Thread: The Butchered Blade

Originally Posted by outback

Their all ugly...till we clean them up.[emoji5]

I had a lot of 4, they were cheap and 2 were in a rite state. They are both dead now.

The two that are left are both full hollows but one is like a fake W&B ? the steel isn't the same as the usual stuff . Maybe its an extra hollow?

The one with normal metal is in good shape but its just an ugly shape. I'll try to vine-blue it tonight.

Its for my brother so I don't care if it cracks or not lol no loss to me either way

Originally Posted by JOB15

I had a lot of 4, they were cheap and 2 were in a rite state. They are both dead now.

The two that are left are both full hollows but one is like a fake W&B ? the steel isn't the same as the usual stuff . Maybe its an extra hollow?

The one with normal metal is in good shape but its just an ugly shape. I'll try to vine-blue it tonight.

Its for my brother so I don't care if it cracks or not lol no loss to me either way [emoji14]

Your just not right..[emoji38]

Originally Posted by JOB15

I'm not after a deep blue but this beautiful patina :

Really nice effect on that blade! I like how that looks.

Butchered scales on the menu this week.

Tried to save it with some gentle heat, but I don't like the results.
Plastic pulled back into itself and just looks ugly where it had its warpage. I blame brylcreem!

So as per a trick from Tom, into an acetone bath with you.

Time to lay out a fresh set from the intact back scale.

Hey Guys,
Vinegard and blued this blade up. Because its not a flimsy piece of crap its holding together.
The patina isn't as good as the others but I think that is because the other 2 blades I exposed fresh steel for the vinegar to attack.
This one I just removed a few rust spots..

I'm defiantly gonna practice a bit more because I wanna do a blade for me like this.

Poor lighting = duff pictures

Still looks nice, almost black if I can see right? Must make it a heck of a lot easier to see a bevel!

It looks really nice actually. I'll take some daylight pictures when I get the chance.

Just looking at it I can see that it did fracture multiple times . They fractures are in the middle of the blade and none near the bevel thankfully.
They are vertical and don't penetrate through the blade , they seem like surface fractures. If the blade was any thinner then it would have gone through.

It must be a chemical reaction involving Acetone , Vinegar , Bluing liquid. We need a scientist on the forum

Originally Posted by MikeB52

Butchered scales on the menu this week.

Tried to save it with some gentle heat, but I don't like the results.
Plastic pulled back into itself and just looks ugly where it had its warpage. I blame brylcreem!

So as per a trick from Tom, into an acetone bath with you.

Time to lay out a fresh set from the intact back scale.

Thats the only thing that scares me Mike. I had that happen on one set of scales so far. Always makes me leary when I first start heating them. [emoji27]
Did the same as you...acetone bath. [emoji6]

Originally Posted by JOB15

I'm not after a deep blue but this beautiful patina :
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Joseph, I really love the way this came out! Great work my friend.

Originally Posted by outback

Thats the only thing that scares me Mike. I had that happen on one set of scales so far. Always makes me leary when I first start heating them. [emoji27]
Did the same as you...acetone bath. [emoji6]

I've had the same thing happen before when I made some scales out of horn & they warped after I made them. I tried my heat gun & held it about 1 1/2 feet away & I also turned the heat down on the gun but they did the same thing as those did. They were beyond repair so I made some more. I remember using even strokes to keep them from getting too much in one spot but they did the same thing. Ever since then, I have never used my heat gun again to fix warped scales. If I do, I'll practice on some junk ones first.