I'm a habitual tinkerer. Anyone else afflicted?

dza said:
Looks like good work! I would love to do some rehandles but have no idea how to get started learning the technique. Any resources you could point me towards?
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I saw a work in progress thread on here explaining how to do it. It may have been the glennbad one linked above. I think I’ve seen a couple other ones too.

By the way, thank you. I’m happy with how that one came out. I’ve only done a handful. I’ve been happy with most, but not all of them. There’s a learning curve for sure.
 
I've been known to tinker a bit with mine... mine are largely ergonomic mods, like this 71 bullnose that I re-profiled the blade, and ergo'd the handle on.
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I also ergo the Case sowbelly stockmen to make them more comfortable in hand, by profiling the sheepfoot spine, and lowering the clip and sheepfoot. From this...
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to this...
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almost forgot.... I also have changed out handles... this was a TL29, IIRC that had a broken screwdriver blade. I turned it into a single blade that is very similar in size to a GEC 15...

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I love to tinker! Here are some examples:
The metal advertising knife is two similar knives with damage that I combined into one knife. My favorite thing is that two different tang stamps from the same maker (schrade) are on one knife now.
The black Joseph Rodgers was a two blade Jack, I deleted the pen and added micarta covers.
The brown florist knife got new micarta covers after the original celluloid ones started to outgas.
The buck got a reshaped blade and a sharpening choil.
https://imgur.com/E79Ia6X
 
I do some low end tinkering, also can't help myself! The biggest job I've done is fix blade play by peening the pin and re-polishing to mirror. Outside that I'm just doing things like filing kicks/polishing/cleaning/edges. It was a pretty nice feeling to fix blade play!
 
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