I want to see knives you have personalized youself!

[nccole]

Jimping, lower riding clip, pillars instead of backspacer

 

[loonybin]

Nothing major. Just a RIT dye bath for the grey/black scales on my Rift.

 

[bower23]

I've just started doing this... lot to learn but it's going good so far.

 

[BikerTrash]

Made the thumb disc and backspacer, fine sanded the blade, polished and torched the clip, and anodized the ti liners. Don't know who did the scales, got them in a trade.

 

[Jayphog]

I haven't done much with my ZT 0550, just added a blue/black Hinderer scale, titanium clip, 9 mm lock stabilizer and a lanyard.

 

[willvest98]

cold steel super edge

If you cant see i but a regular edge on one side and gimped it to!

 

[incaorchid]

• Polished Hardware & Standoffs
• Flamed Ti
• Cocobolo Scale
• .45 acp Lockbar Stabilizer
• ... still working on it

 

[Piper Maru]

Here's a cheap Chinese balisong. Pretty poor quality but it has nice solid stainless steel handles.

So I got rid of the blade and the plastic inserts, and replaced them with a new blade I made and citrus wood inserts.

Once again, that is really awesome, wonder what that would look like this rosewood.

 

[Nixelplix]

Rosewood would be great! I had some wood from my folk's orange trees and I wanted to see how it would look. Too bad these pacific sidewinders aren't so easy to find anymore!

 

[wasatchdan]

Stripped, polished, and stippled Becker BK-5.

Becker BK-2 with forced patina and Saint Micarta.

Becker BK-16 stripped, etched, and convexed. Also, wooden scales.

Blackhawk Tatang.

Becker Necker

 

[gooeytek]

Swapped the S30V for CPM-M4, changed out the original torx screws that were prone to stripping, and used standoffs in place of the original aluminum backspacer.
So-Lo rounded the blade spine, forced a patina, and bead-blasted the clip.

 

[GuinnessSynd]

not much but i acid etched and then stonewashed the blade and clip. then sharpened it to scary sharp

 

[Keyman]

Here's a pic of my favorite Benchmade knives.
I have altered all of these in some way. Two are Hybrid knives and all the others have custom scales. The one in the very front of the pic, used to be a full sized Presidio. Until I cut in half to make my Axis Mouse.

 

[Steel130]

My current favorite.
[video=youtube;HCeTcud3z0g]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCeTcud3z0g[/video]

Mirror polished Tenacious taken down to a scotch brite.

Mirror polished Kershaw Packrat
[video=youtube;5WiSUcMllio]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WiSUcMllio[/video]

Put a patina on my Scrapyard Scrapivore.

 

[Jaiofspam]

my 0550

 

[Apec]

Older Entrek Merc with green canvas micarta and a snap rivet in the handle (newer ones use black linen instead of green canvas). I took the beadblast finish (terrible rust magnet) off and gave it a satin finish with sandpaper. One thing I regret though is not using a block to sand the flats, so I ended up softening the grind lines a bit.

 

[kreole]

Some physical mods:

Spyderco M390/CF Military -- Removed some of the handle to make the full choil useful (not quite finished because I ended up cutting my thumb--not while modding--before finishing it and haven't gotten back to it)

Spyderco Gayle Bradley -- Cut down the handle to show the lock bar

Atlantic Salt -- Cut off the snout, added a swedge, and rounded the top of the hollow grind a bit

Spyderco Pacific Salt -- Charlie Mike'd; first attempt so not pretty, but it works

Kershaw OD-1 -- Slight swedge added just to try my hand at it and I rubbed away some of the bead blast finish to get rid of the rust bucket effect that comes with it

Spyderco Super Blue/Gray G10 -- Aged blue handle coloring

Don't really consider anodizing to be much in the way of customizing, but I've done that to a few, too:

Leatherman Charge TTI -- First time taking apart a Leatherman, and it was a bit of a pain

CRKs of various colors/schemes (Mnandi isn't customized, just snuck into the pic)

 

[Chris "Anagarika"]

Not much

Cut waves into the blades

And some polishing during regular maintenance. Not yet able to mirror polish them all, but the surface is smooth enough to make cutting pleasant.

Sometimes I take the stud off as well

 

[kwackster]

Modified Cattaraugus 225Q from WWII which i bought for cheap because it was missing part of the tip and had no sheath.
Reground the tip into something bowie-like, changed the saber grind into a hollow grind zero edge, then applied a 40-ish degrees inclusive convex microbevel & sanded the leather handle to fit my hand.
Now it's one of my favorite and most used outdoor knives.

 

[seelow123]

I don't have the equipment to do big mods to my blade but I still like to do the small stuff.

I made a lockbar stabilizer for me Chokwe and dyed the para red. I actually just got done doing a little somethin' somethin' to the tenacious but haven't taken any pics of it yet.

The tape on the chokwe bade is from my clamp when i was sharpening it.

A few more.