BK11 now with Curly Birch and bigger handle

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OK, so my bk11 has gotten through some changes along the way. Most of it due to the fact that I have been experimenting with new woods and handles, so I have also improoved, or upgraded my blades.

<it started having just a TEak wood Handle, round handle to be precise...
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after a while i also worked on it a bit more and stripped the blade puting a mirrow finish on it.

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however I know grew tired of the teak wood scales and decided it was time to put a tuxedo on my bk11

so I give you the new and improved bk11, with a Patina and Curly birch handle, with a leather sheath

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I got the curly birch from finland still got some work to do on it however it is getting there, the pins are Corby aluminium rivets.

now the handle is a full hand one, very confortable one I might add.

the wood is excellent. The filling in the back of the handle I did it with the wood itself.

With the rivets it is not going anywhere.

hope you like it
 
here os a video I did on the knife

[video=youtube;WKLp9nZYS7k]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKLp9nZYS7k[/video]
 
Stupid knife- you can't even open beers anymore LoL nice handles. I would like to do that with mesquite and my bk2
 
my next mod will be my BK2, although I had a rough time finding a nice piece of wood that will fit the handle on the BK2 ( most stabilized wood are too short for the bk2 or too darn expensive) but finally my search is over and I found some spalted maple burl, right size, beautiful color and detail, it should arrive this week, and I will start working on it right away. Hope to have it finished by the end of the month. After that I will post some pics
 
So I learned how to make the SUper glue finosh to the handle, and so I applied that technique to my bk11, that gives a protected finish to the knife since Super glue is a type of acrylic

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