Honestly the crisp and clear instructional DIY video I have come across youtube. Really appreciate. Being from India, where there is a huge trekking/ camping/ bushcraft scope, but hardly people know and have a culture of bushcraft, I really depend more on youtube to get ideas. Being a knife lover I depend completely on USA based online stores to buy and improve my collection. And this video really has given great idea to work on. THANKS!!!!!!
Indio; brilliant...also...are you afraid that if you were a hotdog... you'd eat yourself? I know I would...I'd smother myself in "brown mustard and relish"...I'd be delicious... Many may not get this...Google "if you were a hotdog"
I just had to say, who ever is her significant other, he or she is a lucky person. Looks great, likes art and likes blades. Second thanks for the info. First time I seen this channel and RUclips did me right. I was looking to patina my BPS and to do it in a unique way. I know this is 4 years later, but I hope she is doing well and just wanted to say thank you again. Be blessed everyone, ✌️🦁
That looks good. Glad to see you doing so well. I met you at Blade 4 or 5 years ago before you started making knives. I think it's incredible that your having success with it. Congratulations.
Subscribed. I've got a 70's era Schrade Old Timer 152 Sharpfinger. I've got it restored and ready for a patina. I'm doing this with a vinager blueing after what you showed. I cant wait to see how it turns out. Thank you young lady. You ROCK !
Octoklops Phd I do it for anywhere from 1-3 hours depending on how dark you want to go. I found that 50/50 water and vinegar does a better job than just vinegar.
Tried mustard on my apocholypse blade and due to the existing patina I got a lessened effect from the mustard however at least I know that a full patina does indeed protect the blade nicely
I did my machete! It's been bashed around and looks 100 years old. I only did it for about half an hour. It looks extremely antique! Like it came out of a war. Lol.top video. Thanks for the tutorial. You explain everything perfectly. Cheers from Australia 👍👍👍
used it on a opinel when i was at uni and funds where short, brushed the mustard like in this video and then covered it in a hot sauce soaked paper towel and left it over night.
I enjoyed this video so much. I took your advice on this Scimitar. It was rusted and pitted. I sanded and sanded up to 1500. I used mustard, keeping in mind your "less is more" advice. I only let the mustard on for 2.5 hours. I was delighted! Then I brewed up some super strong coffee and soaked i5 in that. Thanks for helping me through this refurb. A fan Scottie R.
Wow!!! Stumbled across this by it being in my reccomended list. Totally bad ass!!! Gotta try it. Love that wicked tomahawk design. About to check out your channel. Thanks or the inspiration.
Years ago I tried doing a mustard brown finish on a flintlock barrel I was refinishing. It turned out to be a blotchy mess but was easy enough to polish off. I ended up just blueing it after that failure, which the friend I was doing it for ended really loving. I have a couple of cheap flintlock pistols in need of some love, I might try browning again when I finally get around to them.
We do this in the Society for Creative Anachronism to coat our knives, axes, and swords in our historical recreation hobby. Overly simplified terms, the mustard patina is actually a different kind of "rust" but prevents the normal red rusting. Once it oxidizes the vinegar/mustard, which again, prevents corrosive rusting, it will leave a blue sheen on the metal, It gave the nickname of "blue" steel you may have read in a Conan novel or comic book when you were a kid (well I did anyway, haha). As you can see Kaila display can be used to leave patterns but you also do a thin coating of mustard everywhere then heavier mustard where you want a design. FYI you can buy the big gallon size of generic mustard at your local grocer if you have a lot of metal to cover.
In my country, people traditionally adding patina in their golok/bedog by inserting the blade in the trunk of banana tree overnight. The acidic sap of the banana tree will give the bluish patina to the steel. The wet/green coconut fiber can also used for that purpose. And oh, did you create the tattoo in your hand by a mustard patina too?😁😁
Good video you do good work every time I do a mustard patina I don’t like it and end up taking it off but it’s always fun to experiment with new stuff .
wow i"m surprised how good it works and fast ! have you tried dipping all the way in mustard with pattern welded kinda like people do with coffee to get better contrast !?
