Modified Production Knives (traditional only)

[BigBiscuit]

In the barlow thread, I thought it was a wharncliff, but now that you called it a slim Zulu, I see it. Even better Mark. Very nice. :thumbup:

 

[EyeDog]

I hope Mike will be equally pleased.

I am thrilled. It's a real treasure.

Mike

 

[jrtodd46]

How would you go about "refreshing" the jigged bone on an older knife? I want to darken it up a bit.

 

[BigBiscuit]

How would you go about "refreshing" the jigged bone on an older knife? I want to darken it up a bit.

How about a nice warm tea bath?

 

[jrtodd46]

I had thought about that, I was just seeing if there were other options. I'll probably start with tea.

 

[daizee]

WOW, you guys are making some gorgeous stuff out of gorgeous stuff.

 

[EyeDog]

I had thought about that, I was just seeing if there were other options. I'll probably start with tea.

Turn it into a smooth bone. I did this with a Northwoods large jigged bone toothpick.

 

[jrtodd46]

That's a cool idea! Maybe a little more than I was wanting to do, but cool none the less!

 

[philllll]

Lots of different dyes would work. Leather dye, furniture stain, potassium permagnate, RIT dye...

Just make sure to wash it really well before and after. You want to get all of the oils off the surface before dying so it takes evenly, and afterwards you want to get the leftover dye off the surface so it doesn't rub off on your hands or pockets. Then finish it off with some mineral oil or something similar.

 

[B.F.U]

That looks fantastic, ALLHSS! [emoji106][emoji106]
I saw your knife in another thread (maybe "what trad. are you totin' today?"; been busy at work so there's kind of a backlog of posts I'm trying to catch up on and I'm not reading things in chronological order, so it's all kinda weird ) and wondered if I'd ever seen that mod before. I'm glad I found this post instead of posting a question in that other thread.
But anyway, I think it looks very cool!
I think I'm one of those people who likes EO notches in sleeveboardish knives regardless of what blade shapes a knife has.

jlhoffman, your EO mods also look pure professional! [emoji106][emoji106] (I love that top picture.)

- GT

Thanks GT!

 

[jrtodd46]

Lots of different dyes would work. Leather dye, furniture stain, potassium permagnate, RIT dye...

Just make sure to wash it really well before and after. You want to get all of the oils off the surface before dying so it takes evenly, and afterwards you want to get the leftover dye off the surface so it doesn't rub off on your hands or pockets. Then finish it off with some mineral oil or something similar.

Thanks for the heads up. I appreciate it a lot.

 

[cnas122]

Get Mr. Kerry Hampton to trick out some Case knives for you. A little re-grinding and a bit of acid....tada....awesome, sharp knives

 

[supratentorial]

The backpocket in the beginning of the thread was also done by Kerry. I'd love to have a 3-blade CV Case sowbelly reground by Kerry but I've been too shy to ask.

 

[cairndude]

I don’t use my nails to open my slipjoints, and since there is virtually no pinchable area on the New Day blade when closed, an EO notch was a necessity for me.

The New Day is my most expensive traditional, so I did a practice notch on an inexpensive Colt slipjoint with brass liners with good results. I thought about doing another practice notch on one of my #15 Boys Knives with steel liners, but I felt comfortable with the process and proceeded directly to the New Day.

I used my #15 Scout as a model for notch placement and depth, but found out that I needed a slightly larger notch (approx. 1 mm deeper than the notch on the Scout) on the New Day to give me the pinchable area that I needed.

The notched bone is slightly lighter than the adjacent unnotched bone, and I’m going to leave it that way and see if darkens naturally with carry and use.

 

[paulhilborn]

You did a great job on your EO notch:thumbup:

 

[BigBiscuit]

You did a great job on your EO notch:thumbup:

Agreed. Nice clean work. :thumbup:

 

[Ryouchijtx]

Looks great cairndude Did you re-dye the ground down bone at all with a stain maker or tea?

 

[BigBiscuit]

Looks great cairndude Did you re-dye the ground down bone at all with a stain maker or tea?

Read the last line of his post Tim.

 

[CROWEMAG]

Did a little modding for a fellow member today on a #56 Dogleg.




I did a quick little touch up on one of my own. The unground pivot pins on the #15 Electrician always annoyed me for some reason. So I took matters into my own hands. Turned this (on left);



Into this;

Biscuit, great work! Can you explain how you did this and with what tools? Thanks!

 

[BigBiscuit]

Biscuit, great work! Can you explain how you did this and with what tools? Thanks!

I can post it, but not here. It needs to go into another subforum; Maintenance, Tinkering, and embellishments. I use a different method, but the short answer is a Dremel with a sanding drum.