Classic Becker Literature - Machax Instructions

[Bladite]

from a fan

enjoy

 

[tanglediver]

Good to know! :thumbup:

 

[rkmoore]

This is pretty cool! Kinda feels like looking into the past to solve a current problem. I hope I can replace my BK4 before winter.
Anyway, thanks for sharing bladite.

 

[Murphnuge]

Now that's historical!

 

[TBL]

"The new 1986" , Yep, Its been a few years since that was written

Awesome piece of history!

 

[cbwoods67]

That's awesome, Bladite.

Thanks for sharing.

 

[tman038]

very cool. thanks for sharing.

 

[axesbold]

Thanks Bladite! Putting a copy in my files.

 

[Blackhawk45hunter]

The BK4 is one HECK of a blade. I wouldn't carry anything else now.

Thanks for an incredible tool Ethan!

And thanks to Bladite for sharing such a cool piece of BK&T history!

 

[zzyzzogeton]

Thanks, Bladite. It's always cool to find old documentation. Copies made for posterity.

 

[Bladite]

yeah, that stuff went into the archive.

from a lurking member

 

[mbay1455]

Thanks Bladite for getting the old Machax instructions I sent you posted up. I should have thought of just doing that myself but I don't post much so I'm glad you took the initiative. Here's a pic of the Cincinnati BK4 I got recently with those instructions. It's the dark gray phosphate finish. It's in great shape and I'm thrilled to have gotten it. The #34 on the handle is in pencil. Maybe someone knows the reason for the number, like the #20 on your Cincinnati BK4 you reference in the giant Bladite Becker database. Thanks again.

...and Blackhawk45, that fire pic is fantastic.

 

[Captain Airyca]

Awesome!! Thanks for posting this.

 

[Galeocerdoshark]

This is very cool. Thanks for sharing! My next BK&T knife will be a BK4, by the way.

 

[Dexwithers]

Thanks For posting this Bladite! I just love reading this kinda stuff. So cool. Wonder if all the early BK models came with info like that?

 

[Ethan Becker]

A blast from the past!......... All I could see were typos...... Still mostly good advice....... The number had to do with hand fitting handles to blades after phosphating........ Thanks Bladite.........

Ethan

 

[mbay1455]

Ethan, what do you mean by hand fitting handles? Do you mean that the handles were already ready to go and matched to a particular knife, then removed for phosphating, then put back on according to the numbering? Thanks for jumping in.

 

[Bladite]

Ethan, what do you mean by hand fitting handles? Do you mean that the handles were already ready to go and matched to a particular knife, then removed for phosphating, then put back on according to the numbering? Thanks for jumping in.

well. Ethan is far too polite and genteel for his own good (man up, seriously to say the "tru fax" but it's along the lines of, and including, perhaps, but maybe:

o Estalok is a fickle beast. they hand pair handles to blanks, hand tuened, so that after various processing (possibly heat treatining, he wasnt' clear, his memory you know, 2000 years old), as well as phosphating... you know. ... so handle === finished blades === numbers that day/week/month

o they're not serial numbers as such

o they indicate personal love!

o politics!

o antics!

o best possible fit!

one will note, that over time, estalok "moves". shrinks. shiftts. it FEELS great. it's seems like a best material. but the stuff is a treacherous beastie, and well, you know. there you go.

also: if you see a CinCinn blade with the markings "prototype"? it's fake. just saying...

nothing like the old stuff

 

[Bladite]

A blast from the past!......... All I could see were typos...... Still mostly good advice....... The number had to do with hand fitting handles to blades after phosphating........ Thanks Bladite......... Ethan

hey, you know me, always looking for old dirt

 

[Bladite]

Thanks Bladite for getting the old Machax instructions I sent you posted up. I should have thought of just doing that myself but I don't post much so I'm glad you took the initiative. Here's a pic of the Cincinnati BK4 I got recently with those instructions. It's the dark gray phosphate finish. It's in great shape and I'm thrilled to have gotten it. The #34 on the handle is in pencil. Maybe someone knows the reason for the number, like the #20 on your Cincinnati BK4 you reference in the giant Bladite Becker database. Thanks again.

...and Blackhawk45, that fire pic is fantastic.

them old phophate blades are my favorite as users.

that coating is THE BALLS. nobody has ever touched it imho, barring chrome

convex that, and use it. my standard user since i set aside the chome as "too pretty" (after a decade)...

great stuff