Very cool. I did this on my first knife. Iam only on knife number 2. I am child therapist now but by trade I was a butcher. Hence my interest in knives. I enjoy your channel. 🔪🔪🔪
"I'm a child therapist now but was a butcher by trade" Really figg'n weird response...also the storyline of the next season of American Horror Story...
Thank you for your video.I like the way your ax turned out, so i just did my BK9 like a tiger stripe pattern and it came out pretty cool. Thank you again.
Damn, looks better than i was expecting! Ive used vinegar mixed with sand before(makes it clumpy to make a blotchy patina effect) and it gives a similar effect
I did an estwing hachet I restored with mustard. Totaly covered it. It gave it a nice antique finish. Also did a stacked birchbark handle on it. It turned out great. I've got another one to do and will do a video on the process.
Hi Kaila i have a question i want to do that on a sword that i made but i was wondering if that will clean of with metal polish cleaner , im guessing the patina is only superficial.
Killer hatchet. I I have not tried it yet, but I am restoring some Japanese high carbon knives for a friend. I had to remove A LOT of rust-and the forgers patina. Is there any reason I could not do he entire blade? Trying to make it look close to original. Appreciate any advice you might share. Thanks
If you are using the vinegar as an acid etch, could you not use old rag soaked in vinegar for the same result? I have old rags and vinegar is cheaper than mustard.
I'm looking at doing a petina on a weight lifting barbell to avoid corrosion and rust. Mustard seems to be the most practical sense its be unrealistic to dip a 7 foot barbell in boiling vinegar. Anyways, my question is, do you have to worry about the parts that the mustard didnt come in contact with rusting or corroding? Would I be better off to fully coat the exposed parts of the steel barbell in mustard?
This is the first vid I’ve seen of yours. I have to say excellent job! I’ve been making knives for a long time and that was a good trick!! Going to check out a few more if your vids!
Wow..thanx so much 4 this video! I was 1 hr into soaking my dager in viniger when i saw this and did this on top..it looks so sick even 20min into it..great work, your work is as gorgeous as you
I could see a lot of potential with various patterns and artistry with this. I'll keep this in mind when I get around to making some blades. I got a lot of them bouncing around my brain, but getting ideas from my head to whatever medium I apply them to is a difficult task, for me. I'm not sure if I have a mild form of Asperger syndrome or some other mental disability or I'm just in a situation where I'm not in a good location to do what I want or not equipped to do so, or maybe a little of column A and B, but maybe I'll eventually get around to it
That's a nice trick, I'm gonna try this. Do you have any experience on how well the patina stays intact? I've been thinking about making patina like that with AC power, so does this work as well? Thanks for showing this
Seen a video 20 minutes ago and trying it currently. I have a Damascus knife I've grinded and need to reset the etching, I do not wanna buy acid. I hope this works!! Also trying another knife, some cheap "china SS" crap from Walmart, curious how easy and well a drawn pattern can show up.
Too cool Mustard who would have thought but being that it has vinegar in it, it makes sense been getting into blade smithing have only made about 4-5 blade's in about a year as I work 16 hr days but am always looking for good ideas thanks for sharing that I'll have to try that it looked pretty cool
Curious why mustard instead of mixing vinegar with flour or something to make a paste? Is it just convenient or does the mustard itself actually do something?
...and you can use baking soda to stabilize. Vinegar is low acid, if you don't stabilze it it continue to eat very slowly your stell and make nest for rust... So fun to use kitchen stuff for knifemaking :)
Honestly the crisp and clear instructional DIY video I have come across youtube. Really appreciate. Being from India, where there is a huge trekking/ camping/ bushcraft scope, but hardly people know and have a culture of bushcraft, I really depend more on youtube to get ideas. Being a knife lover I depend completely on USA based online stores to buy and improve my collection. And this video really has given great idea to work on. THANKS!!!!!!
Badass! I'm definitely gonna have to try this with one of my moras. Good stuff, thanks for sharing!
That looks amazing I haven't think of something like that that looks awesome
I usually Mustard Patina all my hot dogs 🌭🍟🍔
Indio; brilliant...also...are you afraid that if you were a hotdog... you'd eat yourself? I know I would...I'd smother myself in "brown mustard and relish"...I'd be delicious...
