Barlow Kiridashi???

recon1s14

recon1s14

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So ready for something different? Yesterday I was a little bored and was looking to do something different, so I looked through my knife cabinet and found an old Imperial barlow I once traded for, the handles were beyond repair, the blades were worn flat and the main backspring was snapped to boot, so in order to pass the time I got this idea in my head that I could move the main blade onto the smaller backspring and turn this old Imperial into a single blade jack, well in the process of removing the blade I snapped a good amount of the blade off :rolleyes: so there I was thinking that all the effort was for nothing, when I suddenly had flashbacks of some custom knife makers I know (CharlieMike) who modify their knives and make them epic, well long story short I settled on grinding the main blade into a small fully functional Kiridashi :D this is the result.

LOL well I'm hoping this is seen as traditional since it used to be a barlow :P

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Btw this blade is raazor sharp, hair splitting ;)
 
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I like it!:thumb up:

A few years ago when I had hand surgery done and was walking around with one hand so wrapped up it looked like a mummy, I had a little Buck Hartsook hanging around my neck. Ya know what? It was THE handiest knife I ever had. Need to cut something? I'd pull it out, cut, and snap back in sheath. Badda Bing, I'm done. If it was not for Marylands totally insane knife laws, I'd still have it. Ends up in this Peoples Republik Of Maryland, it's illegal to conceal ANY fixed blade knife, even if it has a blade only an inch and three quarter. I ended up giving it away to someone I thought would appreciate it. Come on, lets face it, most of what we need to cut does not take much blade. We're not skinning buffalo, surviving in some jungle, nor engaging in medieval crusade combat with very large pieces of cutlery. But we do need to cut string, open infernal plastic blister packages, mail, UPS boxes, plastic food wraps, and other assorted manufacturing packaging or occasional fish bellies. I've never found any folding knife as handy as a small fixed blade.

Most of the time a tiny inch of blade will do. Heck, for most of us, if we were not knife knuts, a box cutter would do us. But we are knife knits, and that changes things a lot. But this little baridashi looks like it would do nice as a Hartsook. Take out, use, put back. Just a darn handy little cutter. I like that!

Good work, sir!

Carl.
 
Well thanks! :D Ive always carried a small fixed blade or neck knife with me, it just comes natural to have a stiff piece of steel in my hand when I have a box to bust open or yes even on of those infernal clampacks :rolleyes: I'm pretty happy with the way this turned out, it's going to see many years of use (especially when the sheath gets painted)
 
Good work. The sheath is very nice. How did you made the wraping? Looks like you have burnt or flamed the lanyard. Nice work...

@Carl: I also have the Buck Hartsook. I only carried it one time. Feels strange carrying a knife around my neck ;) But when the hand is injured, this is a nice way carrying a knife. Better than a folder, which can´t be opened.

Kind regards
Andi
 
Haha well its actually several coats of super glue, on paracord or other fibrous wraps it acts as a wonderfull epoxy and after rubbing it down with some leather it looks pocket worn/flamed ;) I also did this with the thread around the sheath to make it look more rustic.
 
If you don't mind me asking, what did you use to grind down the blade? And as a followup, does grinding the blade down affect the heat treatment of the blade? I'm going to a gun show this weekend and might look into picking up an old knife or two to try this out on.

By the way, in regards to your project, good job. Very nice to see you breathing new life into an old knife.

John
 
Well if you use a grindstone it can effect the heat treat depending on how hot you let any portion of the blade get, while grinding it is very important to keep a bucket of oil or water (preferably canola oil) on hand to dunk the blade in whenever it gets hot, but to answer your question all I used was a stone and a leather strop on this knife, it takes a little backwork but this blade has thin steel and was easy to grind down to size :)

Thanks, I don't like to see classic knives suffer ;)
 
recon1s14 said:
Well if you use a grindstone it can effect the heat treat depending on how hot you let any portion of the blade get, while grinding it is very important to keep a bucket of oil or water (preferably canola oil) on hand to dunk the blade in whenever it gets hot, but to answer your question all I used was a stone and a leather strop on this knife, it takes a little backwork but this blade has thin steel and was easy to grind down to size :)

Thanks, I don't like to see classic knives suffer ;)
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Thanks for the info. Definitely going to look for a few knives to resurrect this weekend.

Followup question: how hard was it to remove the blade from the scales? I've never done this before or even attempted it.

John
 
Haha cool, will you post a thread?

Well it was difficult for me because I was being lazy and used pliers instead of dremeling it like I should have :D But that turned out to be an accidental success because while I was wrenching the blade from the handle it took a big chunk outa it which gave me the idea for the kiridashi :o

But I don't recommend that haha, I would say use a dremel to grind out the pins and the knife will come apart easily.
 
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