okay, so i'm stripping my first knife of its coating. all i have is one tiny piece of emery paper. (about a 1 inch square of it) only one side of it is done, and there are some imperfections round the handle, but i'll get them out eventually.

Just gonna strip it?

I know you can't blue stainless steel (at least not well) - I think that'd go for patina as well - I hope you didn't have that in mind.

Looks good though!

i put a patina on stainless steel. (really really crappy stainless steel)
but I dont think it's stainless steel anyways.
idk what i'm going to do with it yet though, i just finished polishing it so, i might patina it, but it looks so good i kinda want to let it all sink in.

you could do a nice mirror finish on it - that would be cool!

yeah, i think i'm gonna just keep polishing it.

i got the other side done now too.

nice progress so far. looking forward to seeing the finished product.

yeah its really hard with the tiny piece of emery paper i have right now. I need some more soon.

Great work!

BTW, it most likely is Stainless, that's pretty much all the Gerber has used for quite some time...

oh really? wow. for some reason i thought it was 1095.
yeah it so hard getting it shinny like vic does.
dont hold your breath for more pictures.
it was really fun doing, and i was so excited. these are the first pictures i've put on any forum yet.

oh my god! i see dicemans signature. mitch hedberg is the funniest guy ever!

Well on the way to satin, good work 'eating..'