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Re: Show Your Patina!
Posted: Fri Feb 07, 2020 8:30 am
by 013
Re: Show Your Patina!
Posted: Fri Feb 07, 2020 11:29 pm
by bearrowland
I agree!!
Re: Show Your Patina!
Posted: Sat Feb 08, 2020 3:11 pm
by Enactive
Re: Show Your Patina!
Posted: Sat Feb 08, 2020 4:34 pm
by bearrowland
Looking nice!!
Re: Show Your Patina!
Posted: Wed Feb 12, 2020 5:47 am
by KnOeFz
Hard to see, but my Mantra has a nice dark natural developed patina, esp the part near the Spyderhole.
Testing out my new folding cup from Sea to Summit.
Works great, no taste, feels stable when drinking.
Re: Show Your Patina!
Posted: Wed Feb 12, 2020 1:53 pm
by bearrowland
That picture is so relaxing!
Re: Show Your Patina!
Posted: Thu Mar 26, 2020 3:54 pm
by Enactive
Re: Show Your Patina!
Posted: Thu Mar 26, 2020 4:08 pm
by bearrowland
Nice!!
Re: Show Your Patina!
Posted: Sun Apr 26, 2020 12:48 am
by Cambertree
Enactive wrote: โThu Mar 26, 2020 3:54 pm
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Very cool!
Hereโs a progress pic of one of the stalwart users of my knife accumulation, the late, great GB1:
Re: Show Your Patina!
Posted: Sun Apr 26, 2020 7:07 am
by Woodpuppy
Nice! The more I see of the GB 1&2, the more I think I could overlook the country of origin...
Re: Show Your Patina!
Posted: Sun Apr 26, 2020 12:53 pm
by Enactive
That's a classic to keep around! The GB1 has more appeal to me than the 2.
Re: Show Your Patina!
Posted: Sun Apr 26, 2020 5:06 pm
by Cambertree
Woodpuppy wrote: โSun Apr 26, 2020 7:07 am
Nice! The more I see of the GB 1&2, the more I think I could overlook the country of origin...
Thanks! Oh, you don't buy Taichung knives? I guess that makes it easier to narrow down your prospective knife choices. :)
It's a great knife for sure, so solid feeling with those thick, stout liners, slick action, and a really nice hollow grind and swedge on the blade.
Enactive wrote:
That's a classic to keep around! The GB1 has more appeal to me than the 2.
Yes, I like the 50/50 choil on the GB1 better than the GB2 design too. As a user, I kind of think of it as a heavy duty Stretch. :)
(Btw, the 'local colour' props in the pic are a chunk of raw iron from an old volcanic blast field in Western Victoria, and a frond of Antarctic Tree Fern from the local forests, sitting on my benchstone lapping plates. The volcanic iron projectile is strongly magnetic.)
Re: Show Your Patina!
Posted: Tue May 12, 2020 10:38 am
by Holland
Re: Show Your Patina!
Posted: Tue May 12, 2020 2:39 pm
by Ssmith04
Hot vinegar dipped Maxamet, HCl dipped clip.
Re: Show Your Patina!
Posted: Sat May 23, 2020 5:18 am
by 79bolo
Re: Show Your Patina!
Posted: Sun Jun 21, 2020 11:22 am
by VooDooChild
Scrubbed off this forced bubble pattern I was trying to do and decided to let a natural patina form.
Re: Show Your Patina!
Posted: Sun Jun 21, 2020 1:43 pm
by bearrowland
It looks good!
Re: Show Your Patina!
Posted: Wed Sep 09, 2020 8:15 am
by Pokey
This was the result of cutting onions, tomatoes, and baked chicken in one use. Onions and chicken add blue/gray, and tomatoes brown/black with spotting. K390 looks like stainless, compared to 52100.
Re: Show Your Patina!
Posted: Wed Sep 09, 2020 1:38 pm
by JonLeBlanc
Pokey wrote: โWed Sep 09, 2020 8:15 am
haha pretty sweet, yeah 52100 is the most reactive steel Spyderco has ever used (to my knowledge).
Re: Show Your Patina!
Posted: Sat Sep 12, 2020 5:20 am
by Cambertree
Cool stuff, Pokey. :cool: :)
Hereโs mine in its third month of daily use: