Contest: How Frankened is this knife? WE HAVE A WINNER!!!!

The little lady was getting a wee bit worked up last night. Glad things have calmed down. She likes to get rough every now and then.
 
Bladite said:
there are three mods !!!

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honor your moderators :D
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Took me a couple minutes. But I finally got your post. I meant "Mods" as in modifications. :) Nice catch Bladite
 
did you get my e-mail? gmail was acting really wierd when I sent it, and i thought it might not have been sent.

thanks.
 
Wood Splitter

Your entry was the first to correctly name all the modifications.

They were:
1. Cut BK-7 into a BK10 (Many said “shortened blade and reshaped swedge, but with just a tiny bit of research, or regularly reading the forum, you would have already known this knife as a BK710. I may be renaming it to a BK710Mandu. More on that later.
2. Stripped the coating off.
3. Applied an RMK-ish finish. I accepted satin finish.
4. Cut / enlarged choil.
5. Changed thumb ramp into a depression. That is one modification.
6. Re-profiled the edge.
7. Grooved the Grivory
8. Stippled the Grivory
9. Stainless hardware
10. Al Welke Sheath.

There were other entries that listed all the modifications, however they also included some that did not happen or would be a misinterpretation of what I did.

So many of you skirted around all the modifications. I was concerned I would have to bend the rules and have a few winners. But, Rusty, the Major and I decided to hold our ground and sure enough, a 100% correct answer was submitted. Along with that answer, Wood Splitter properly surmised as to what the cutout on the top was for. It is not really for my thumb, but aids in choking up on the blade and is a nice comfortable place for the webbing between my thumb and index finger.

The BK710Mandu name is derived from of course the change from a 7 to a 10, then with the choil and thumb/webbing “Thingy” (as aptly named by Derek) make the knife have an appearance slightly reminiscent of the Swamp Rat Ratmandu. I’m thinking about it.

Thank you to all who participated. It was a lot of fun on this end and I really appreciate the amount of interest it generated.

I’d also like to thank Ethan Becker for such a great knife line to play with an KaBar for making those knives. That is a match made in Heaven.

Now Wood Splitter has to email me again and provide his mailing address to receive his prize.

Tom
 
Congrats wood splitter. Good work.

I left the stainless hardware out of my guess because it looked stainless on one side but black on the other. I also counted the grip stippling and grooving as one mod.

Fun contest!
 
sweet! Dang, I was close in mods, but missed the edge and the double-mod on the grips...
 
Wow, thanks guys! :)




































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