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How to heat treat your Kershaw Leek!

Moxy

Moxy

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Okay, so, here is my uber rare Kershaw Cocobolo leek. They're are only 2 of these in existence. Nutnfancy owns the other one. It has a sweet mini tanto tip and a gorgeous iron oxide speckle pattern on the blade. It's the perfect knife! The only problem I'm having with it is it doesn't hold an edge very well dispite being made from the ultra strong 981-PDZ stainless tool steel. I guess they just forgot to heat treat it at the factory. Not to worry! I have a solution.

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[video=youtube;ZfYcH9z8pfc]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfYcH9z8pfc[/video]

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The only problem is now it's a fixed blade. :grumpy:

/* Spoiler. No it's not a real Leek, see later pics. Just a bit of fun destroying a worthless knockoff. :) */
 
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How'd you get the iron oxide coating to be so even?

I woulda been happy to take the knife off your hands pre-destruction ;)
 
How the tip strength now? It looks as though the heat was less effective there..
 
It's also got a composite pivot now. You may welded the 981-PDZ to the 014 steel liners with the PB washers as the filler.

What did you have it hooked up to? I'd think the Leek would be a near dead short if it was just a simple electrical circuit. Wrecks havoc on most power sources...
 
flarp said:
What did you have it hooked up to? I'd think the Leek would be a near dead short if it was just a simple electrical circuit. Wrecks havoc on most power sources...
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It's a transformer from a microwave with a rewound secondary. Short circuit current is probably around 800 amps. You can see the old removed coil in the background of the second pic.
 
I'm referring to the leek. It doesn't seem like the same screw pattern or the amount of lockbar cutout isn't the same as mine. Just something I noticed. If I'm wrong please correct me!
 
Lol I about hurt myself when I ran across this. Just don't do it to any real Leeks:thumbup:
 
If you can make an induction coil with that you'd have one of the best systems possible for heat treating high alloy steel. I am envious.
 
For those curious about the scale... no you don't want it.
The knife is a POS garbage knockoff of a kershaw leek. But it's bigger than the real Leek. I've had it forever. Blade is made from crap, didn't center, tip broke off, rusty, too dull to be a door stop. So don't grieve over a cheap Chinese POS knockoff. lol

So yeah this was a joke.... hehe

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