Customized production knives YOU DID YOURSELF

[Elite_KG]

Good job with that one. Thats the kind of mods I like.

 

[blade dude]

added some more jimping to my delica after not having enough grip while halfway down a hill tied to a fence post by a rope with wet hands.


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[Agartha Audio]

Just chopped this CRKT Jettison (lrg) into a mid (~3" blade, 4" handle). Also deepened the front choil to accomodate a finger. Here are some pics:

 

[SunOfAtom]

I decided to make my 0562 a little more XM-like, and I am really enjoying the changes. So far I have added a forward finger choil, softened the detent, ground back the scale around the stop pin and did some minor blade reshaping. The knife now opens easily with either push-button or light-switch methods of the flipper tab, as well as using the blade stop as a thumb stud. At some point I'll look into having someone either replace the blade stop or machine some steps into it.

 

[Knurling_turtle]

How would you go about chamfering and then polishing the edges of aggressively sharp spydie holes?

 

[James w]

How would you go about chamfering and then polishing the edges of aggressively sharp spydie holes?

What do you mean? Is the edge on the inside of the spyderco hole to sharp?

 

[Knurling_turtle]

What do you mean? Is the edge on the inside of the spyderco hole to sharp?

I'd like to round off the inside edges on the Spydie holes on my Delica, Dominos, and Native to make them feel more like the rounded edges on my Slyze Bowie.

 

[killgar]

I'd like to round off the inside edges on the Spydie holes on my Delica, Dominos, and Native to make them feel more like the rounded edges on my Slyze Bowie.

A few ideas for doing a uniformed job-

If you have a drill press or access to one, get yourself a round grinding/deburring bit slightly larger than the hole you're working on. They're basically a man-made abrasive stone shaped like a ball and mounted on a metal rod. Stick it in the chuck of the press, clamp your blade down, lower the chuck, and start grinding.

Another option is to use a ball bearing, marble, or wooden bead larger than the hole, wrap the ball-shaped item with a wet piece of wet/dry sandpaper, and start twisting it in the hole. I'd probably start with around 220 or 320 grit. Other objects could also work as a "sanding block", they just need to be somewhat hard, round or rounded, and be larger than the hole. Naturally this method would take a lot longer than using the one I mentioned above. I think that arts and crafts stores sell large wooden beads, and possibly marbles of different sizes as well.

If I wanted to chamfer the edges of a Spydie hole, those are the methods I would consider.

 

[HeavyHanded]

I have crowned the barrel on a Romanian AK and my Mosin using a carriage bolt and some diamond lapping paste. I sanded off the raised manufacturing ID, chuck it in a hand drill and keep it moving in a figure 8.

In place of the diamond paste, some silicon carbide grit and oil would work, or you can make a thick paste by scraping off a bunch of crayon-type compound and mixing it with a drop of oil. For that matter a small piece of wet/dry and some oil pressed down with the head of a carriage bolt would probably be a lot more simple - it doesn't need to be as precise as a barrel crown...

 

[jalapeno]

This is a great thread and there are some very talented people on this forum. It would be great if some of you could post sort of a photo-pictorial of the process and tools you used, starting from the base material slabs through the intermediate stages of cutting the outline shape to the finished product.

Are most of you doing this entirely by hand with Foredom or Dremel tools? Or are some of you using a CNC router setup?

I think I'd like to try my hand at some of the laminated multi-color scales except using different woods instead of the engineered materials. Other than creating the laminated blanks, I'm not really sure of the process and tools.

thanks.