Stone Washing Question

[RedneckRampage]

I have a Benchmade 553SBK, a tanto point, Griptillian with the black coating on the blade. I'm thinking about stone washing it, and am wondering if I need to beadblast or strip the black coating of first, or will the rocks take it off?

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[Mark W.]

WHAT? I spent 14 years as a Custom Knifemaker and have no idea what on earth your talking about! now if you were talking about a 1980's marketing stick for blue jeans I'm with you.

 

[RedneckRampage]

It's when you put all the metal parts of a knife in a container with some smooth, rounded rocks and some WD40 and put the container in the dryer for an hour or two. The metal comes out kinda a satin speckled grey. Looks really cool. YouTube has tutorials, but they don't answer my question.

 

[2Wheels4Ever]

Try it out and if it does not take it off, then bead blast. Haha I am sure that is not the answer you were looking for.