Results 1 to 10 of 16
43LikesThread: How would you proceed?
LinkBack URL
About LinkBacks-
08-19-2014, 05:44 PM #1Senior Member
- Join Date
- Sep 2013
- Location
- Southeastern Virginia, USA
- Posts
- 706
Thanked: 155
How would you proceed?
This Hilger & Sons model 2250 has a nice, very deep etch on the blade; here's what it looked like before and after a light cleaning:
I'd like to address the corrosion ("devil's spit"?) and pitting, while preserving as much of the etch as possible.
What would you do?When you are dead, you don't know that you are dead. It's difficult only for the others.
It's the same when you are stupid.
-
08-19-2014, 05:54 PM #2Senior Member
- Join Date
- Apr 2008
- Location
- Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States
- Posts
- 2,944
Thanked: 433
I wouldn't get much more aggressive, I would probably try very fine synthetic steel wool pads and metal polish
-
08-19-2014, 06:12 PM #3
I would use lapping film and wash it often. I wrap the film tightly around a round object. That is because the film does not sink into a deep etch. It will hit only the high spots. And washing every few strokes will keep swarf from abrading the surface edges of the etching.
I have done this and it is good for deeply etched blades. Sparingly it will work for a shallow etch. It will not remove pitting within the etching.
I have used a dental pick to get some of the pitting clean.
YMMV as always!
~RichardBe yourself; everyone else is already taken.
- Oscar Wilde
-
08-19-2014, 06:18 PM #4
Vibrating tumbler.
Ed
-
08-19-2014, 06:23 PM #5Senior Member
- Join Date
- Oct 2010
- Location
- Everett, Ontario
- Posts
- 1,554
Thanked: 309
This is the best way
Originally Posted by Chevhead
-
08-20-2014, 01:10 AM #6Senior Member
- Join Date
- Jun 2013
- Location
- Gladstone QLD AUSTRALIA
- Posts
- 3,245
Thanked: 804
fill the etch with nail polish then use a hard backed fine sanding grit
then clean up with acetone to leave the etchingSaved,
to shave another day.
-
08-20-2014, 01:44 AM #7lobeless
- Join Date
- Feb 2012
- Location
- Kansas
- Posts
- 4,864
Thanked: 762
Man, I don't want to hijack the thread, but whatever you do, best of luck. What a great looking blade.
David
-
08-20-2014, 01:52 AM #8Senior Member
- Join Date
- May 2012
- Location
- The Lone Star State
- Posts
- 1,710
Thanked: 382
I'm with earcutter - the blade and the scales... Originally Posted by earcutter
Let us know how it turns out..Support Movember!
Movember https://mobro.co/markcastellana?mc=1
SRP Team USA https://moteam.co/srp-usa?mc=1
-
08-20-2014, 01:54 AM #9Know thyself
- Join Date
- Feb 2008
- Location
- New York
- Posts
- 11,930
Thanked: 2559
Looks like the devils spit pitting is probably going to run as deep as the etch itself. Taking the staining off the pitting will make it less apparent under some lighting conditions, but the pitting will cast shadows into itself, so you will still see it even if it's totally cleaned.
Personally, I use 000 synthetic steel wool with MAAS. I made a thread about it with before and after pics in the resto section some time ago.
-
The Following 2 Users Say Thank You to holli4pirating For This Useful Post:
Dzanda (08-20-2014), markbignosekelly (09-01-2014)
-
08-20-2014, 02:31 AM #10The Great & Powerful Oz
- Join Date
- May 2008
- Location
- Bodalla, NSW
- Posts
- 15,624
Thanked: 3749
Murphy's Law . " Devil's spit is always as deep or deeper than the etch. "
Soft disposable wooden chopsticks & metal polish can get inside shallow pitting but won't remove itThe white gleam of swords, not the black ink of books, clears doubts and uncertainties and bleak outlooks.
Reply With Quote
