First BK2! What were your out of the box mods?

RogueBowie

RogueBowie

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So I have a modest knife collection, a mid range folder, a mora no. 2, a ka-bar heavy bowie, but I had yet to get my hands on a BK2 until a couple ofdays ago. Now I finally have one, which I am very happy with, but of course I had to throw a couple immediate mods on there. First I did Adam from E2E's trick (that I believe he got from someone else) of soaking some paracord and then wrapping my sheath, which as we all know tightened up when it dried thus providing extra sheath retention as well as some emergency cordage. I also added a lanyard as well, as well as ranger banding the handle. A buddy of mine does wood work but I wanted some extra grip on the handle in the mean time as he moves like a turtle and it may be awhile before I have my custom scales. This was all within the first few hours of getting it home.
I was just curious what everyone else's 'immediate' mods were to their BK2s or other Beckers before they went out and either bought some new upgrades or did work on it themselves, their 'can't wait gotta do something to it right now' improvements (not to say such a work of art needs much impovement). If people seem interested in this thread I will post a few pics of my BK2 after it's immediate mods, I've been too lazy to take any yet.
Unless you guys are tired of pictures of Becker knives? (jk)
 
Post em, I'm waiting on my first Becker, the bk2 so I'm interested in the mods as well.
 
I will definitely post pics tomorrow or day after, fiancee and daughter are sleeping and camera and knife are located in noisy areas.
 
I stripped the blade within 24 hours of getting mine.

Enjoy your new knife, she's a beauty!!!
 
With the paracord mod, why would you want more retention on the sheath? Ours was almost impossible to remove as is out if the box.
Ours was stripping, new sheath, and micarta in my case, wood looks and feels excellent too.
 
Strip it, patina, put some micarta on, find a new sheath and you have mid knife perfection
 
CRKS kydex sheath, simple 550 lanyard, and marathonman cocobolo scales.
 
I didn't do anything, left it stock. First thing I did to though, after about a year, is reprofiled the edge and convexed it. Also stipled the end of the handle just a bit to help when only holding on with three fingers on the end for chopping.

Ditched the sheath backing, used parachute cord as belt loops.
 
my first mod was to take that sucker to some wood !!!! :D

I thrashed it up a bit then as the coating wore off and it needed sharpening I stripped it (blade only) squared the spine,added some file work to the spine, jimping,patina, convexed it to zero then eventually sold it.. so I'm left feeling lonely ... :)

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Think my only BK2 mod has been to knock off a little of the coating while chopping or batoning through something. :D

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Beckerhead #42
 
Per my post above, this was what my BK2 looked like pretty much right after I got it.
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thatotherguy said:
With the paracord mod, why would you want more retention on the sheath? Ours was almost impossible to remove as is out if the box.
Ours was stripping, new sheath, and micarta in my case, wood looks and feels excellent too.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwRmffbnHsA Saw that a few days ago it looked like a good idea.
 
Changed the scales, and got a decent sheath by R. jones and modified the factory sheath and got rid of the ridiculous dangler thing and got a inside the pants clip and a survival tin pouch.

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