Modified Production Knives (traditional only)

Here is the next one from my bag of goodies. This is an old Sabre brand hawkbill that was left in a tackle box or something. Pretty rusted and useless in its current condition


So I've taken it apart and started cleaning up all the rust. I decided to use a piece of old growth heart pine that one of my buddies gave me. I figured this is an old timey farmers knife so why now use some old timey farmer wood. I've got one liner glued together drilled and sanded. Unfortunately, I left the other one at work so I'll mess with the other side tomorrow. Anyways, here is the progress so far

 
Haze, great work! That case looks like an improved version of their single blade like that, as it lacks a rear bolster. Pretty bone too.

I love how the Sabre is looking, that pine is purdy!

Connor
 
Thanks Conner, I'm pretty excited about this one. I started piecing it together today but one of my pins started to bend over. And then I ran out of time on my lunch break. I also wasn't very happy about the entire fit of the knife. The gaps between the liners and spring were bigger than i could really tolerate so I'm going to do a little bit more flat sanding before completing the knife. The case has been in my pocket every day since its "rebirth" 😀
 
Okay fellas, here is the Bighazedified Sabre hawkbill back from the brink of death. I got her put back together last night, applied a few coats of Formsby's tung oil. Then I sharpened the blade, reprofiling the tip a little and added a swedge. Here it is fresh off the buffing wheel. It's got one little knick by the front pin. That's what I get for using pine for the scales but all in all I'm pretty happy with the results. Especially for a knife that most people would have tossed in the trash




And here is a closer shot of the wood grain.

 
Bighaze51 said:
Okay fellas, here is the Bighazedified Sabre hawkbill back from the brink of death. I got her put back together last night, applied a few coats of Formsby's tung oil. Then I sharpened the blade, reprofiling the tip a little and added a swedge. Here it is fresh off the buffing wheel. It's got one little knick by the front pin. That's what I get for using pine for the scales but all in all I'm pretty happy with the results. Especially for a knife that most people would have tossed in the trash

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Very nice job! :thumbup: You've given that poor old hawkbill a new lease on life, looking better than it did when new. I love the grain in that wood. :)
 
Thank you! I hope to be modifying and rebuilding much more in the future. I almost forgot this knife had a bail with it too. I think I'll clean it up and pop it back I there as well. My next project is to rescale my case medium stockman in yellow delrin with the scales from a 1981 model with really worn bone scales. I'm hoping that it all matches up
 
Haze, that looks even better! I really like how the pins are placed (not that you had a hand in it), it's quite interesting with the lanyard hole. Kinda draws the eye around the rear. Looks great! Got any other projects in the pipe?



Connor
 
Thanks Glenn!! You've done some amazing saves yourself

Conner, yes I do have more in the works. I posted up above about my case medium stockman I'm planning to rework. I've got the scales and liners removed from the old knife and I'm hoping I can just switch them out with my newer one. The only other thing is I'm not to fond of the coloring on the old bone covers so I'm planning to dye them black before completing the transplant. I'm also in the middle of building a Martin kit guitar with my uncle so hopefully I can find time to do all this next week while my wife is out of town. 😃😃

Byron
 
Okay ladies and gentleman,here is the next victim to be "Bighazedified". I've got the old case liners pulled apart and cleaned with degreaser. I'm going to Walmart in a little bit to pick up some black Rit dye to dye the scales. And then, hopefully pull off a successful transplant to my stockman with yellow delrin. I'll report back again in a little while.

 
Okay next update: here are the scales after the initial dye job


And here is the knife reassembled. The dye didn't hold like I was hoping so it's running another cycle in the pot right now. After buffing the entire knife, some of the dye came out. It still looks good but I was hoping for jet black. So I cleaned it with oven cleaner again and ran some 0000 steel wool over the bone to help open up some of the polished pores a little. We shall see how this run turns out.


Oh, and for a future reference, I had the same model as the original knife with worn down blades that I gave to my brother from 1980. I contacted Case about replacement of the blades and they said they no longer have the tooling to do that. But you will notice that the blades from the 2013 model matched up perfectly on this one. Go figure 😃
 
Very sharp! I've got good, snow free weather ahead this week so ill be getting my frontier finished hopefully.


Connor
 
The Guidelines for the Traditional Forum are "no clips. No one-hand openers." The exception is the "modern/traditional pairs" thread.
 
knarfeng said:
The Guidelines for the Traditional Forum are "no clips. No one-hand openers." The exception is the "modern/traditional pairs" thread.
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OK sorry !! now I know.
I can always remove the clip if I want.
I guess the next time I show it for any reason I just won't mention or show the pocket clip.
I'm also not 100% sure if I'm gonna leave it like this anyway, so I may remove it and fill in the holes after trying it out for a while.
 
Hickory n steel said:
OK sorry !! now I know.
I can always remove the clip if I want.
I guess the next time I show it for any reason I just won't mention or show the pocket clip.
I'm also not 100% sure if I'm gonna leave it like this anyway, so I may remove it and fill in the holes after trying it out for a while.
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You could always show it from the other side. Kind of a "Don't ask. Don't tell thing."
 
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