Customized production knives YOU DID YOURSELF

Stumps said:
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.







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Stumps, those are amazing. Dang, ........shoot,..........wow!
 
Simple "mod" if you want to call it that:
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Bought a Kershaw JYD blem, took it to my Kalamazoo, and thinned the thing out. Cuts like a dream:thumbup:.

I also did it to my Richmond Artifex 210 Gyuto in AEB-L steel. Got a lot of workout on Thanksgiving:D.
 
Good Idea for a thread! I enjoy the other "modified production knives" thread but it really turns into an ad space for the professional custom scale makers. More fun to see the homemade & DIY stuff IMO. Here's some of mine.
Tops UTE - stripped the paint, forced a patina, new scales from my own homemade canvas micarta, pinned with s.s. tube, scrap leather sheath.



Old Foster Bros. cleaver I bought for $2- Resin cord wrapped handle, reprofiled blade, sharpened, drilled some holes. Kind of a big camp chopper thing. Now it hags by my fire place, makes kindling really well.
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Joe L. Bachs said:
Good Idea for a thread! I enjoy the other "modified production knives" thread but it really turns into an ad space for the professional custom scale makers. More fun to see the homemade & DIY stuff IMO.
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That Tops UTE looks awesome :thumbup:
 
I'm not sure this qualifies as a modification, but I polished the steel and removed a lot of shoulder off the edge. Probably 10 hours of sandpaper stones and metal polish. 500, 800, 1000, 2000, 3000, 4000, and 5000 grit sandpaper, 4000 and 8000 grit stones, and mothers polish.

my arms hated me for a week after I was done, my tendinitis returned

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Stump, very good work. With clean lines on both the 111 and 110 drop points. Those 111's bolsters are not easy to fit. DM
 
The top knife pictured below is in it's original condition (11" open length). As for the two others-

I replaced the pins with screws (a pivot screw makes it possible to precisely adjust the pivot and remove any side-to-side blade play).

Installed thumbstuds for one-handed opening.

made new handle scales (canvas micarta on the middle, G10 on the bottom).

Custom-fit the locks to the blades to produce a solid lock-up and remove forward-to-back blade play.

Added bronze-phosphorus washers to the pivot.

Blended the bolsters with the liners (the bolsters had rough edges and didn't always match up with the liners).

And on the bottom knife I designed and installed a thumb-release for the lock that allows for one-handed unlocking and closing of the knife (pressing on the front of the release forces the lock back). I ground off the stock lock-release "hump" down on the handle to make the knife feel better in my hand. The bottom two pics are of the lock-release.

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Awesome work on the stilettos.
 
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