Modified Production Knives (traditional only)

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Almost finished ....

 

This used to be a Gerber Big Rock camp knife. I bought it because I liked the compactness of it, as well as the blade shape.

Soon I found the synthetic slabs that didn't cover the tang rather uncomfortable. So was the pinkie hook, which I believe had a lanyard hole. I don't remember why I de-horned the thumb ramp.
Rehandled in Gibson Guitar walnut off-cut, in as-rasped finish. I like this knife a lot, though I just rediscovered it while looking for something else.
I know Gerber is supposed to have gone to hades after selling to Fiskars, but I don't believe it.

 

Nice job! Does it play like a Gibson? That'll be the test!

 

Here’s a Klein electrician’s knife that I took out the screw driver and re-covered in green crosscut micarta. This was my first attempt at taking apart and re-covering a knife. There’s a lot of room for improvement, but I was very pleased for my first attempt.

 

I've cobbed up a few ratcliffe muskrats recently & fine tuned the profile ... I think these are my best to date:

 

Nice. Those look like they came from the factory like that.

 

@Will Power

 

An A.G. Russell Funny Folder counts as traditional, right?

 

KV - i’d like to see your ratcliffe - any chance u could post a pic ?

 

This knife started out as a Schrade (U.S.A., of course) 123 OT, an Old Timer @ four inches closed, 1095 steel. I bought it from a seller on ebay, I believe also the smith. He re-purposed the brass linerlock from a much larger 125 OT folding hunter and fitted it to this smaller, rather rare knife, then re-handled it in black linen micarta. I like this knife very much.

 

Great stuff! Sorry for the slowish response, been paying little attention these past couple of days

 

The Chappaquiddick?

 

Lol...

 

I posted this a while back in the “what traditional are you carrying” thread but thought I’d post it here. This is my second attempt at a re-cover. Another Klein electrician with rag micarta. It had gotten kind of grimy from carrying it, so I cleaned it up a bit and put a bees wax finish on the scales. We’ll see if that keeps down the grime.

 

Depending on the audience I was thinking 50 years could be too long ago or too soon. I kind of amused myself with it though.

Maybe if it were polished the dirt would have less to attach too. I don’t know how fibrous rag micarta is though.

 

You may be right. It seems pretty smooth, but a bit porous. I thought the wax might fill the pores. Polishing might help, I just didn’t really know what I was doing.

 

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I remember seeing a picture in a satirical British magazine of a shifty looking T.Kennedy looking at an even more shifty R.Nixon...With the cation "Would you like me to drive you home?"

Which proved to me that law does not always apply equally...

A fine conversion too