Altered / Modified Knives

harronek

harronek

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I was having a clean up of my knife box and realised that over the years I have modified / altered a number of my knives to suit my needs and likes .
Mostly just grinding a different blade profile or handle shape .
Am I the only one who isn’t afraid to get out the belt sander and files ?

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harronek said:
I was having a clean up of my knife box and realised that over the years I have modified / altered a number of my knives to suit my needs and likes .
Mostly just grinding a different blade profile or handle shape .
Am I the only one who isn’t afraid to get out the belt sander and files ?

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That dragonfly looks awesome!
 
Nice chop jobs, they look good! I love these modification threads.
 
I once had a Randall fighting knife bead blasted by a local gunmith to cut glint and shine in a desert environment. I had contacted Randall Made to get something like this done by them in their shop, but they had no interest in any such modification. I view this a customer service issue.
 
Back in the early 1980s I worked offshore in the middle east, as a "mud man". My work schedule was infinitely flexable depending on what was happening, ranging from nothing to do for a week to round the clock for48 hours and more. In that time I made a few knives from scratch (scrap fiiles and so on).

One knife that I modified was a Buck 110. I managed to carefully push out the brass pins for and aft. Then ground off the pins holding the scales on the liners and the pivot pin for the back-locking bar. With it all in pieces I cut bits of Hickory (I guess) from the handle of a broken something or other . . .with permission. I cut tht piece down the middle with a fine toothed hack saw to make a book matched pair. These were cut down and sanded to exactly fit the space where the factory stock "roswood" scales had been, but were lefgt proud. I glued these down on the brass liners with some industrial two part pipe dope used to bond lengths of pipe when setting a liner or tie-back. The pieces were reassembled with cae and the overly thick scales ground down and sanded to mate with the bolster portion of the liners. The mid portion was rounded asnd shaped to make a bqaarrel sectioned handle.

It looked great and filled the hand. Don't remember how, where or why I traded it off . . .or for what, but its been gon for yeasrs now.
 
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