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Now that is a memorable mod!!...
Voilà, mountain man Opinel
Fantastic, skillful work, rinos! :thumbup::thumbup:- GT
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Wow, very cool!
Voilà, mountain man Opinel
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Here's my first try at a modified knife. Started with a Camillus TL29 and made the bolsters with some brass pipe fittings and my old jeans turned into micarta. Not the best f&f but I enjoyed putting it together!
Love it can you make me one lol
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Here's my first try at a modified knife. Started with a Camillus TL29 and made the bolsters with some brass pipe fittings and my old jeans turned into micarta. Not the best f&f but I enjoyed putting it together!
Awesome job!
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Really cool, I'm modding one of mine with some homemade denim right now too. Should be finished up this weekend, I'll post some pics.
Thats a really clean and cool knife! I love scrounging for parts for my knife making. Everywhere I go I wonder 'Could I make a bolster out of that? Would that make a cool shield inlay?' I like the look of this a lot, it's got that clean and blocky bolster and then the natural and smooth micarta.Here's my first try at a modified knife. Started with a Camillus TL29 and made the bolsters with some brass pipe fittings and my old jeans turned into micarta. Not the best f&f but I enjoyed putting it together!
Connor
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Can you sand sunbright acrylic without losing the the glow in dark to give my hands something to hold on to? And how would I go about doing this? And is it possable to remove the old yellow mark from the blade to make this one perfect
You could always stipple it with a soldering iron, just like folks do with their Glocks.
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Impressive knife making and modifiying pictures everybody!
It took me a while to get two rivets of my handle fixed,
little work but lots of pictures
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Hammering one side flat and checking if the brass pin still fits.
Using a bench to press the back spring in the handle, so I could insert both rivets.
Unfortunately the glued bone handle broke again. Nevertheless I shortened the rivet, hammered it flat and fixed the broken part with super glue.
At the end I filed down the rivets and the glue, and polished everything with fine sandpaper.
It took me a while to get two rivets of my handle fixed,
little work but lots of pictures
.Hammering one side flat and checking if the brass pin still fits.
Using a bench to press the back spring in the handle, so I could insert both rivets.
Unfortunately the glued bone handle broke again. Nevertheless I shortened the rivet, hammered it flat and fixed the broken part with super glue.
At the end I filed down the rivets and the glue, and polished everything with fine sandpaper.
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Finally finished mine up. Here's a before pic
It a Schatt & Morgan gunstock, worm groove bone, ATS-34 steel. The blade had a low saber grind on .139" blade stock (!). It was also super thick behind the edge, making it a terrible cutter. I reground the blade and swedges, acid etched the blade and spring, made some of my own denim micarta, added a lanyard tube, and rat tailed the bolsters. Here is how it looks now.
This was my first time modding a slipjoint, and I'm super happy with the way it came out! It's got to be one of my favorite knives now. There's a work in progress thread here:
http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php/1378572-Slip-joint-disassembly-questions-WIP-pics
It a Schatt & Morgan gunstock, worm groove bone, ATS-34 steel. The blade had a low saber grind on .139" blade stock (!). It was also super thick behind the edge, making it a terrible cutter. I reground the blade and swedges, acid etched the blade and spring, made some of my own denim micarta, added a lanyard tube, and rat tailed the bolsters. Here is how it looks now.
This was my first time modding a slipjoint, and I'm super happy with the way it came out! It's got to be one of my favorite knives now. There's a work in progress thread here:
http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php/1378572-Slip-joint-disassembly-questions-WIP-pics
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Holy crap! Y'all have been busy! I'm glad to see that there are some capable craftsmen still out there. I finally got my 73 and did end up mixing it ever so slightly. I'll post a pic sometime soon when I can take one of it. I wasn't able to pinch it open so I sanded the inside curve of the handle just enough to slow me to pinch grip it. Being left handed, I don't like flipping the knife over to open with the nail nick if I don't have too. My bullnose spoiled me a little on that.
I did get a nice score this weekend though. There is a case knife dealer at an old timey hardware store in North Carolina I've visited a few times. I showed home my blue burlap sodbuster I rehandled and told him about my rebuild projects. The owner proceeds to give me a ziplock bag full of old case knives and a couple other brand knives in various states of needing repair. So I'll have a few more projects coming up soon (a Sabre brand hawkbill being one I'm excited about) but the one I'm working on right now is a 1994 Case 6254 trapper. The clip blade had a broken tip and the mark side scales were cracked. I've only got one pic right now but I'm almost finished with the repair. I disassembled the knife and used fiberglass resin to fill the rocker pin holes. They were enlarged from the scales being damaged. Then once that cured, I filled all the cracks with superglue and reattached them to the liners. I think I'm also going to leave the Spey blade out to make it more pocket friendly. I don't really have much use for the Spey anyways. So, here is a before pic and hopefully within a day or two I'll have some of the finished project
I did get a nice score this weekend though. There is a case knife dealer at an old timey hardware store in North Carolina I've visited a few times. I showed home my blue burlap sodbuster I rehandled and told him about my rebuild projects. The owner proceeds to give me a ziplock bag full of old case knives and a couple other brand knives in various states of needing repair. So I'll have a few more projects coming up soon (a Sabre brand hawkbill being one I'm excited about) but the one I'm working on right now is a 1994 Case 6254 trapper. The clip blade had a broken tip and the mark side scales were cracked. I've only got one pic right now but I'm almost finished with the repair. I disassembled the knife and used fiberglass resin to fill the rocker pin holes. They were enlarged from the scales being damaged. Then once that cured, I filled all the cracks with superglue and reattached them to the liners. I think I'm also going to leave the Spey blade out to make it more pocket friendly. I don't really have much use for the Spey anyways. So, here is a before pic and hopefully within a day or two I'll have some of the finished project
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Finally finished mine up. Here's a before pic
It a Schatt & Morgan gunstock, worm groove bone, ATS-34 steel. The blade had a low saber grind on .139" blade stock (!). It was also super thick behind the edge, making it a terrible cutter. I reground the blade and swedges, acid etched the blade and spring, made some of my own denim micarta, added a lanyard tube, and rat tailed the bolsters. Here is how it looks now.
This was my first time modding a slipjoint, and I'm super happy with the way it came out! It's got to be one of my favorite knives now. There's a work in progress thread here:
http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php/1378572-Slip-joint-disassembly-questions-WIP-pics
Thank You for showing this knife and the process of modifying! The result is fantastic:thumbup:!!
I always wondered how the denim came into micarta, now I could imagine, thanks!
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Really nice work across the board here.
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Thanks guys!