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They were not plated, except on the lever spring cover.
Bill

Sonny 1095 or 01 can be heat treated with a propane torch.
Get real, high temperature silver solder, not the 400 degree 4% stuff.
Bill

My fault. Vagrant is correct. M/C has it too!
Bill

Steel is available from http://www.kovalsupply.com
Just get plain 1095, not precision ground. Blade can be filed to get the bevels, and polished with wet/dry sandpaper. Small (very) ball peen or tack hammer. It will be a tough job with a hacksaw, but can be done.
Bill

Go ahead and get some 1095 high carbon steel. No sense in doing it twice. Drill the pivot hole first. Pin the blade to your blank. Clamp it down, and drill the others through the blade holes. Leave the blank wider than the finished blade, or it WILL sit proud. Grind the blank to shape after you have...

Damned if I know!
They are all made that way.
I think you can hard-solder the backspring.
Bill

I have no experience with titanium, but on other metals, the heat coloring is a very thin, fragile layer. It cannot be polished. Even hot bluing, with acid salts, penetrates the surface only marginally. Plating will hold up better, but even it is a thin layer. Any stove or torch that gets the metal ...

Steel can be effectively colored by heating. Other metals will color with heat. The coloring is not particularly durable.
Anodizing is a misnomer. True anodizing requires electricity, heat, acids, dyes.
"Coloring" is a better word.
Bill

It should be worth $50.
Bill

Rats- This will be a lengthy answer. No. Actually, it seems that Massaro can't keep up with orders now. I asked about getting a few LLOs with covered lever spring for members here. All they had to do was put Old Fashioned scales on a LLO. No dice. That is why I'm suprised to see the LLO scales on th...

Massaro makes the Leverletto, exclusively for AKC. Maserin makes other knives. Massaro also makes the Old Fashioned.
Bill

Same knife, Leverletto scales.
Bill

Those are simply Massaro knives, sold by Maserin.
Bill

Actually, this is a very rare knife, but the blade is ground up.
The bolsters and "liner" are all stamped from one piece of nickel silver, and then applied over the real liner. Then the scales are overlaid on that.
Any Herder LL is rare.
Bill

But the COOLEST one is the small version. I have one of those!
Bill