Gents, I finally came into possession of a Henckels, probably circa 1920, that made a great candidate both for electrolysis and (drum roll) - experimentation.

The blade is in pretty rough shape and I'm not sure it's salvageable as a restoration project.








There was some discussion of using other metals which oxidize, but are not necessarily steel. Copper came up. I decided to give this a go. I'm using an old laundry soap container (it was a about gallon and a half before I cut the top off), Arm & Hammer Super Washing Soda, copper wire, 1/2" copper pipe (cut to about 4") and a Schumacher SE-82-6 battery charger that provides three DC options, 12V/6A, 12V/2A trickle, 6V/6A. It was like thirty bucks, works great on the car, the motorcycle and apparently electrolysis of small things.

So I put the lab together:






Because I'm impatient and this whole thing's for fun, the charger is running at 12V/6A.