M4, Superblue? Your patination tips and pics.

[xavierdoc]

Let's see some patination, baby!

I have been at pains to keep my GB stain free but I've let my other carbon spydies develop a patina (or I've forced it). Would love to see either natural or forced patinas plus tips on how they were achieved.

[xceptnl]

Love the patinas. I have several carbon steel blades, however I have not let them start to turn yet. I look forward to seeing others replies though. Great Thread!

[knives_r'us]

Can you remove that patina from the blade?

[syphen]

Non of my M4 blades have been used enough or exposed to patina-inducing environments..

Some Superblue and copper though:

[eloreno]

[dbcad]

I prefer to let Super Blue patina naturally. Anything acidic that you cut will create a patina very quickly, in minutes or less. It's neat to see the way the patina evolves :) I think I can trace the latest dark streaks to lemons cut last week

[razorsharp]

I should have repolished the edge :p :D

gotta love how the blade gets the colour people wanted the handle to be :p

[dbcad]

It does make for a nice contrast :) I should do the same :)

[Zenith]

No tips or tricks sorry, just use on site:


Have a GB on the way so when it arrives give me a month and it should look the same.

[xavierdoc]

Sweet pics!

@Eloreno -how's that regrind working out?

[eloreno]

Doc,

It's working out beautifully! I much prefer the regrinds. When it comes to cutting, nothing comes close to a nice thin regrind. If I could afford it, most of my spydies would get thinned.

[Rockcrawler]

I have been fighting the patina-ing on my caly superblue but I thing you all changed my mind. How does one make a patina without created rust? The little bit my caly SB did patina turned a orange hue. That was from slicing jalapeños.

[lambertiana]

My SB Caly 3.5 has developed a nice patina from cutting fruit. Apples seem to work the best. Cutting meat, especially if it has barbecue sauce on it, also works well. I like a natural honest patina, not forced.

[razorsharp]

I have been fighting the patina-ing on my caly superblue but I thing you all changed my mind. How does one make a patina without created rust? The little bit my caly SB did patina turned a orange hue. That was from slicing jalapeños.

regular cutting will patina before it rusts it. That was normal patina, rust would have been a bit different

[Rockcrawler]

regular cutting will patina before it rusts it. That was normal patina, rust would have been a bit different

Ah thanks, now that I think about it, rust I see on mild steel for welding and my jeep parts from off roading is much deeper in color / penetration and sorta flakes.

Gonna keep the superblue patina going! More pepper slicing!

[xceptnl]

...gotta love how the blade gets the colour people wanted the handle to be :p

It is a beautiful color. I bet it would look terrific with white G-10 slabs. Hmmmm!

[Orion's Belt]

I've cut all types of acidic fruits and stuff with my GB and there's no trace of patina. I think the previous owner put some Tuff Glide on it. Time will tell if it will ever develop a patina or not.

[jackknifeh]

I've cut all types of acidic fruits and stuff with my GB and there's no trace of patina. I think the previous owner put some Tuff Glide on it. Time will tell if it will ever develop a patina or not.

I put Tuf-Glide on my Manix2 when I first got it. Tuf-Glide lasts a long time but not forever. I'm guessing you would want to apply it every couple of months or so to be sure to keep it protected. I tried to patina my Manix and was unsuccessful. I barely had any color change after hours of mustard, vinigar, potato, etc. Industrial strength solvent is supposed to remove Tuf-Glide. I used gun bore solvent. I still didn't get anything like people are getting judging by the pictures I've seen. In the daylight though the patina shows up nicely but indoors, it's barely visible. I only wanted patina to help prevent corrosion. My patina is on the tang also. I like that because hidden areas are suseptable to corrosion without notice. I do like the looks of it and tried to get a deeper patina on the blade but no luck so far. For the moment I've given up unless someone can come up with something I haven't tried.

Jack

[hunterseeker5]

I've found the best way to get a patina on something that has been tuf-glided is to put it in something like Evaporust. Its mildly acidic, so it'll etch it, and the chelation agent will strip the molybdenum disulfide. The result? This:

[Chris_H]

Can you remove that patina from the blade?

Yes, you can remove patina from steel with either a polishing compound or sanding it off. In this thread, though, most want to know how to get it.