Adventures in monkeying around with knives

Finished up the first OKC Shikra. Took a few tries to get the overlay color correct to dull the blue without changing the entire look. Thought the clips were Ti too, but alas they are stainless. This one I just tumbled.

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Second Shikra, polished clip and a single color on the Ti side. I ended up ordering two more, these do make a really good gift for $20.

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Finally got some work done on my new acquisitions.

First up is the new Keen Mini. Again, I think the full size finish was a bit nicer and the build all together was just a bit better, but the Mini is still a good knife.

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Last one for this weekend. Chavez 229, I think the red G10 is from Rivers Edge but I am not sure. Took the Ti to a lighter bronze color. Still looks a little Ronald McDonald-y so I might redo in a darker shade.

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Finished up the Mini Penguin. I think this size ratio isn't awesome, the width versus height is off. Almost square looking. Colors came out good though.

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Got the Scapegoat colored up. really like the two-tone finish on the pocket clip. I need to get me a full Ti Scapegoat.

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Finally got around to my mini grip, and boy have I forgotten how much I hate working on benchmades. All annoyance all the time. Started life as this:

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some work made it look more my style

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Spent sometime working on a couple of Emerson's.

First up is is my CQC-7 flipper. Had this one for awhile now, but finally got around to making all the Ti bits the same color. Really like the custom scale with the liner delete.

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Just got this A-100 with the Thunderstorm blade. Really like it, but man is it big. I think I need a mini A-100 soon.

Ti parts are from EKI and xxxadrenalinxxx. Scales are from Vantage Point Knife-works. Clip from Lynch NW.

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I have some new scales for the June-bug and CQC-17 on order.
 
I never got any good pictures of my Reate EXO-M. Found a nice two edge model from PVK so I figured I should post this one up. There are actually a lot of colors depending on the way the light hits, but its almost impossible for me to catch in photos.

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Finished up my last Keen. Really like these, probably my favorite for now, especially in the stone washed flavor.

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Did some quick work on the newest EXO-Ms with the Elmax blades. Now I think I need a drop point to at least have all the blade shapes.

At first:

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The first one I colored had so many steps and colors that I wanted to just go cleaner on this one. Just Purple accents on the hardware, left the rest blasted.

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WE Elementum, tried to just do the hardware like the EXO-M but I think I am going to have to do the scales in the future. Just doesn't seem to pop for some reason.

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