Glennbad is a baaaad man

I love looking at the transformations in this thread, it makes me even more anxious to get mine back!
 
Here's a fun one that I have had on my bench for around a year. I picked it up for around $10. Very snappy, a 291 pattern, but had some wear and corrosion. I decided to mod it and clean up the blades a bit. Couldn't remove all the blade corrosion without removing a ton of metal, so I did what I could, and maybe I can put a nice patina on the blades. Covers are amber stag.

Here is the before and after.






 
well this acknowledgement has been a long time coming. Late last year I sent Glenn an 82 dixie stockman with marroon linen licarta covers and asked him to indulge me with a rebuild. Here's a borrowed pic of the stock knife:



I wanted to turn it into a shadow stockman in the spirit of the old Schrades with yellow delrin. We decided to opt for a butterscotch yellow paper micarta with brass bird's eye pivots and a custom arrow shield reminiscent of one I found on a very old jack knife. Glenn knocked this one out of the park. Before this knife arrived I had boxed up all of my knives for our move to our new home and everything has been left in boxes for the last 6 weeks or so. Luckily Glenn's work of art arrived just in the nick of time and has been my sole pocket knife during that time. It went straight to work cutting down boxes, scraping window sills and baseboards, and cutting up my dinner. Here she is:









Thank you again Glenn! I couldn't be more pleased with this one.
 
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That Butterscotch M is great looking stuff! So good I might find myself gnawing on it.....:cool::D:D

The Dixie has a wonderful blade assortment, but I would really like to see GEC offer the same on a smaller frame, 66 say or even smaller.
 
I just want to say I put a special to me knife into the mail to Glenn today. My Grandfather entered the Navy just before WWII started and was stationed at Perl Harbor with my Grandmother and my Mom that was an infant at the time. They were there when Perl Harbor was attacked. This was the knife he was issued. He gave it to me when about 44 years ago I was maybe 14. He died when I was in college. Over the years the covers shrank and when I took it out earlier this week to take some photos for a friend they fell apart in my hands. Its going to be a number of months before Glenn works through his backlog to get to it but we can expect great "after" photos then. I am not in a rush and so its not a problem waiting for Glenn to work his magic!

Before:
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Here's a recent build. A Camillus stockman. New NS liners, and some nice stag to dress it out.


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After




 
Wow, nice Glenn. That stag is so perfectly matched. Must have been a chore to place the shield, huh?
 
LastRodeo said:
Wow, nice Glenn. That stag is so perfectly matched. Must have been a chore to place the shield, huh?
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As we have seen, shields and stag don't mix well. But I guess once you start, you can't go back. Yeah, I got lucky and it came out pretty decent.
 
glennbad said:
As we have seen, shields and stag don't mix well. But I guess once you start, you can't go back. Yeah, I got lucky and it came out pretty decent.
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I think it came out great. The matching of the stag is better then most of the factory jobs. The shield also came out nice but can understand how that could easily go wrong. Excellent work!
 
I'm pretty stoked about how this one came out. I love this Norfolk, but was getting tired of the original covers. I had a small set of amber stag scales, so i decided to give it a go. I'm in love with this knife all over again!

A little before and after....







 
Really nice work on that Norfolk! Amber stag is one of my favorites.
 
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