Many may not get this...Google "if you were a hotdog"
Me too it’s great at keeping the rust off !
I just had to say, who ever is her significant other, he or she is a lucky person.
Looks great, likes art and likes blades.
Second thanks for the info. First time I seen this channel and RUclips did me right.
I was looking to patina my BPS and to do it in a unique way.
I know this is 4 years later, but I hope she is doing well and just wanted to say thank you again.
Be blessed everyone,
✌️🦁
That looks good. Glad to see you doing so well. I met you at Blade 4 or 5 years ago before you started making knives. I think it's incredible that your having success with it. Congratulations.
Thank you for sharing this process. Just attempted this for the first time.
Subscribed. I've got a 70's era Schrade Old Timer 152 Sharpfinger. I've got it restored and ready for a patina. I'm doing this with a vinager blueing after what you showed. I cant wait to see how it turns out. Thank you young lady. You ROCK !
How did i not find this channel sooner , it has 3 of my favorite things firstly women , food and cold hard steel.
What a great effect!! Great video!
Try dipping it in a bath of distilled white vinegar afterward. It will give them an aged protective patina to go with the pattern.
For how long,if you don't mind me asking?
Octoklops Phd I do it for anywhere from 1-3 hours depending on how dark you want to go. I found that 50/50 water and vinegar does a better job than just vinegar.
@@m783w I'm going to try that ,I usually just go with mustard but to darkin the steel I'm going to try your method.
@@m783w boil it and its much much faster
Tried mustard on my apocholypse blade and due to the existing patina I got a lessened effect from the mustard however at least I know that a full patina does indeed protect the blade nicely
Interesting technique I'm going to try it on one of my 1095 knives I love to learn things like this
That turned out pretty good! Great job Kaila!
I did my machete! It's been bashed around and looks 100 years old. I only did it for about half an hour. It looks extremely antique! Like it came out of a war. Lol.top video. Thanks for the tutorial. You explain everything perfectly. Cheers from Australia 👍👍👍
Love it , very cool , love your shop too - thanks for the info
Simple but effective. Well done!
wonder if Frank's red hot hot sauce would work? Then you can truly say "I put that s$%t on everything"! lol
used it on a opinel when i was at uni and funds where short, brushed the mustard like in this video and then covered it in a hot sauce soaked paper towel and left it over night.
Very underrated comment lol
It has salt and vinegar in it so it probably would etch metal
If theres enough vinegar in the red hot sauce itll work!
priceless. haha.
Used this on a Tanto Zombie Killer. Worked great! Thanks for the vid.
I enjoyed this video so much. I took your advice on this Scimitar. It was rusted and pitted. I sanded and sanded up to 1500. I used mustard, keeping in mind your "less is more" advice. I only let the mustard on for 2.5 hours. I was delighted!
Then I brewed up some super strong coffee and soaked i5 in that.
Thanks for helping me through this refurb.
A fan Scottie R.
I can't figure out how to attach pictures
That came out really good. 👌 Blessings from Scotland. 🙏🏴✌️
Very cool. I like the random pattern. I am making my first knife and will try it on the blade.
Wow!!! Stumbled across this by it being in my reccomended list. Totally bad ass!!! Gotta try it. Love that wicked tomahawk design. About to check out your channel. Thanks or the inspiration.
So, in the beginning I thought I was going to hate this, but I have to say, I actually like this patina. Thanks for sharing this!
Very cool. First mustard etch I’ve ever seen.
Years ago I tried doing a mustard brown finish on a flintlock barrel I was refinishing. It turned out to be a blotchy mess but was easy enough to polish off. I ended up just blueing it after that failure, which the friend I was doing it for ended really loving. I have a couple of cheap flintlock pistols in need of some love, I might try browning again when I finally get around to them.
That’s so cool. Nice work
Excellent idea. Excellent presentation. 👍👍
I love vinegar-mustard patina's on HC Steel. Great video!
That’s cool, I’m gonna try it. Thanks for sharing.
