Vinegar petina?

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How long should I leave my knife blade in vinegar to get the petina? I could not find the thread about this. Move if needed please.
 
Not sure that you will really get a pattern or not. Most people just use vinegar to clean rust. I suppose that it will darken it a little. You could let it soak for days if you wanted to.

Ive used warmed hydrogen peroxide and salt with good results.
 
Use mustard and or mayo, BBq sauce works good too or stick it in a tater, slice a onion, cut up a roast!


Larry
 
With regular yellow mustard i let it sit for 15 minutes then wiped it clean and it was slightly darker. The next morning it was about black.
 
You can do all kinds of patters with mustard too, if you wanted. Just do it in different layers, it will be darker along the edges of where you put it. Just be sure to wipe it down and oil it when you are done.
 
I use distilled white vinegar. Wrap the blade with soaked paper towel checking it every 15 minutes or so. I've gotten awesome patina's on "hard to patina" D2 steel pretty easily doing this.

I've used mustard, ketchup, mayo, potato, lemon, lime, onion, and hmm...probably other things too. My favorite is the vinegar because it's simple, works really good and easy to clean up.
 
Wow! I am going to experiment with all of those doing layers. It will turn solid black by the time I am done though lol.
 
Keepntime said:
Wow! I am going to experiment with all of those doing layers. It will turn solid black by the time I am done though lol.
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Well, the vinegar is gonna turn it dark pretty quickly. You might want to do the others if you're looking for a pattern to form.

You could soak a piece of paracord in vinegar and wrap that around the blade. You'd probably end up with some neat tiger stripes.
 
Here is a picture of a trailhawk head I did a vinegar patina on. I really like the look of this patina. I do it buy submersing the object in a vinegar bath for a couple hours. Pull it out then rinse it well with water and wipe the greasy black off. Then back in the vinegar bath. I find it takes a couple repeats to get the color I want.

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Lerch said:
Here is a picture of a trailhawk head I did a vinegar patina on. I really like the look of this patina. I do it buy submersing the object in a vinegar bath for a couple hours. Pull it out then rinse it well with water and wipe the greasy black off. Then back in the vinegar bath. I find it takes a couple repeats to get the color I want.

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Looks great! Nice matt finish!
 
In my opinion I would avoid forcing a patina. I have used mustard, apples, vinegar, onions, you name it. I would put some vinegar on a paper towel and wrap the blade check it every 10 minutes or so to see how its progressing. If you want to make a cool pattern coat the blade in a thin layer of mustard and take a drinking straw and blow some gaps and lines in the mustard, it can actually make for some pretty cool results.

As I was saying I wouldn't force a patina, all it really does is dirty up your sharpening device. Just do some carving on green wood, it'll take on a patina of its own soon enough.
 
I use a squirt bottle of white vinegar we use for cleaning. I spritz it and leave the droplets and walk away for a hour or three. I rinse it off, dry it and do it again. I've also left a blade in a vinegar bath overnight. Stunk up the house and it was all black the next morning. I washed it off and it was pretty dark. I found scrubbing when rinsing can give patterns too. Kinda cool, but it wears off with use. The more you do it, the darker the results.

I need to redo some blades...I'll try to get to it tomorrow and post some pics if you want. The squirt bottle gives a spotted result if you do it right.
 
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