Boss Street Mod

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trldad

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No I don't mean to mess with perfection Jerry. But for me this is a first. Take a beautifully created knife created by Jerry and the Busse team and Hack and grind on it with my meager skills.
Well it worked for me.
The Boss Street really is a well executed design in what I consider the perfect using knife size. The knife felt to me a little heavy in the handle and I felt I couldn't choke up on the cutting edge as close as I wanted. So I decided to lighten up the handle a little bit by grinding off the exposed tang and removing the talon hole and develop a choil in that area instead.

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Here you can see a before and after shot with the Boss Street Proto and Production.
I didn't remove a lot of steel and because I did the Mods The difference in feelings may be more of my perceptions than a real change to the balance but I feel it handles better and gives me more control.
Here is a pic of the balance.
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You can see from the back the point of balance has changed very slightly.

Here is a better view of the back of the knife.
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And last but not least a view in hand.
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Hope you like the mods to this great knife. I am fortunate to have a spare in case I don't like the changes but the changes really work for me.
 
I was waiting for this mod and expect to see more of them. Looks pretty good!
 
Nice mod, it looks like a little larger choil might be a bit more comfortable???
 
DowntownDM said:
if the choil were deeper and perfectly semi-circular (like an ASH or the like) it would be ideal to me.

nice job. :thumbup:
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A deeper choil could easily cause a stress riser in a knife like that when the knife wasn't designed around it. Going deeper into the ricasso could spell trouble. Same goes for a lot of mods, like adding deep jimping etc.. It's the only reason I haven't done one myself, but i'm a lot harder on tools than most people so I didn't want to stack anything else against me.
 
Thanks for all of the Kudos guys. It is a small mod as I have seen these done But it was a lot of fun for me.

resinguy said:
Nice job. :thumbup:

How did you grind in the choil? small drum sander?
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Yeah Resinguy first I used a dremel with a cutting disk to remove the talon hole and the bulk of the metal "tongue" at the butt of the knife. Then I put a small drum sander in a corded drill, and put the drill in a vise. Worked out well.

DowntownDM said:
if the choil were deeper and perfectly semi-circular (like an ASH or the like) it would be ideal to me.

nice job. :thumbup:
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DTDM
I wanted to make the choil even and symmetrical but I was concerned with making it to deep and weakening the blade. I still may fool around with it but I am happy with it the way it is.

Thanks all
trldad
trlHOG
 
230grains said:
A deeper choil could easily cause a stress riser in a knife like that when the knife wasn't designed around it. Going deeper into the ricasso could spell trouble. Same goes for a lot of mods, like adding deep jimping etc.. It's the only reason I haven't done one myself, but i'm a lot harder on tools than most people so I didn't want to stack anything else against me.
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I don't think Downtown meant that he would prefer a HUGE choil, just one that was a little larger. I really don't think that a little larger choil would increase the chances of the knife breaking if used under conditions.
 
I'm not suggesting anything is wrong with the OPs. It's awesome, and cool that it's done. I'm mildly jealous. ;)

For me and my retentive nature, I'd just prefer it were perfectly semi-circular and (thus) just a little deeper/bigger.
 
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