Looks good and for sure different
We do this in the Society for Creative Anachronism to coat our knives, axes, and swords in our historical recreation hobby. Overly simplified terms, the mustard patina is actually a different kind of "rust" but prevents the normal red rusting. Once it oxidizes the vinegar/mustard, which again, prevents corrosive rusting, it will leave a blue sheen on the metal, It gave the nickname of "blue" steel you may have read in a Conan novel or comic book when you were a kid (well I did anyway, haha). As you can see Kaila display can be used to leave patterns but you also do a thin coating of mustard everywhere then heavier mustard where you want a design. FYI you can buy the big gallon size of generic mustard at your local grocer if you have a lot of metal to cover.
That turned out nice and so easy! I have a few knives I'm going to try this on. Thanks!
Nice job!
What u do after patina? To polish? Sanding?
Thanks!!
In my country, people traditionally adding patina in their golok/bedog by inserting the blade in the trunk of banana tree overnight. The acidic sap of the banana tree will give the bluish patina to the steel.
The wet/green coconut fiber can also used for that purpose.
And oh, did you create the tattoo in your hand by a mustard patina too?😁😁
You can get the same effect by putting your steel into a potato
Interesting. 🤔
In my country we leave it overnite in de gizzard of our enemies
Good video you do good work every time I do a mustard patina I don’t like it and end up taking it off but it’s always fun to experiment with new stuff .
wow i"m surprised how good it works and fast ! have you tried dipping all the way in mustard
with pattern welded kinda like people do with coffee to get better contrast !?
Very cool. I did this on my first knife. Iam only on knife number 2. I am child therapist now but by trade I was a butcher. Hence my interest in knives. I enjoy your channel. 🔪🔪🔪
That seems to be an odd career change.
What could possibly go wrong with that combination?
You're a butcher and you've only had 2 knives?
"I'm a child therapist now but was a butcher by trade"
Really figg'n weird response...also the storyline of the next season of American Horror Story...
Thank you for your video.I like the way your ax turned out, so i just did my BK9 like a tiger stripe pattern and it came out pretty cool. Thank you again.
I love how that turned out. I'm going to try it. Thanks for sharing.
so glad I found this video, will try for sure, looks like Damascus, sorta
Looks awesome!
I enjoyed your video and that's a pretty innovative idea. I didn't know mustard would do that.
Nice video and a cool idea! Thanks!
Awesome video I have got in to knife making and wanted to try reaching and will try this thank you
Been wondering about that technique for a while. Thanks so much for posting the video. Definitely going to give it a try.
Damn, looks better than i was expecting! Ive used vinegar mixed with sand before(makes it clumpy to make a blotchy patina effect) and it gives a similar effect
I used a damn pencil on a okc small game & fish knife lol... With spicy brown mustard & teraki bbq sauce.. love it
Pretty cool idea. Question, what would happen if you submerge the whole thing in mustard for the day?
I did an estwing hachet I restored with mustard. Totaly covered it. It gave it a nice antique finish. Also did a stacked birchbark handle on it. It turned out great. I've got another one to do and will do a video on the process.
That's kinda cool have to try it thanks ✌👍😀
cool too see women doing blacksmithing
Thanks for the video. Do you do this before or after quenching? When is the best time to do it?
NF, I, for one, really like the patina she has created.
Do you ever gun blue a carbon steel blade and how do they turn out?
Kaila, that’s very cool looking. Great job.
Wow! Super gorgeous and easy.
You mentioned that different mustards work differently. Could you use two different mustards to get a contrasted pattern?
Hi Kaila i have a question i want to do that on a sword that i made but i was wondering if that will clean of with metal polish cleaner , im guessing the patina is only superficial.
Great video, for a how to and nice results!
I didnt think I'd like that, but I love it! Great job!
That's awesome. Thank you for the "less is more" I thought it worked the opposite way.
Killer hatchet.
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I have not tried it yet, but I am restoring some Japanese high carbon knives for a friend. I had to remove A LOT of rust-and the forgers patina.
Is there any reason I could not do he entire blade?
Trying to make it look close to original.
Appreciate any advice you might share.
