Modified Production Knives (traditional only)

Nice work Fausto, I think that looks good (the central liner is known as a 'web' by the way) :thumbup: Here's a knife in very much the same style, but apart from having a chunk out of the edge, it was like this when I got it :thumbup:



 
Well, I think it came out great! Nice work, especially having to improvise with tools.
 
I just completed a mod of a 15 razor boys knife this weekend. Was originally going to do a clip point like on the previous page, but once I started removing steel, I decided to stop early as I thought this blade shape looked unique. The swedge is more aggressive than I originally planned, but I had to cover some mistakes, so the swedge got deeper.


 
Thank you gentlemen. Improvised tools is what we had. No replacement pins, no peening hammer...the good thing was that we were aware of that since the beginning, and I was willing to sacrifice the knife, so we worked without stress on the project.
Jack, I had seen some single bladed versions of this knife posted here, but never saw one for sale anywhere. Also, I assume most of them are carbon steel and I'd rather have a stainless version, so it was easier to modify the one I had, or at least give it a try. No idea the central liner was called "web" though. I think it can be a useful addition as scraping tool, although the reason why it's butt has a different profile are quite mysterious to me :rolleyes:
To be honest, a moment came when the modding frenzy was about to take over me and I thought about making new (wooden) scales, reprofiling the blade into a zulu spear, and stuff like that...in the end, we kept it closer to the original knife (no matter the aesthetics).

Fausto
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BladeCommander said:
I just completed a mod of a 15 razor boys knife this weekend. Was originally going to do a clip point like on the previous page, but once I started removing steel, I decided to stop early as I thought this blade shape looked unique. The swedge is more aggressive than I originally planned, but I had to cover some mistakes, so the swedge got deeper.


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excellent work! im definitely gonna practice before just putting the grinder on. i like a more swept clip
 
Bighaze51 said:
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 [emoji3]



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.
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Just curious, given the original Swinden key construction of the knife, did you drill the bolsters and put standard pivot pins in in order to reassemble the knife?




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Blade Commander, that looks great! The large swedge compliments the flat grind very well, and it looks like a better slicer!

Connor
 
Sorry Fausto I copied your mod, hope you don't mind. I like to have knives I can use and I've had this knife with the marlin spike knocking around for a while now. I don't doubt that the spike in the right hands is a very useful tool, but for me it's superfluous which means the knife was unlikely to have been taken out and used. If the knife was actually WWII era I doubt if I would have made such a drastic mod, but as it isn't I was happy to do so for practical reasons. The only problem I encountered was that, having cut out the section which holds the pin for the marlin spike, the back of the knife became unfixed. I used the pin which held the bail as a means of resolving this problem. The end result is not as pretty as yours Fausto, but this ones a beater for me and is now a useful and practical tool and I'm really happy with it. I think I'll go ahead and file a bit off the heal (correct terminology I think) of the main blade so it sits a bit further down into the frame. I suppose I could have looked around for one without the spike like Jacks, there must be plenty of them out there somewhere, but it wouldn't have been nearly as much fun as making the mods myself. Many thanks...great thread.

- Mark. :thumbup:

Untitled by Blake Blade, on Flickr
Untitled by Blake Blade, on Flickr
 
No, I don't mind :)
I agree that the marlin spike can be just added weight and bulk, depending on how you use the knife. Also, I'm not a great fan of the combo tool on this pattern (other versions have a smaller can opener - screwdriver tool that is probably way more versatile and useful. I also used (re-used, actually) the bail pin to keep the butt of the knife together, although the absence of the pin for the marlin spike gave me some troubles as well. Anyway, these knives seem to be a good dummy for us modding beginners :rolleyes:

Fausto
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Hey Peppercorn, just noticed your question. Yes I did drill the bolsters out and made it pin through contruction.
 
Bighaze51 said:
Hey Peppercorn, just noticed your question. Yes I did drill the bolsters out and made it pin through contruction.
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Gotcha.
I've yet to successfully/satisfactorily repair a Swinden key Schrade without converting it to 'pin through'.
Just curious, did you fill the bolsters with solder in the process?

Also, that one turned out great!

I picked up some of those 80T clips on the auction site myself, here a few months back, for a couple of project knives.


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No i didn't fill the bolsters in. I thought about it but I didn't want to remove the scales from the liners. There is a video on YouTube of a guy repairing and old Uncle Henry the same way. There is still enough meat left in the bolsters to get solid lock up 😃
 
Good reading and info on the Swindens big haze! Oh yeah, great work too!
I really really like Old Timers for take apart knives.

Connor
 
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. I had this Colonial with plastic advertising sides. I made some wood replacements from a piece of elm from the firewood pile.
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Just finished this "Cigar Opinel", love to customize these. Dremeled, sanded, drilled, oiled, baked, oiled, waxed, tied, and into pocket.

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I agree with WhittlinAway, the spear point blade goes perfectly with that cigar-shaped handle. Nice work, Jeff!
 
Notthisfalcon said:
I had this Colonial with plastic advertising sides. I made some wood replacements from a piece of elm from the firewood pile.
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That is one heck of a gussied-up Colonial! How did you affix the slabs of wood? I think I have a very similar knife and I'm trying to figure out if it is a viable option for modding.

jlhoffman74 said:
Just finished this "Cigar Opinel", love to customize these. Dremeled, sanded, drilled, oiled, baked, oiled, waxed, tied, and into pocket.
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Another fine spear conversion and handle mod on an Opi! :thumbup: I wonder if they might feel the impetus to start releasing those #8 garden knife spearpoint blades in carbon (perhaps a new line of #8s would be in order).
 
QUOTE from TsarBomba: "That is one heck of a gussied-up Colonial! How did you affix the slabs of wood? I think I have a very similar knife and I'm trying to figure out if it is a viable option for modding."

I used epoxy to attach the wood. I made the first replacements out of some 100+ year old maple from a barn on our farm. But I didn't like the way they looked after staining so I switched to the elm.
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Picture is the pre-stained maple.
 
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