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Stonewashing anyone?

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bry1975:
Anyone tried the stonewashing process?  it certainly looks cool and probably quite similar to abrasive blasting.

dickda1:
Could you explain a bit how you stonewash a part?
-Dick

Brass_Machine:
Almost looks like bead blasted. What is the process?

Eric

bry1975:
I believe it's tumbling/barrelling.

"Bill Coye from Tulsa does a very nice stone wash finish. He has a vibrator and buys two different media "rocks" from Brownell and spray WD-40 into the mix. His come out a very nice smoothe finish. "

http://forums.dfoggknives.com/index.php?showtopic=15923

PTsideshow:
It is an effect called stone washing as it should resemble the effect on the stone washed jeans.  Depending on the size and assortments of shapes and amounts of media a harder type media like ceramic works better. The thin oil is so less rusting rather than if a water based fluid is used.

With a smaller nozzled blaster and media and a light touch one could duplicate the soft bead blasted look.
It is also called matte effect in some circles.

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