Beckerhead Knife Making and Modification Thread

Finished up the cleanup/sharpening to my wife's uncle's KA-BAR's. The 1280 was cleaned, sharpened to a convex (knocked all the way down) around 20 degrees with a microbevel put on by stone to help it hold up against chopping, close to mirror polish. Run a similar edge on my BK9 and it does so well. Also scrubbed and water "proofed" the sheath. For those who have not gotten to play with one of these knives they are a lot of fun type of knife. It cleaned up real well... Now the KA-BAR USMC was a trouble maker... the edge was fairly well GONE, the tip was all dinged up, it had its clip sharpened, the sheath was falling apart, etc etc etc. SO! Revived the sheath with beeswax (fully impregnated) and my skull balms, then had to take it to my grinder to knock the edges back straight, I think it'll hold up now. Also gave the handle the skull balm/beeswax treatment. After that I ground the edge back into shape. Just ended up free handing it off my belt grinder and work sharp, and I resharpened the clip. Also scrubbed the coating with wax and scotchbright to give it a bit of a polish. Thing is a straight razor now and it looks a bit spiffier. Hopefully he will like what I have done... also have one of his kershaws to fix up, but its going to be a full takedown clean up kinda job...

Anyways, BEFORE:


AFTER:
 
modding out this BK10, it was sent stripped, I deramped it and slightly took the clip down a bit. I also made my own mycarta (black and gray with black liners) and epoxied the handles down with 1/4" tubes

 
Nice work. Still loving your mycarta! I still have a ton left from the batch you sent me. I'm saving the burlap for something special.
 
A small one at best. Decided the extra weight in the butt of the 39 would be more suitable for me, the G10 is keeping her in the same spirit though.

 
ok, so crimsonfalcon reminded me of this thread, these are some almost done, waiting to be finished and waiting to be sent to peter's for HT

top knife is done, I will make a kydex sheath for it hopefully over the weekend or next week; bottom 3 are HT'd and waiting for me to make them purty

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and these batch are a mix of stainless (AEB-L, 440c & S35VN) that will be sent to Peter's as soon as I'm done grinding the last 5, not shown here

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and I forgot about this lil fella that was my first and so far only forged blade, started at Uncle E's gathering last year and finished at home. It started life as a piece of 1084 that got hammered into this:

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I had such a blast there...my brute tribute got HT'd, I messed with a hammer to make this one and I ground another blade, pictured here with the profiled and ground forge

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I did the best-to-my-limited-knowledge HT on it, and then it sat ignored while I messed with other blades. Finally got to finish it, and a sheath that I made years ago for an 11 no longer in my possession fit it just perfect

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Just wanted to leave this here... I figured that since I have had something in the making, and it is getting close, I would leak a photo for you guys.

The sebenza is for straight edge reference only. I will get another photo to show the swedge and rounded spine, if I can get that to show.
 
NJBillK said:
Just wanted to leave this here... I figured that since I have had something in the making, and it is getting close, I would leak a photo for you guys.

The sebenza is for straight edge reference only. I will get another photo to show the swedge and rounded spine, if I can get that to show.
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That's awesome..... been thinking about something like that for a long time myself. Really looking forward to seeing what it looks like finished.
 
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