After the coke I stayed for the music

I tried snorting Coke once..... but the bubbles damn near killed me.

​@@JugglesGrenades 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 that was hilarious

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Gotta wonder if the previous coke treatment had any bearing

Actually just heat it close to boiling so the bubbles build and speed up the process of oxidation and the heat from the liquid quickly turns the oxidation into a “black” oxide. Once the coat becomes thick enough it will appear black. If you layer rust solution of vinegar, salt and/or hydrogen peroxide. You can get a pretty DEEP shade of black on your knife by dunking it in boiling water several times after rusting the surface and be sure to buff the excess black oxide off to get the best results. And flaking is a good thing. Convert to black and buff flat.

I heated mine in the microwave for 2-3 minutes. Got nice and hot, worked fine.

great!!

I've done mine with vinegar in the past, I use bacon grease on them to keep it nice and lubed up.

yes you can sharp it

Coke will clean and loosen the rust. He should have hit that rough spot on the back of the one blade before he went in the vinegar.

i just sharpen my kris dagger to razor sharpness , i think i will cover the edge with electrical tape before inserting it into 50 : 50 vinegar solution.

I did my Conpanion HD with apple cider vinegar, no coke. I heated the vinegar until it just started to boil, then let the blade sit in it until it cooled to room temp (~45 min). Then I got rid of the old vinegar and repeated the process once more. It came out amazing. Looks just like the factory coating on the Bushcraft Black.

@@1mataleo1 super cool, thanks for describing that process. Does that process significantly dull the blade? I’m prepared to resharpen it afterwards but I’m just curious.

No problem. I did it as soon as I got the knife. After forcing the patina, I sharpened it on my waterstones. Factory edges are almost never up to my standard, and I always sharpen a new knife, so I didn’t even bother to check for edge degradation. However, it took very little to get the knife scary sharp, so I immagine the edge degradation was minimal. In hindsight, a strop loaded with white compound probably would have been sufficient to restore it to shaving sharp. So if there was degradation, it was very minimal.

@@1mataleo1 excellent info, many thanks!!

The oxidized layer comes off with any abrasive

@@OEF_Vet_0331 too bad, i thought it will be permanent, thx for the info

yes sure

Yes, molten beeswax works pretty good actually

Yes, beeswax and some oil makes a nice replacement for vaseline. The beeswax is too thick/hard on its own. I don't like using mineral oil, so I use mostly jojoba oil to thin the beeswax. Jojoba is mostly thin waxes rather than the fatty acids (and proteins) in most seed oils. The seed oils can go moldy/rancid, so there is a shelf life problem with the wrong oils. I also find the jojoba to wet the steel a little better than mineral oil. Beeswax has wonderful stickiness, adds thickness and is good for the leather if you have a leather sheath. If you want to control costs a little, use 50/50 beeswax and paraffin and then use 50/50 mineral oil and jojoba oil to thin it to a gel. Run the gel thicker in the summer and thinner in the winter.

Just use a cleaning vinegar. The cheapest ones in the supermarket are fine.

Yes.

Just use a cleaning vinegar. The cheapest ones in the supermarket are fine.

It's just mineral oil, couple of dollars at Walmart or any pharmacy. It's food grade. "Vaseline" is petroleum jelly, also safe (they make chapstick from it). It's basically just various lengths of molecules of hydrocarbons. Methane, ethane, propane, butane, as the molecules get larger, it becomes liquid , then oily, then waxy, then solid - paraffin. Mineral oil is sold as laxative.

@@alexk3088 thanks, i wound up melting vaseline because there is no such thing as vaseline oil.

Vaseline is pretty much just thick mineral oil. You can use either. The vaseline will stick better and both are food safe in small amounts. I would rather use some beeswax mixed with jojoba oil to get it thick because it sticks really well and is good for leather sheaths. What I've settled on is about 50/50 mineral oil and jojoba oil (just for cost) and then add enough beeswax to get the thickness I like. Some call it a form of "fixin' wax" that you can use on knives, wood and other stuff. You may want to run it thicker in summer and thinner in winter. Baby Oil is usually a very thin mineral oil with some scent added. If you can get the unscented version, then it is a win for knife protectant, sharpening stone oil and many other uses. Regular mineral oil is usually a little too thick for sharpening stones.

it only takes a couple of passes to sharpen the knife...steel is carbonaceous

​@@LockReviewEDCandToolsdoesn't the patina go away after a single pass of a sharpening stone?

Good question. I'm guessing fairly well since it seems like a gentle etching

yeah😂

I suppose what works there is the phosphoric acid, not present in other drinks.

@@Testacabeza You can get much stronger phosphoric acid in the concrete cleaner at hardware and big box stores. I'm wondering if vinegar spiked with phosphoric and some salt will work best. Hot of course. I would tend to dip the blades in actively boiling water afterwards to finish off in a low oxygen environment so the black oxide can lock in without any red oxide.

I don't think they are ugly when forced. But I think I get your thought behind this. Natural ones have a story in them, they have a history.

It avoids rust to come on the blade

all steps explained..😅🤙

It's rusting the surface. The edge is all surface, so you will lose a little edge. You'll want to resharpen. On a scandi, that means about 0.4 inches of non-patina steel along the whole length. So it is a more complete effect on a V-edge knife than on a scandi.

Thank you very much@@martinhafner2201

yes i know😅..any suggestion for next videos?

​@@LockReviewEDCandTools maybe some straight up lofi? kzfaq.info/get/bejne/abmVgrmHr76zhaM.html Also, how does the patina hold up during work? Does it slow the rust significantly?

I thought it was cool...makes me wanna shoot pool lol

better than tiktok music tho.

I like the music