying, what torx 9 did you use and what size standoffs to replce the back spacer?
And where did you get the hardware? knife kits?
Thank you

DCDesigns wrote:Id be interested in how your attempts go with the leather scales andreas. Sounds interesting. I know someone who makes 1911 grips out of snakeskin. its pretty cool! :cool:

Jazz wrote:Please show your results with the leather, if you don't mind. Sounds really interesting. :cool:

- best wishes, Jazz.

Your request is my demand.



A few things I have to say about it:
the leather is about 2 millimeters thick which is just perfect for Persistence handle scales, but it's not a hard material like G-10 is. The blade has a lot of play at the moment, simply because I can't get the pivot screw tight enough. Also, you can kind of see the holes of the liners through the leather because it's dented there. The leather does wear nicely I must say.
I have tried hardening the leather, without good results. Yes, the leather gets harder but it also gets thinner or shrinks to where the scale is too small, etc. I think I'll need to buy some heavy duty, really thick and sturdy belt leather to make it really work.

Conclusion: it looks really nice, doesn't work at all.

BTW, it has been a while, been busy with other stuff, you know how that goes. I hope to have some free time between Christmas and New Year's Eve for some more experimenting.

raggasonic wrote:My first experience with ferric acid :



It is very crappy, but I'll try a stonewash on it, and then I'll see how it gets :o

That is looking really nice!! Are you going to stonewash it to??
Would Ferric Acid work on H1 steel?? Since this is rust resistance and is missing the carbon in the steel?!

Andreas wrote:Your request is my demand.



A few things I have to say about it:
the leather is about 2 millimeters thick which is just perfect for Persistence handle scales, but it's not a hard material like G-10 is. The blade has a lot of play at the moment, simply because I can't get the pivot screw tight enough. Also, you can kind of see the holes of the liners through the leather because it's dented there. The leather does wear nicely I must say.
I have tried hardening the leather, without good results. Yes, the leather gets harder but it also gets thinner or shrinks to where the scale is too small, etc. I think I'll need to buy some heavy duty, really thick and sturdy belt leather to make it really work.

Conclusion: it looks really nice, doesn't work at all.

BTW, it has been a while, been busy with other stuff, you know how that goes. I hope to have some free time between Christmas and New Year's Eve for some more experimenting.

Thanks for the picture. That's really different and interesting. Looks comfortable. As for getting the blade tight, what about washers and cutting the leather around them?

- best wishes, Jazz.

The_Bart_Man wrote:That is looking really nice!! Are you going to stonewash it to??
Would Ferric Acid work on H1 steel?? Since this is rust resistance and is missing the carbon in the steel?!

Thanks for the kind words.
But for me it's far from perfect, there are darker areas on the blade, but I just wanted to try, so...
I really think I'm gonna stonewash it because I think it'll look better, and because I've never experienced stonewash :D

I really don't know about ferric acid on H1.

Jazz wrote:Thanks for the picture. That's really different and interesting. Looks comfortable. As for getting the blade tight, what about washers and cutting the leather around them?

- best wishes, Jazz.

That's a good idea you got there. I'll see if I manage, definitely going to try it.

My Chinook Junior... :rolleyes:

gmcsuja wrote:My Chinook Junior... :D

Nice! Great job!

Thanks. I'll try this post again...

orange rit dye, but looks red :o

gmcsuja wrote:My Chinook Junior... :D

NICE! ...and welcome to the forum. You gotta love a clip point blade. Nice job. :cool:

- best wishes, Jazz.

kens73 wrote:

orange rit dye, but looks red :o

And another NICE! Gorgeous shade of red. Seriously nice - thanks for sharing.

- best wishes, Jazz.

kens73 wrote:

orange rit dye, but looks red :o

What color was that when you started?
Foliage green?

Love that color!

RoBoTech wrote:What color was that when you started?
Foliage green?

I think that's a Super Blue.

Regardless, it looks absolutely killer and I'm curious how it was done considering it's a Pin construction knife.

Probably a bad idea to say it is super blue... because he was asking what color it was. It was Gray.