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Post by Deleted on May 16, 2008 18:29:49 GMT
This is what I call a "Poor Man's Antiquing" job. I wanted to get a look that showed some age, while getting some personality in the blade. Up close it seems to have a good deal of interesting lines and curves. I wanted a kind of "semi-damascus" look in the blade. This antique job cost me under $6 USD minus the cost of the sword of course.
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Post by 293master293 on May 16, 2008 20:51:46 GMT
Cool. Makes it look folded.
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Post by Deleted on May 16, 2008 20:52:10 GMT
Nice job! looks pretty good. How did you go about it?
Edit: The furniture still looks pretty shiny, are you planning to rough it up or blue it or anything?
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Post by Deleted on May 16, 2008 21:17:53 GMT
I am playing with a few ideas for the rest of it.
Here is my technique...
I wrapped the blade in dry toilet paper and I loaded lemon juice into a spray bottle and sprayed the toilet paper down. This helps prevent problems with the TP tearing up. Once soaked I squeezed it to the blade and left it for four hours.
4 hours later - I remove the TP and sanded the blade lightly with 1500 grit sandpaper. I repeated the process again as there were spots that had not been mottled by the lemon juice.
After the second application I sanded it again and cleaned it well with alcohol to remove any residue or oil. Next I used "Perma-Blue" gun bluing and blued the entire blade. After the bluing dries it leaves a yucky coat of light corrosion. I used very fine steel wool and soaked it in water then rubbed down the blade to remove most of the thicker corrosion.
After it has been cleaned with steel wool, I used WD-40 and cleaned the blade completely. I wanted to ensure that the bluing quit working and would not bite into the blade any more. After the WD-40 I dried the blade as well as possible then used FP-10 gun oil and coated the blade with a light sheen. And the result can be seen above.
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