Patina Confessions...

cut a bunch of pineapple. it will give you a nice dark even stable patina, if that is what you are looking for.

 

I always thought that Globals are really stainless. Somebody asked me to sharpen his knives and remove a little rust. Look on this:



The rust bite so deep that even after using belt grinder I couldn't remove rust marks.





And rust ate some of the edge.





I have never seen rust that deep or even rust which I couldn't remove with sand paper so my question is ''what one must do to carry his knives to that condition?''. I know the answer because I talked to owner of these knives but you can ask yourself.

Greg

 

I also like Barkeeper's Friend for this. I use it to remove the hard etch (ferric chloride) oxides on my clay hardened blades, but being lightly acidic itself, it leaves a really neat finish.