Modified Production Knives (traditional only)

WhittlinAway said:
Neat r8shell r8shell ! What a fun idea.

It looks like that glow in the dark powder comes in a lot of other colors as well. Any plans to sneak a little into the layers of your faux-bone handle? :)
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Anything's possible. Hmm, maybe a secret "shield" that only appears in the dark. ;)
 
r8shell said:
I decided to try a silly experiment involving epoxy and glow-in-th-dark powder.

I started with a knife my friend @LEGION 12 sent me in a box of various old knives. The tang stamp just says U.S.A., but I suspect it's a Colonial, judging by the construction:
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I mixed the glow powder with the epoxy, and used an old Schrade shield @Codger_64 once sent me to mold an impression. View attachment 743098
View attachment 743100 I filled in the impression with the green glow powder, and let it set. Then filed and sanded the covers to refine the shape.
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Like I said, it was a silly experiment, but I learned a lot for next time. I need to learn how to mix epoxy without getting a lot of bubbles. They really show since I used a powder that's neutral colored. It's OK though, since I like the "cheap toy knife" effect. Next time, I want to try a faux-bone handle using brown pigment that will look more solid. If I mix various amounts of color as I build up layers, I think it'll look more like natural bone. I'll probably use the actual shield in something like that.
Thanks Codger and Legion!
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Maybe try some casting epoxy next time? It has a longer set up time and might give the bubbles a better chance of dissapating.
Oh and where did you get your glow powder? I have a place nearby that sells the industrial USA made stuff but it's always good to find other sources.

I've wanted to make a glow handle knife for awhile and this might just get me off my butt to do so.
 
r8shell said:
I decided to try a silly experiment involving epoxy and glow-in-th-dark powder.

I started with a knife my friend @LEGION 12 sent me in a box of various old knives. The tang stamp just says U.S.A., but I suspect it's a Colonial, judging by the construction:
View attachment 743095
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I mixed the glow powder with the epoxy, and used an old Schrade shield @Codger_64 once sent me to mold an impression. View attachment 743098
View attachment 743100 I filled in the impression with the green glow powder, and let it set. Then filed and sanded the covers to refine the shape.
View attachment 743102 View attachment 743103
Like I said, it was a silly experiment, but I learned a lot for next time. I need to learn how to mix epoxy without getting a lot of bubbles. They really show since I used a powder that's neutral colored. It's OK though, since I like the "cheap toy knife" effect. Next time, I want to try a faux-bone handle using brown pigment that will look more solid. If I mix various amounts of color as I build up layers, I think it'll look more like natural bone. I'll probably use the actual shield in something like that.
Thanks Codger and Legion!
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Very cool Rachel. :cool: You may have just discovered the next big knife cover material. :)
 
Neko2 said:
Maybe try some casting epoxy next time? It has a longer set up time and might give the bubbles a better chance of dissapating.
Oh and where did you get your glow powder? I have a place nearby that sells the industrial USA made stuff but it's always good to find other sources.

I've wanted to make a glow handle knife for awhile and this might just get me off my butt to do so.
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Yeah, I really should look into a better type of epoxy. What happens is I get a "brilliant" idea, and start with materials at hand because if I wait, I'll never get around to actually doing anything. You guys just never see the complete disasters. :D
The powder came from readysetglo.

r redden said:
Very cool Rachel. :cool: You may have just discovered the next big knife cover material. :)
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:) I doubt it, but thanks. :D
 
Pretty small mod this time, but what a difference! I took off the front "guard" from my Fantoini Dweller. I'm smitten with the knife, despite the weird blade/handle raatio. The blade shape and paper thin grind should make it an awesome whittler, especially with the large handle... but with my big hands crowding up to get a good grip, that little wart of a finger guard dug right into my index finger and gave me a raw spot in about 15 minutes of whittling. Much closer in profile to the Lone Wolf City Knife, it feels absolutely perfect in-hand now! It's amazing what a difference a small mod can make :D
 

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mbp said:
May I ask a question of the modders on this thread? Do you think it'd be possible to re-grind a GEC #15 One-Arm down to a clip point? I think the profile might be there, but it's close. Any opinion would be much appreciated.

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A couple different pics of one I did...

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mbp said:
May I ask a question of the modders on this thread? Do you think it'd be possible to re-grind a GEC #15 One-Arm down to a clip point? I think the profile might be there, but it's close. Any opinion would be much appreciated.

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they can, a few of us have attempted this mod, with the one by bigbiscuit being one of the better attempts. mine wasnt very good and I think i ended up gifting the knife away
 
Ramrodmb said:
My first attempts, a few years back, on a couple tl29s
Imperial with Bocote
Camillus with Ebony
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Mark, looks like great work to me, especially for a first time! Nice fit at the bolsters, flush pins and nicely hafted handle material.

R8shel, very interesting idea, looks like it worked out nicely.

Dan
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OK, I give up, have tried to edit 12 times to get my typing out of the quote box?
Dan
 
Nice mod! I assume you know the background regarding the 3 notches...
 
Without straying down the religion road, I had read that in the Jewish culture, the notches were to signify use of the knife for certain food prep. One kind of knife for meat, one kind for dairy. That sort of thing. Or it could be just a neat way to mark your knife to keep someone else from taking it. ;)
 
glennbad said:
Without straying down the religion road, I had read that in the Jewish culture, the notches were to signify use of the knife for certain food prep. One kind of knife for meat, one kind for dairy. That sort of thing. Or it could be just a neat way to mark your knife to keep someone else from taking it. ;)
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That's the tradition I'd read about, though I doubt that's what these marks are. I don't think that big ol' pruner would make a good dairy and fish knife. ;)
 
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