Thanks
Thanks you i will try this, im restoring an axe and it rusts very fast
Great video. I was wondering what this piece would look like if you soaked it in ACR for 30 minutes after its mustard treatment. -New Subscriber
If you are using the vinegar as an acid etch, could you not use old rag soaked in vinegar for the same result? I have old rags and vinegar is cheaper than mustard.
I'm looking at doing a petina on a weight lifting barbell to avoid corrosion and rust. Mustard seems to be the most practical sense its be unrealistic to dip a 7 foot barbell in boiling vinegar. Anyways, my question is, do you have to worry about the parts that the mustard didnt come in contact with rusting or corroding? Would I be better off to fully coat the exposed parts of the steel barbell in mustard?
Does this work on a blade that has already been boiled in vinegar? Or should you do the mustard first?
This is the first vid I’ve seen of yours. I have to say excellent job! I’ve been making knives for a long time and that was a good trick!! Going to check out a few more if your vids!
Wow..thanx so much 4 this video! I was 1 hr into soaking my dager in viniger when i saw this and did this on top..it looks so sick even 20min into it..great work, your work is as gorgeous as you
I could see a lot of potential with various patterns and artistry with this. I'll keep this in mind when I get around to making some blades. I got a lot of them bouncing around my brain, but getting ideas from my head to whatever medium I apply them to is a difficult task, for me. I'm not sure if I have a mild form of Asperger syndrome or some other mental disability or I'm just in a situation where I'm not in a good location to do what I want or not equipped to do so, or maybe a little of column A and B, but maybe I'll eventually get around to it
That's a nice trick, I'm gonna try this. Do you have any experience on how well the patina stays intact? I've been thinking about making patina like that with AC power, so does this work as well? Thanks for showing this
Any preference for mustard? I see you used siracha mustard.
Beautiful work. Nicely done! ❤🤘
Cool, thanks for sharing your plethora of knowledge you have acquired.
Nice video by the way. Looks great
Love the hatchet
Very nice ! Will the darker areas ger darker with a higher carbon content in the blade ! Many Thanks...……….
Seen a video 20 minutes ago and trying it currently. I have a Damascus knife I've grinded and need to reset the etching, I do not wanna buy acid. I hope this works!! Also trying another knife, some cheap "china SS" crap from Walmart, curious how easy and well a drawn pattern can show up.
After watching your video I tried it it works really well mater of fact after helped sell couple knives so I say thanks
Awesome job, girl!
Too cool Mustard who would have thought but being that it has vinegar in it, it makes sense been getting into blade smithing have only made about 4-5 blade's in about a year as I work 16 hr days but am always looking for good ideas thanks for sharing that I'll have to try that it looked pretty cool
Curious why mustard instead of mixing vinegar with flour or something to make a paste? Is it just convenient or does the mustard itself actually do something?
Looks great 👍
Very informative video and well shot
I am building a guitar. I am looking for a a texture for the stainless steel pick guard and I found it. Thank you.
Nice one Kaila, thanks for sharing it with us.
...and you can use baking soda to stabilize. Vinegar is low acid, if you don't stabilze it it continue to eat very slowly your stell and make nest for rust... So fun to use kitchen stuff for knifemaking :)
Looks really good!
That is a really cool idea I will have to try it out
Question for you, does the patina protect from rust no matter what is used to make the patina?
Wow! I had no idea mustard would do that!
Mustard patina of high carbon steel can work extraordinary well and gives the blade a art like look and abstract art at that.
I love the design of the axe head
Awesome, I'll be trying that.
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(Old commercial)
But popularized in WAYNE'S WORLD!!! WAYNE'S WORLD!!! Shawiiinnng!!!
I loved those commercials along with the where's the beef lol
But, of course!!
I remember that I've always wanted to pull up next to a limousine and asking them that question.
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Nice! 😎👍
So it’s like using vinegar but you have more control due to being thicker? Could vinegar and cornflour do the same job 🤔
I stripped my BK-16 And it looks awesome. Just did what u did but sat 12hrs.
WOW LUV THIS IM GOING TO TRY THIS TONIGHT THANKS FOR THE VID
Will it stay that way if you use it,,or ism this for decorative knives and axes only?
A bit of a dumb quest.. but what's a use of patina on a carbon steel knife ?