Beckerhead Knife Making and Modification Thread

Thanks again, fellas.
I'm considering adjusting the underside of that handle to thin it all out a bit more, top-to-bottom.
It's mate is current in construction. It's hard not to get impatient with it, but once the epoxy is applied, all debts are paid. (something like that...)

Erik, I like the octagons too. My buddy did a septagonal handle... That was hawt.
 
The design of that new Gold Knifeworks mark with the Au is really nice. Love it.

/I'm a designer and really appreciate stuff like this because... I'm a nerd :thumbup:
 
Here's what's going on today in the shop.. "The Kelley Kleaver" ... three of them actually, from 440C stainless, cut out, name stamped and drilled. In the next couple of days I will get to grinding a basic bevel then off to Peters for Heat Treating. Mostly I just wanted to come up with something a little different than my usual hunting and kitchen blades.



Thanks for looking.
 
Effity-eff, I'm exhausted:


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That's a wax smudge.
 
Has anyone yet to reprofile a 7 into a 12? It doesn't seem like it would take That much work (aside from the weight doo-hickey things).
Just drop the point a little and bring the blade up to match, lose 1/2" from the tip in the process and Boom, BK12 shape but not the hit to the wallet...
 
Why reprofile a 7 into something you can just buy? Especially with the time involved grinding hardened 1095cv......when you could do something like this instead?

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IMO, grinding a 7 will never turn it into a 12. Get yourself a 12....I think you'll see what I mean.
 
I guess I would then have to have a 7 and a 10 to compare the 12 against. Considering I don't have any of the three, I actually wouldn't know what you meant until I have used each of them for a sufficient amount of time.

Come to think of it, I would need two 7's, one to mod to near a 12 just to be sure...

Man, Beckers are like Mogwai's that were fed too late...
 
It took me awhile to break the impulse to ruin a perfectly good knife to turn it into a perfectly mediocre different knife that I could either buy or make myself. At some point, you might as well make your own blade. Obviously you're not there yet, but once you reach GSOM's level of 7-mod it's time to get some virgin steel. ;)
 
daizee said:
It took me awhile to break the impulse to ruin a perfectly good knife to turn it into a perfectly mediocre different knife that I could either buy or make myself. At some point, you might as well make your own blade. Obviously you're not there yet, but once you reach GSOM's level of 7-mod it's time to get some virgin steel. ;)
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Sadly, Zathras have virgin steel......he is afraid of, uh....deflowering it and doing something wrong. Zathras can never have anything nice.
 
granitestateofmind said:
Sadly, Zathras have virgin steel......he is afraid of, uh....deflowering it and doing something wrong. Zathras can never have anything nice.
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I have some steel-shaped wood that zathras can practice on. ;-)
 
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