Ash Spiffed up!

Bigfattyt

Bigfattyt

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So I traded for this Black/Black canvas Mag handle ASH1. (Thanks TheFifth)

It came last week. The first use it got was to butcher an elk (not mine, just helping another guy do it).

One of the people using it made some contact with the concrete table we were using (after hearing a few heavy clunks, I but a back stop under the butcher paper table cover).

There were a few tiny marks on the edge. Just the excuse I needed to convex it. Spent a few hours last night with sandpaper/mouse pad. Then on to the strop.

I also gave the handle a light polish with brown polish shoe polish. The canvas took the color great.

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your collection is growing and growing!!!

it's hard to stop, ain't it???

nice blade...
 
Great looking edge, and the brown shoe polish looks great!

Makes it look kinda like Tiger.
 
Black canvas Micarta is some strange stuff. It looks more green than black and you can make it brown! Nice job on that!
 
I debated whether to use the brown or the black polish on it. But my favorite color handles are tan, so I figured I would see what the brown did.

I think that black would do a great job of really shining it up too, like black g10, but more grippy and with some variation in color.

Thanks for the kind words.


I wanted to chop the leg bones, but he did not have good back stop to put them on (the concrete table tops were not going to work). He tossed them in to his dogs before I got a chance to find something suitable to chop the bones on.
 
gunscrounger said:
I like the look! :thumbup: But doesn't it come off on your hand in use?
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nope. rub all the excess off with a rag, then buff with the brush. I did my FBMLE a while back with a light coat, and used it camping for two days. No finish coming off on the hand. It does become a bit less shiny. I have not used the ASH much since the handle buff. But have carted it around the house, cut some cardboard boxes, None came of on my hand or clothes so far.

If you leave too much on the handle, it will though.
 
new said:
your collection is growing and growing!!!

it's hard to stop, ain't it???

nice blade...
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Actually, technically my collection did not grow with this one. I traded another piece of inif for it, so the collection is the same size (I think I showed real control, because the wife told me just to keep the other one, and buy a mid sized one).

I swear I am done for a while!
 
two separate thoughts i want to express:

1. i hate letting people use my knives.....they treat them so bad......if i were to hit concrete with a blade on accident, i would immediately stop until i found a better backstop to chop on.....obviously the person using your ASH didn't care, because they kept doing it.......that makes my blood boil...


2. i love the slabs on your FBMLE.....shoe polish was all that you used??? it looks so glossy....and if you did give it the shoe polish treatment, what color did you use???

being tigerhide, i figured that if you used black, that would block out the nice brown color and make the slabs monotone.....was it brown???


thanks in advance for the info...
 
new said:
two separate thoughts i want to express:

1. i hate letting people use my knives.....they treat them so bad......if i were to hit concrete with a blade on accident, i would immediately stop until i found a better backstop to chop on.....obviously the person using your ASH didn't care, because they kept doing it.......that makes my blood boil...


2. i love the slabs on your FBMLE.....shoe polish was all that you used??? it looks so glossy....and if you did give it the shoe polish treatment, what color did you use???

being tigerhide, i figured that if you used black, that would block out the nice brown color and make the slabs monotone.....was it brown???


thanks in advance for the info...
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As to 1. I was not too steamed, because I was planing on convexing the edge, so that was just the excuse I needed (I have had people give me back my knives totally broken, or missing the finish, etc and been really steamed, but I was not too ticked at this guy)
#2 just brown shoe polish. Put a bit on, wipe off the excess with a rag, and then buff with a horsehair shoe brush (or what ever you have to buff it with). I always like the look of other's oiled finishes, and thought i would give it a try but with something that sticks around longer (many knife makers give mycarta handles a buff with beeze wax, so I thought that shoe polish might work as well). They do sell clear wax at shoe places that I bet would also make it shiny and stay on longer than mineral oil as well.
 
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