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Vinegar tiger stripe patina on knifes

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Sidmand:
Continuing with my vinegar theme  :D

Here are a couple of knives I have put a nice patina on with a strong mustard.  The stuff I use is a chunky horseradish/grainy mustard that is pretty thick.  I slather it good on the blade, then take a Q-Tip and wipe lines through the mustard.  Note that the darker lines occur on the places where I wipe the mustard OFF; I assume due to more air contact.  I leave the stuff on for about 30 minutes, then wipe it off, clean the blade good, then reapply to get more stripes.  Note that this only works on high-carbon steel, it will not work on a stainless blade.

First pick is of a custom bowie I got in a trade on another site - great knife.  The other is a nice Western knife I traded for some arrows, it was also great and I wished I still had it now.

BOWMAN53:
thats awesome

Danzn Bar:
That purdy  8) .... Have you done a built a long?, if not you need to.. :)
Really like the looks
DBar

turtle:
Wow! I realy like that. Wonder how well it would work on a muzzle loader barrel? I have a barrel on a cva hawkens thats in the white that i think that would look good on.

Sidmand:
Sorry, was a busy weekend and hard to get online.  Thanks for the comments.

Turtle, if the barrel is a high carbon steel and hasn't already been blued, I don't see why it wouldn't work.  Another technique I have used is to saturate some paper towels with a high vinegar solution (or mustard, I really like mustard) and then wrap a knife blade, you might have better success on a rifle barrel that way, but it would be hard to get a striped pattern.  Maybe just some strips soaked in mustard and then wrapped?  If you don't like it, you can take some steel wool and buff it out.  If you try that, post some pics and let us see how it goes.

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