Duracoat experiment

I'm beginning to meddle with Duracoat, and looking for prototypes to try it out on before I start doing it to guns.

This is my old Buckmaster, I bought it back in about 1991, before I first went into the army. I'm looking at adding accents and an overall ACU pattern. Either this will be a masterpiece.....or it will be a disaster and I won't post anything more to the thread.

I will clean all the parts to death, brush them off with denatured alcohol, base coat with tan, and then stencil on the ACU pattern. Any advice or appeals to decency before I do it?

No, it's cool, I lusted over it as a teenager, and I saw one on sale in a catalog from Atlanta Cutlery for I think $105, I dropped the last of my summer job cash on it. I used it in the field in Germany, I was a survival instructor for a summer, but now I'm in intelligence, and I really don't much like all the gear I HAVE to carry, with trauma plates, water, etc, this is about the heaviest knife on the planet. (I usually keep a Gerber Mk II now.) I took it to Iraq, but I never used it at all. I suppose I'm just reaching the point where it has more than outlived its purpose and paid for itself, I might as well have some fun with it. I got a modern ACU MOLLE sheath for it, I figured I would try to finish it to match.

Most of the advice I have found says it's best to sandblast or at least hand-sand it first.....I'll be getting some sandpaper in the morning.

Never, ever selling it.

I would like to get a sandblaster, but I don't have one now. Sandpaper this time.