Questions on "forced patina"

[Jigslinger]

I'm trying to figure out why you would want to chemically force a patina on a knife blade?? If you use the knife it will come along naturally. And, most of the forced patina that I've seen are not very attractive. JMO

Well, one of the reasons is I'm a curious person and I wanted to check it out. Secondly, the knife in question is an really old bareheaded jackknife I bought off ebay. Someone had buffed the blades and 1) they were too shiny given the antique look of the knife, and 2) there were faint vertical buff marks on the blade I wanted to cover up. After hand rubbing the blades and removing a good deal of the patina, I am very satisfied with the overall look of the knife. She has a keen edge now and is currently in the EDC rotation. Probably won't do it again unless a similar situation comes up.

[oldgoat1911]

Every body is correct on methods...I like to help some of my carbon blades too. The only thing I have done differently was to polish with Flitz after treatment. Sometimes you can get some great results from repeating patina applications with the polish in between. It truly does protect if you oil at the end...Herb