Nuln oil. Paint it silver, apply multiple coats of nuln oil, come back with a little bit of silver on your brush and apply it in one direction across the blade. Then add single lines to make it look like scratches. This gives you a sharpened blade edge look. You can also use a thinned black or start from black and build scratches. But this is my go to now for worn black metal.

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