Customized production knives YOU DID YOURSELF

James w

James w

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Post some pics of yours below I'm starting this thread for knives you did by your self with no help i like looking through the other thread except they are all, almost all that is, were sent in to be modded. If posting pics of custom handles you have to of made it. if your someone who does work on knives professionally then don't post them here even if you did them by yourself
 
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James, here you go. The top knife I did all the modifications. It started out the same as the knife below as a Buck 103. I gave it a more sleek, straight spine, raised the grind line creating more belly (it's a skinner)and removed the hump. Which created a different point. Then I removed the handle, cut leather disc and gave it a stack leather handle.
I also lengthened the handle with a stainless pommel and gave it a lanyard hole. The blade is of 440C so it was worth my time doing these modifications. DM
 
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The buffalo Skinner blank I handled in some walnut Ethan Becker gave me and used 50 percent hydrogen peroxide and salt to put 75 years worth of rust on the blade in 30 minutes.I made it for a friend who wanted it to display it with a very old blackpowder rifle.The little More blank I used a 1950 nickel for the bolster and tiger maple for the handle.I used potassium permanganate mixed in water to highlight the grain.I just finished a Condor Kephart blank handled in 5000 year old Irish Bog Oak and a Karasuendo blank got a brass bolster and leather washer and copper spacers and an Ace hardware dowel grade piece of maple.
 
Here you go ;)

Cold Steel GI Tanto

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Syderco Delica ZDP micarta

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:p
Just kidding.
Those with delicate knife connoisseur sensibilities may want to view this post with supervision.
However . . . raucous laughter IS allowed.

My only unaddressed point (pun intended) is what to make out of the amputation ?

First photo top knife : I made a box knife out of an Opinel #12.
Pretty inventive Huh ? Well actually it is more of a high leverage, high control full fisted sort of . . . well . . . what ever it is.

The difficulty in snapping off the extra blade length after I had created a deep sharp edged slot in one side of the blade, using an abrasive cut off wheel, gave me a new respect for how find grained and tuff the Opinel Carbon blades are. They got the heat treat just right in my opinion : it didn’t bend, it didn’t snap, it just bowed way over and took it several times until I got super western with it and it finally, finally broke off. Impressive Opinel dudes ! Impressive in deed.

oh yah . . . and I added a nail nick on the opposite side of the Opinel blade so as not to mess up the logo. Actually a very handy knife and I can carry that huge handled knife in my pocket all day and because it is wood and so light I literally don’t notice it until I need it. Not a bad experiment for $17 including shipping.

First photo second knife down (the little Buck 505) I arced on an automobile battery while cleaning one of the posts on a girl friend’s car that wouldn’t start in damp weather. You could fit a tooth pick side ways in the notch that was melted into the edge. I reground it and while I was at it I polished out the factory grind lines on the sides of the blade to a mirror polish. That was more than thirty years ago.

Lastly still in the first photo, the Pissed a’ Resistance : my custom, high tech, self engineered, high speed, low drag, quick draw, fixed blade, . . .
. . . er . . . what was I talking about ? . . .
. . . oh yah . . .
finger nail cleaning tool. I’m a mechanic and so need the BEST in phelangic debris removal equipment. My finger nails just laugh at finger nail brushes and what with the splits in the ends of my fingers that come to visit every winter (ouch, ouch, Ouch, OUCH !) . . . I had to come up with a better solution and don’t get me started on how worthless the big wide fingernail cleaning things are.
anyway . . .
This’n here is solid tungsten (TIG welding electrode). Holds an edge for years of finger nail scraping. Just right shape to be a sharp edged scraper without drawing blood.

Second photo shows close up of Opinel nail nick and Buck polish.

Third photo attempts to illustrate the hollow ground tip of the fingernail tool.

Fourth photo shows Cold Steel Hold Out III pocket clip spring rate reduction which I cut just tonight before posting in this thread (the slot I cut lengthwise in the clip). (needs even less spring rate).







 
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Fujita Yuji,

Nice work !
Is that ebony or another wood that is dyed black . . . or buffalo horn ?
 
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thanx, wowbagger.

The handle scale initially fitted was a kind of stabilized wood.
What i applied in place is canvas micarta with common corby bolt.
Afixed blade in the pics along is my homemade.
 
David Martin said:
James, here you go. The top knife I did all the modifications. It started out the same as the knife below as a Buck 103. I gave it a more sleek, straight spine, raised the grind line creating more belly (it's a skinner)and removed the hump. Which created a different point. Then I removed the handle, cut leather disc and gave it a stack leather handle.
I also lengthened the handle with a stainless pommel and gave it a lanyard hole. The blade is of 440C so it was worth my time doing these modifications. DM
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DM, nice work, especially the hollow grind.
 
I made this blue G10 scale for my TUFF mimicking the stock pattern...

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Modded Opi # 8, handle reshaped and clear coated with polyurethane, file work on the blade spine:

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Waved my ZDP endura 4:

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Old bamboo flooring makes for decent scales on this mini barrage 581...

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Waved and de-flipper'd my zt0561:

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Waved Strider SNG, plus some buddies:
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Gayle Bradley with Blue/Black g10 bubble scales:
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Same GB; with fraggle rock orange g10 pants:
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Ugly Duckling early mod job to a spyderco tenacious; gifted on instagram in a giveaway:
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Opinels with blade/handle mods:
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Large voyager with wave/spanto blade mod:
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Partial blade regrind to a convex recurve on the second knife from the right due to a large chip... :thumbdn::rolleyes::foot:
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Future mod:
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That's it for now LOL... :thumbup::D
 
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These are my two latest ones and I'm very happy with the way they turned out.

This first one is a Buck 111 with S30V drop point that came with laminated oak covers.
I took those off and added this desert ironwood.









This one is a Buck 110 with a BG-42 drop point blade.
It came with a dark laminated wood cover.
I took those off and added Maroon linen Micarta.







 
Blues Bender said:
You've done more than 1 of those, correct? I feel like I've seen one with OD micarta and red liners.

Nonetheless, great work!
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Thank you. Yes, I have done a few of these and some of them even turned out OK! There is a lot of talent here on bf. My hat's off to everyone who has contributed.
 
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