Modified Production Knives (traditional only)

Ahhhh you got me, we bought a new rental house and I've been working on that around the clock, and working at the golf course.
Just for you I'll finish that frontier this week :D. Tomorrow im taking the day off as I have an interview at the big orange box in the afternoon. I'll work on it in the morning. I did fix my Mora and further modify my Opi. Here's the Opi

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I posted in the lounge about my toolbox I've been working on too, it's taking a good amount of time stitching heavy canvas by hand, but I'm getting closer and closer.


Connor
 
Ugh, forecast says rain so tomorrow I'm siding the house in the morning. I might get some work done however.

Connor
 
I hear ya man. It's hard finding time to work on the fun projects. My wife just came home from being out of town for a week so my extra time is spent with her and my son. I'm not complaining though. And I'm building a guitar with my uncle. I did find time to dye my case trapper black too. I think I like it better this way

 
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i like knife but delrin scales where bit short....and that bothered me,a lot :mad:

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i had very small piece of micarta laying around so i tried to squeeze pair of scales from it,not quite successful but improvement,in my eyes at least.

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it was reallly small :)
implanted piece of bone is at least 70 years old(part of broken scale from old Eskilstuna folder)
 
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Cool, great mod, was this your first? I would have done the bone inlay on the other side also!
 
glennbad said:
Cool, great mod, was this your first? I would have done the bone inlay on the other side also!
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thanks,noting near your work :thumbup:
i made couple easy ones,
piece of micarta was just 5-6 mm short for both scales,and bone was all that remained from old folder scale,this was easiest solution to satisfied rules of SWMBO(no power tools or dust on balcony :D )

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bone belonged to this one,unfortunately i got it with just half of one scale :( according to tang stamp it is from Hadar Adalbert Hallström (1853-1928)).
 
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i like knife but delrin scales where bit short....and that bothered me,a lot :mad:

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i had very small piece of micarta laying around so i tried to squeeze pair of scales from it,not quite successful but improvement,in my eyes at least.

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it was reallly small :)
implanted piece of bone is at least 70 years old(part of broken scale from old Eskilstuna folder)
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That's a nice save right there. Good job!

I just finished up my latest project. This Old Timer belonged to my dad. I remember it sitting I a drawer with tape holding the blades in when I was a child. My father had the intentions of sending it back to Schrade and having it repaired but it never happened. 25 years later, enter the knife tinkering son. So I stole the knife from my dad several years ago with plans to repair it for him but never followed through. About a month ago, one of my friends from church brings me a knife he found on the football field from the school he works at. The scales are in bad condition but the Spey and sheepfoot blades are still in decent condition. Both the clip blades on dads knife and the other one are well worn down. So I found some new old stock blades on the big auction site and bought them with plans to make one good knife from 2 and a half. So I began by dismantling both knives. You can see in the picture I have them dismantled and the new blade ready to go. The blades came stamped out with the makers mark but still needed to be ground. I used my Harbor Frieght 1x30 to grind the main bevel on the blade


Here are the parts marked out so I can remember how to put it back together 😀



And here is the knife put back together and semi polished up for my dad





I just gave it to my dad and he was pretty excited. He bought this knife in the late 70's I think when he worked at a sawmill and used the crap out of it. So hopefully it will last him many years to come.
 
I see I haven't posted in this thread. The only work of this kind I've done is re-profile the blade on a POS Imperial fish knife that had the blade tipped. Certainly no big deal.

However I do have a few that were modified by others. Let's start out with a couple of Electrician Knives by a fella you all know, Glennbad. Glenn has re-handled a few others for me but I'm sorry to say I had work done by three or four others so I don't remember which ones are Glenn's work and which ones are done by someone else. Should have kept track but it's too late now. I also have a Camillus 23 in Glenn's work queue but you all know what a busy fella he is so it may be a while before I get to display it.
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Rob also put together this Camillus 72 Frankenknife for me as a surprise gift. He used a Stockman sheepfoot blade in place of the coping blade and Whitetail antler handles. He also put a regular clip blade in it instead of the 72 clip blade and a pen blade on the cap end instead of the small clip. Another of my favorites.
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Rob did this Frankenknife for me at my request. I had him replace the small clip blade on a Camillus 72 with a small screwdriver/cap lifter. It's my EDC. Are you starting to notice a theme here? :D
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This one was a surprise gifted to me by Dale Vincent (orvet). Made my jaw drop. What a guy and what a knife. I believe this one started life as an Electrician's Knife too.
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I think that's enough for now.
 
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Any one got a picture of the 15 someone modded? It was a razor 15 no end cap, modded to a clip point, sold by Bob "Bigbiscuit". Thanks!
 
So....
After a long while, I decided to give myself a try and modify a knife on my own. Sending it out for modding wasn't worth it, and I thought it would be fun to challenge myself, so today I spent a good part of the afternoon modding my gardening (and dirty tasks) knife. Here's the knife when it was new (basically, it's a modern copy of a navy knife):

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Lately, I realized that I had little use for the marlin spike, and the combo tool was often in the way when using the sheepsfoot blade, so the plan was taking both away and leaving just the blade and the screwdriver/scraper end in place. I took advantage of my uncle's garage. He works as a sculptor and smith, so he's far more used to working with metal than me, and has quite alot of tools. Yet, in the end we found out that all of his tools are actually way more useful when working with bigger things, so in the end a huge part of the job was done by hand with simple tools.
I can't say I'm totally happy with the result, yet it's been a nice afternoon, I learned many things from my first modding, and value even more Glenn and others here who are able to perform amazing work when modifying a slipjoint.
Tearing the knife apart was big trouble, since we had no access to new pins and had to recycle the pre-existing ones. No peening hammer, so all the work was done with a small regular hammer, and so on. Also, only when I reassembled the knife I realized that the middle liner )the one with the screwdriver end) had a different profile than the side liners (no idea why). The result, though (although not pretty at all: glued crack on one side - when it cracked, I thought about making new wooden covers, then I decided to leave the old ones - slightly off center blade, and a few other aesthetical flaws) is in perfect working conditions and is ready to be put to use:

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Fausto
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Thank you Mike. I'm positive that if I had left out the extra liner (the screwdriver/scraper one), the knife would look way better and the spine would be flush or almost flush :rolleyes:
Yet, this is the knife I wanted to have, and although it's aesthetically not so nice, functionally it's pretty good and that's more than enough for today :)

Fausto
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