Holy wack-a-mole

[tinfoil hat timmy]

Found this one in with some other pork whilst rooting around.

Originally a sus scrofa.

Anyone else take creative liberties?

 

[PABladeGuy]

What happened to the tip?

 

[tinfoil hat timmy]

I whacked it off. It was too difficult to sheathe so I made it more my own.

I love the handle so much that I wanted to carry it every day and now I can.

 

[David Brown]

I did this to a SS years ago

 

[resinguy]

I love the handle so much that I wanted to carry it every day and now I can.

Active Duty. Just saying.

 

[Leonardo63]

Oh let me soak the ground with tears of sadness LOL! ~ On the other hand, Nice drop point letter opener!

 

[Kenneth F Huls]

Holy Cow! (both of you's!)

Yeah, I have posted some of my home mods - but they tend to be butt jobs, scale profiling, thumb ramps, choils, etc.

That said, and coincidentally (or is it?), I did pretty much destroy a Sus Scrofa, myself, in similar but less-successful fashion - and regret it to this day. I love the Sus Scrofa, so it has been replaced several times over. Yet the sting of that one loss remains.

Dave, it was nowheres nearly as skillfully rendered as yours (nice job, BTW, though it loses what I think is so special about the Sus Scrofa in the process).

Timmy, mine looked a bit more like yours, but again, mine was a total fail (unlike yours). Glad you like the fruits of your labors. Hey, function over form, always. That said, if you like the new profile, but would not mind her prettied up a bit, I am sure Josh at REK could do wonders. If you think she is beautiful as is, or don't care, good on ya'!

I did see a really fantastic home mod of a Sus Scrofa once that I admired a lot. It was re-profiled into a sheepsfoot - so it started out nearly there. It looked factory-fresh. Beautiful. I love a good sheepsfoot (see my love for my much-used Randall Cattleman) so I have been pulling for a Buss/kin sheepsfoot release ever since. Still waiting, of course!

 

[Kenneth F Huls]

Active Duty. Just saying.

Well- said. This is precisely what I was thinking and was about to add.

 

[DamascusBowie]

Thats a mean looking SS, sheepsfoot no more, thats a dagger!

 

[tinfoil hat timmy]

Sheepsfoot is what I originally intended, as I probably saw the one you were speaking of and got inspired.

How we got here, just happened.

 

[rwdata]

Your knife, your business. But I can’t help feeling there is a violation there somehow. Enjoy.

 

[OnceBitten]

All this talk of whacking it off, butt jobs, and violation.....I have nothing to add.

....and now...the NHL season is on hold. Please see the paragraph above

 

[David Brown]

Active Duty. Just saying.

two completely different handles. Just saying

 

[David Brown]

Meaner Street butt Mod

Active duty handles

scrofa handles

and one showing the tip and spine diff after the mod with the other below

 

[Kenneth F Huls]

Sheepsfoot is what I originally intended, as I probably saw the one you were speaking of and got inspired.

How we got here, just happened.

HaHa! Likely. And I get it. It is what inspired me, too!

 

[Bigfattyt]

Been trying to host my photos of my old modded SS to imgur all day. Just not working!

 

[Kenneth F Huls]

Meaner Street butt Mod

Great tutorial, Dave. Thanks. I have never had a Meaner Street or Active Duty, and from casual observation of them pictured separately I had never really seen or noticed the differences from each other and from the Sus Scrofa.
I have a Custom Shop Sus Scrofa with a round butt and talon like pictured above. I like it better that way and have been thinking of modding my stock Sus Scrofa to match it there.

 

[Kenneth F Huls]

Been trying to host my photos of my old modded SS to imgur all day. Just not working!

what mods?

 

[Bigfattyt]

Made it a straight edge....

Stripped and convexed.

 

[Kenneth F Huls]

Made it a straight edge....

Stripped and convexed.

I would love to see it. I tried during the aforementioned fail.