Beckerhead Knife Making and Modification Thread

Granite,
Your WIP is amazing btw. That is my BK2 that I've had from the get go. I just continue to modify it over time. I've been working on a full convex. I have it pretty darn close. It's a laser beam and shaves with ease. I love it! I'm hoping to work it to a full convex with mirrored polished blade over time. I do an hour at a time here and there. Works pretty well. I'm only up to 400 grit currently. I still love the crap out of those scales and my BK2!
 
I tried out stonewashing the BK14. The tumbler did more polishing than stonewashing though. It was VERY dark before i threw it in the tumbler. The tumbler took most of the acid etch off and it doesnt have the heavy scratched look on it.

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I think i left it in the tumbler too long. I meant to take it out at 45 minutes but ended up leaving it for about an hour. I also tried 20 minutes but it didnt have a stonewash look or a polished look really. Just smudges in the acid etch.

Still experimenting. I re-did the etch, then threw it in the tumbler for 15 minutes or so, and now its in a bottle with rocks in the dryer on air cycle. I figure the tumbler polishes it a bit and the dryer will let the stones hit it harder to add more scratches.

The tumbler is designed to polish, not to stonewash. So the rocks dont hit it hard enough to really add those scratches. I have seen videos where people leave the lid off, or add nuts to keep the lid from closing all the way, in order to let it shake more.... but i tried without the lid for a second and rocks went all over my basement LMAO... I tried with nuts on the bolt to keep the lid a bit looser but still didnt see a huge difference. A learning experience.
 
Thanks, and yea....It will barley cut butter now LOL

It will get a nice new edge on it soon though!
 
That turned out pretty good, ww.




Tomorrow, I'm going to head to a few hardware stores and see if I can find the stuff to make a forge. I've got the anvil, and I bought a couple hammers today to try out.

I need some steel for a container, a few firebricks, some refractory cement and assorted drill bits. Haven't decided how I'm going to make the burner. May opt to purchase one preassembled.
 
K, this thread needs at least one post today. Sanding the other side of the 7.....and imbibing some tasty malt beverages from the SNBC and Redhook breweries. SNBC "Winter" pack @ 10.99! Chocolate stout (YUM), porter, Boomerang IPA (Australian hops) and their standard pale. Tasty bargain!

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Looking good after the 220. It's like, 45° outside and I'm sweating - and we haven't turned on the heat yet. Me llamo Emanuel Labor.

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Lookin' good, Mike! Hand sanding is fun and pretty rewarding.

I made it back from town with refractory cement and a couple masonry bits. No fire bricks, though.:grumpy:
Probably going to have to look them for them on ye olde googley thingy.
 
granitestateofmind said:
I am really interested to see how this project goes, CB. Do you have some links or pics you could post up?
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I have been reading and watching quite a bit of videos.

These w.i.p. threads is what really got me interested, after 1066vik suggested them to me.

[video]http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php/920120-Virtual-BBQ-2-Brick-Forge-WIP?highlight=atlas+forge+wip[/video]

http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php/929644-Virtual-BBQ-Atlas-Forge-WIP?highlight=atlas+forge+wip

After a little bit of research, I decided a little longer chamber would be better for my uses. Rather than spend several hundred to a couple thousand on a forge I decided it would be less expensive and relatively simple to make one myself.

ETA: I haven't started making anything yet, still just gathering materials and formulating a game plan.
 
Aight, last post here (for me anyway) today. That forge stuff looks interesting, CB, but I'v already got too many pokers in the fire (pun intended) to start a project like that. Plus, I'd have nowhere to use it in the next 6 months. The garage is so filled with wood dust that it'd make a pretty good fireball the first time I lit that thing up...

Finished - as much as I'm gonna, at any rate - sanding the other side of my 7. Probably get all AR with a few of the detail areas like the guard, the ramp and the "tactical" end - beer opener - before I glue on the scales. Some lighting shows the scratches, some....just mirror reflection.

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Yes it is. I did the knife i posted in post 174 by hand with sandpaper and a drywall sanding sponge. That was just the bevels. Hard work but when its done, well worth it.
 
Ill keep this thread going for a little bit longer.

I liked the above stonewash on the BK14 but wanted to try and get it a little darker before putting a new edge on it. So i sanded the stonewash down a bit (with a drywall sanding sponge, love them things) then re-ethced it with ferric chloride, and did the stonewash again. It did indeed come out a bit better!! Now im about to put a new edge on it. It was all jacked up after the 2nd stonewash so this may take a bit. Ill post a picture when done.
 
And here we are.

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[video=youtube;Ec4BgYW96pg]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ec4BgYW96pg&feature=youtu.be[/video]
 
Thanks Trade! The Black and Tans did it, i was just along for the ride :D Re-watching the video now i had to get up and count the beer bottles, i repeated myself at the end like 3 times in a row. HAHA

Its hard to show the stonewashing good in the picture but i think it came out much better this time. Nice and dark!!
 
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