A duo of modded Sebs!

[Tony8179]

After a little waiting, I received these two beauties in the mail today.

The Large 21 has been modded and converted to D/A by Butch Vallotton. As you can see, the scales have been anodized Blue and then jeweled. The clip has been anodized purple and then jeweled. The back spacer is a vibrant green, has been fileworked, and jeweled. The Black Lip Pearl overlay is used to fire the blade. The color on the pearl is beautiful and the firing is hard and smooth. It is a real beauty!

The Large Regular has been modded by Matt Cucchiarra. When I sent this knife to Matt it had been completely blacked out by the previous owner. While I liked the black coating I was more enthralled with Matt's work so I sent it to him. What Matt did here was strip everything of the black coating. Then he re-blasted the scales and clip. The blade and all the hardware has a beautiful hand satin finish. The scales have been anodized a nice medium blue and have also been given the "Meltdown" treatment. The Fish fizz pattern came to be when I noticed Matt had an "oceanic" theme in alot of his work. My last name, Pescatore, means Fisherman in Italian. I wrote to Matt and asked if he could do a pattern that would incorporate all this and this is what he came up with.

Beautiful work on both knives. I'm very impressed with all the work that was done.

 

[Tony8179]

More!!

 

[Tony8179]

Even more!!

 

[RICKSTER]

Tony those are sweet................. Rick

 

[marthinus]

Damn that is beautiful!

 

[C Ben Susrool]

Couple of nice ones there. :thumbup:

 

[Kdarmy]

I'd be interested to see the construction of how it was modified to a D/A...Nice Knives!!

 

[Tony8179]

Ya know, I'm not entirely sure what those pond are for. I'm sure they are there for a reason though. I also wish I knew more on how the conversion is actually done. The work is fantastic though. My thumb hurts from firing it though.

 

[gormandu]

BEAUTIFUL file work!

 

[BlazenGem]

Sweet Sebenzas!

Does Matt's meltdown make the Sebenza more comfortable to hold?

 

[Tony8179]

I can't even tell you how much more comfortable the handle is after the meltdown treatment. It's like holding a completely different knife. I highly recommend Matt's work. Looking at the pictures can't come close to seeing the knife up close.

Upon further inspection of the two pins in the handle of the D/A I can see that they are actually both screws. The screw on the lock side is a forward stop for the leaf spring. The screw on the non lock side is a flathead screw that sits flush on the inside of the scale. I don't fully understand it purpose. I believe it has to be there though as it is also there on my small reg. D/A.

Oh and by the way, Butch sent me a couple pics of an Umnum that he did a similar conversion to. I'll try to find the pics.

 

[T.K.C.]

Those both look amazing!!! Congrats!!

 

[sticf]

Very nice. Congrats.

 

[fionafa]

I've been thinking about adding a backspacer to one of my small Sebenzas. How's it held in place, do you know?

And how thick is it? There's not much clearance between that and the blade edge.

 

[misterjuiceman]

they look incredible! I love the one with the fish carving. you should get it mayonized!

 

[pvicenzi]

I've been thinking about adding a backspacer to one of my small Sebenzas. How's it held in place, do you know?

And how thick is it? There's not much clearance between that and the blade edge.

I'll bet the mystery screws hold the backspacer in.

 

[Highpower1]

Those are incredibly beautiful! Thank you for sharing these...

 

[RussB]

Both look beautiful, congrats!:thumbup:

An auto sebenza... too cool

 

[atony]

WOW!!!!!

Very nice Tony.

 

[Tony8179]

Thank you all for your nice comments.

The backspacer is actually held in by the stop pin and the screw next to the lanyard hole. It rests under and slightly behind the stop pin and the bottom spacer and is pushed up against them by the leafspring and the screws that keep the leafspring in place. It is in there quite tightly and it won't budge unless you start breaking the knife down.