BK2 Grip: Slippery to Perfect in 5 minutes

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The hockey tape wasn't doin' it for me.

Since I plan on getting the Micarta anyway, I figured it was time to take my new baby (24 hours old!) and improve the grip.

I'm sure you guys have already figured this out, but anyway...

I heated up my $4.99 Harbor Freight solder Iron and then first tested it on a volunteer: A Cold Steel Black Rock Hunter. I wanted to get a feel for how the iron burned the grivory first. Very easy actually!

And so out came the Becker. Now the horribly slippery factory handles are grippy as HELL. This will do just fine till I get the new ones!!

Not often I'd take a chance like that with a brand new knife. But those handles were so slick, there was nowhere to go but up.

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Cool mod. I find that the grivory isn't very slippery at all. Sure, you can glid your finder over it easily enough, but once you get a good handle on the blade, I find that it isn't going anywhere.

If you look around, Ethan tells a story about how one of the guys dipped a BK2 in transmission fluid (that's the slippery one, right?) and jammed it into a tree several times. No slippage at all. Was I there? No. Will I try it? No. Should you? No.

Either way, the important part is that you took matters into your own hands and made yourself happy with your new knife. Nice work.
 
Awesome mod, gotta get a good grip now, no doubt.

Here is the quote from Ethan about Will Fennell and Anthony Lambardo,

Ethan Becker said:
Hey Raskolnikov...

There are basically two major schools of thought on handle surfaces... ..At one extreme is the make it so sticky, rough, textured, what have you that the blade will NEVER come loose....Then there are those in the design the handle right and ytou can have a surface smooth enough that you will not raise blisters and hot spots when chopping with bare hands (I ALWAYS try to wear leather gloves) ........I usually live in the"I really do not want blisters in the woods camp".....The world famous Will Fennell and the redoubtable Anthony Lombardo dipped a BECKER knife handle in transmission fluid and both then repeatedly stabbed a large tree with the knife and had ZERO problems with slippage.... Both are stout well muscled (OR WERE THEN) gents so I suggest that you spend a little time afield with your NINE before expending a bunch of effort.....Having said all this and having had no field problems myself...Has anyone got a story?????.....I want to thank you for your purchase and hope your NINE works well for you!!!!.....

All Best....

ethan
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Moose
 
I'm a gloves guy now. In fact, I need to get some new tac gloves with kevlar before it thaws out and I go back in the woods. Last time I had a little "slip" with a 12" Cold Steel Bowie Machete while batoning that left my left index finger with much less feeling from the front knuckle to the tip than before. So any hard chopping type work I'm gonna wear gloves.

IMO, keeping the big heavy sharp piece of metal in check trumps a few blisters.
 
It looks very well. I´m sure that the grip is improved with that. It ´s a good idea use the Freight solder Iron. I have one i used in the past for guitar pickup soldering
 
Hm, I dunno about that bike tube modification... the added cost of buying a bicycle and a pair of scissors really puts the overall cost of the knife through the roof ;)
 
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That actually looks pretty good:thumbup:. My grip didn't feel that slick, but I had a blown out bike inner tube laying around, so I used it for the grip and cut some ranger bands for the sheath.
 
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