Like most of you, I am careful to clean/wax my table saw whenever I use it (or sometime more often depending on the weather) to keep the surface clean and 'non-stick'. Now, I don't fish much anymore (stay with me here), but recently went with my brother to the Texas gulf coast and in my old tackle box was a "file knife" (a squid knife as we called them) that I had made from a metal file some 35+ years ago. We didn't catch any keepers in case you're wondering, but the knife still had a descent edge from whenever the last time I sharpened it, and I can't really remember when that was. In any case, that file knife was treated with generic gun bluing agent when it was made - after grinding, sanding, and rough sharpening. After 35+ years and plenty of uses this file knife had minimal rust (oxidation) other than on the sharpened edge surface and had required no virtually no care over time, even after a number of trips to both fresh and salt water. This caused me to wonder how gun bluing (an acid of sorts, I believe) might work on a cast tablesaw surface. For the record, I'm not about to experiment with my own table saw :-), but was wondering if any of you good people have done this. If so, I'm curious how it has or has not worked out, and any other comments you might have
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18 years ago