Cringeworthy yet interesting conversion of endura

nihontoman · Sep 4, 2014

The guy who did this is a custom knife maker and hunter who makes pretty good fixed blade knives. This case though seems like a very unlucky combination of lots of alcohol, bad ideas and even more alcohol

The culprit doesn't say much about the design specifics though. what do you guys think?

p.s. will add some more pictures

and here they are:

p.p.s. turns out, it was not his idea. someone asked to do this to his knife. yep, heresy...

p.p.p.s turns out, the knife was broken. so to save whatever was left, they did this.

Sterculius · Sep 4, 2014

Hmm... not sure what to make of that.

Fish30114 · Sep 4, 2014

sometimes you just gotta cave in an send it to the mfg. for a re-blade!

Burke · Sep 4, 2014

nihontoman said:
p.p.p.s turns out, the knife was broken. so to save whatever was left, they did this.

I figured it was something like this. Would actually be a pretty decent little skinner except for the fact that the tip is proud of the handle, definitely a no-go in my opinion.

nihontoman · Sep 5, 2014

Fish30114 said:
sometimes you just gotta cave in an send it to the mfg. for a re-blade!

Naah it's impossible in Georgia (not state Georgia)

nihontoman · Sep 5, 2014

Burke said:
I figured it was something like this. Would actually be a pretty decent little skinner except for the fact that the tip is proud of the handle, definitely a no-go in my opinion.

Yeah, maybe some sort of sheath will be mad for it later. As it is now, it's not really safe to say the least

Burke said:
I figured it was something like this. Would actually be a pretty decent little skinner except for the fact that the tip is proud of the handle, definitely a no-go in my opinion.

Yeah, maybe some sort of sheath will be mad for it later. As it is now, it's not really safe to say the least

Squashfan · Sep 5, 2014

Fish30114 said:
sometimes you just gotta cave in an send it to the mfg. for a re-blade!

I don't think Spyderco does reblades.

Brisket · Sep 5, 2014

Yeah I was going to guess broken blade plus copious alcohol consumption by at least one of the parties if not both. Seems a sheepsfoot would have been a better way to go.

nihontoman · Sep 5, 2014

Squashfan said:
I don't think Spyderco does reblades.

good point. I also don't think they do that.

Brisket said:
Yeah I was going to guess broken blade plus copious alcohol consumption by at least one of the parties if not both. Seems a sheepsfoot would have been a better way to go.

hmm, don't know why they did it. maybe it was broken at the base of the edge... who knows...

Brisket · Sep 5, 2014

Kudos on the perfect topic description BTW.

tiguy7 · Sep 5, 2014

This one didn't require a lot of alcohol. At least the tip doesn't protrude.View attachment 470814

sunandsteel · Sep 5, 2014

Defintely top 10 cringeworthy knives of all time even if it was done to save the knife. Pitch it and buy another one.

pjackst · Sep 6, 2014

shots fired

pjackst · Sep 6, 2014

Brisket said:
Kudos on the perfect topic description BTW.

This ^

nihontoman · Sep 6, 2014

Brisket said:
Kudos on the perfect topic description BTW.

haha, thanks

tiguy7 said:
This one didn't require a lot of alcohol. At least the tip doesn't protrude.View attachment 470814

yeah, like that conversion. looks pretty interesting and it wont cut of your balls while in pocket...

sunandsteel said:
Defintely top 10 cringeworthy knives of all time even if it was done to save the knife. Pitch it and buy another one.

well, it's not mine, but yeah. it looks too bad even for a saved knife. at least filling of the choil area on handle would help make it seem more in line with the new blade. the blade sticking out though is very disturbing. hope the guy who wanted it like that will be careful...