Etching surprise on a talibon

[William.m]

Hello all,

When I first recieved my Talibon it was in a sorry state so I set out to restore this little beauty. I used hybrid polishing to and got the blade up to 1200.

After this I wondered what would happen if I gave it an etch the same way I would do a japanese blade to see if there was a temper line or hamon.

The method I used was to firstly heat up the blade on a radiator, then dab a solution of hot vinegar and a drop of dishwasher soap onto the blade.

Here are my results!

http://img215.imageshack.us/img215/3420/tal1rl.jpg
http://img234.imageshack.us/img234/2404/1851362fm.jpg

http://img315.imageshack.us/img315/71/gogogo0449bj.jpg

[Flavio]

Hello William, nice talibon. Mine is just a question: is it possible that the blade was forged from an old rasp or a file because of the sign on the blade like this other knife?

http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/showthread.php?t=2119&highlight=file

Just a curiosity :)

[William.m]

Hi Flavio, Yes your right. The talibon was almost certainly made from an old file. Good sources of steel. Also could you please edit your post as you have doubled up on the pictures and its a bit of an eye-full.

Cheers!

Will

[Lew]

Hi Will

What you have there is the temper line all forged blades usually have one. You were able to bring it out through polishing and etching the blade. Nice job.


Lew