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Hey brothers in blades,
I haven't posted for a while but I've kept looking at some threads and I'm still a blade lover. What it frustrates me the most is that I haven't been able to go anywhere to actually use my blades... what can I say... life is freakin' hard.
Anyway, I wanted to show you something I did with the very limited resources I have.
There is knife that I have always loved and that is the Aurora from BRK&T. The shape, size and ergonomics of that knife are just awesome as a bushcraft knife. So every time I search for a new bargain out there, I always have as a reference in my mind the style of the Aurora. One day while I was looking at the new stuff that Ontario had I discovered the Ranger Shiv. Since Justin Gingrich started his Ranger line and then passed the designs to Ontario Knives, I was looking at them thinking that I wanted to try one of them. When I saw that SHIV, I thought that the design was very similar to the Aurora in fact and the first handle that they came up with looked pretty nice. I decided to buy one and give it a try. The knife I received was actually pretty ugly. I bought the one with orange G10 scales. The scales are in fact too short for the handle. They start like half an inch behind the choil without a clear purpose to it and the handle falls short. Here is a picture of the original knife.
In addition to be uncomfortable in the hand, the edge was flat with a pretty obtuse secondary bevel, which I didn't like either.
I decided to modify the knife to my liking because I considered that it was a very nice steel and the shape was almost like a smaller brother for the Aurora (no offense to Mike and the Aurora nor to Justin
).
I bought a pair of Cocobolo scales and I started re-profiling the edge to a convex grind in the last portion of the flat grind. Here is the final result with which I'm really pleased. It is really like a different knife now. I even extended the handle like half an inch and filled the gap between the scales with epoxy putty.
Hope you like it.
I can't tell you how much the performance of the blade changed after I re-profiled it... now it cuts like a razor. Since it's a 1095 steel, it is very hard and it keeps the edge very well. It bites into the wood like crazy. The only thing I didn't dare to do was to polish the blade, to get rid of the coating.
I'll be waiting for your comments
I haven't posted for a while but I've kept looking at some threads and I'm still a blade lover. What it frustrates me the most is that I haven't been able to go anywhere to actually use my blades... what can I say... life is freakin' hard.
Anyway, I wanted to show you something I did with the very limited resources I have.
There is knife that I have always loved and that is the Aurora from BRK&T. The shape, size and ergonomics of that knife are just awesome as a bushcraft knife. So every time I search for a new bargain out there, I always have as a reference in my mind the style of the Aurora. One day while I was looking at the new stuff that Ontario had I discovered the Ranger Shiv. Since Justin Gingrich started his Ranger line and then passed the designs to Ontario Knives, I was looking at them thinking that I wanted to try one of them. When I saw that SHIV, I thought that the design was very similar to the Aurora in fact and the first handle that they came up with looked pretty nice. I decided to buy one and give it a try. The knife I received was actually pretty ugly. I bought the one with orange G10 scales. The scales are in fact too short for the handle. They start like half an inch behind the choil without a clear purpose to it and the handle falls short. Here is a picture of the original knife.
In addition to be uncomfortable in the hand, the edge was flat with a pretty obtuse secondary bevel, which I didn't like either.
I decided to modify the knife to my liking because I considered that it was a very nice steel and the shape was almost like a smaller brother for the Aurora (no offense to Mike and the Aurora nor to Justin
).I bought a pair of Cocobolo scales and I started re-profiling the edge to a convex grind in the last portion of the flat grind. Here is the final result with which I'm really pleased. It is really like a different knife now. I even extended the handle like half an inch and filled the gap between the scales with epoxy putty.
Hope you like it.
I can't tell you how much the performance of the blade changed after I re-profiled it... now it cuts like a razor. Since it's a 1095 steel, it is very hard and it keeps the edge very well. It bites into the wood like crazy. The only thing I didn't dare to do was to polish the blade, to get rid of the coating.
I'll be waiting for your comments
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