I really like the looks of the BK-5 Magnum Camp but it's a really big knife. Most of my "camping" is with the family in a campground somewhere and I can just see some soccer mom passing out when I get out the BK-5. When the Tweeners came out and I saw the BK-15, I had to get it. I dont post here a lot but I have been reading a lot here lately and saw several threads by Clich and others on stripping/modding Beckers so I figured I'd give it a try.
Mar-Hyde stripper and a bondo scraper from Advance Auto and the coating is history. This is the second application of stripper after 15 minutes and scraping what I could off. 30 minutes total time to strip it.
My knife sanding set-up: Here we are at 400 grit; I started at 220, then 400, then 800, 1500, and finally 3000 using WIndex for wet sanding.
Time for some new scales. Stabilized Walnut from Mark at Burl Source.I didnt have any suitable wood scales so this block will have to be split into scales. One plus to ding it this way is that I can drill the holes now and they will be aligned correctly. Blade is temporarily super-glued to the block to drill teh 1/8" holes.
Here the block is glued and clamped to a scrap board for ripping into scales. I like entering and leaving the shop with all 10 fingers and this set-up keeps your fingers safely away from the miter saw blade. The square shows that it is clamped at a true 90 degrees, very important since I already drilled the holes.
Scales are 95% and blade is wet-sanded to 3000 grit. I forgot to take a pic but I didn't want to use the stock nuts on the right side so I got some 8-32 furniture nuts at the hardware store and countersunk and epoxied them on the back side of the right scale.
into my etching tank which has Radio Shack Etching solution diluted to 4:1. I ended up doing 3 etchings at 5 minutes each with 0000 steel wool in between each etch.
Now for the glamour shots:
Let me know what you think
randy
PS. I will probably make a leather sheath for it as well, maybe a bushcraft-style dangler sheath.
Mar-Hyde stripper and a bondo scraper from Advance Auto and the coating is history. This is the second application of stripper after 15 minutes and scraping what I could off. 30 minutes total time to strip it.
My knife sanding set-up: Here we are at 400 grit; I started at 220, then 400, then 800, 1500, and finally 3000 using WIndex for wet sanding.
Time for some new scales. Stabilized Walnut from Mark at Burl Source.I didnt have any suitable wood scales so this block will have to be split into scales. One plus to ding it this way is that I can drill the holes now and they will be aligned correctly. Blade is temporarily super-glued to the block to drill teh 1/8" holes.
Here the block is glued and clamped to a scrap board for ripping into scales. I like entering and leaving the shop with all 10 fingers and this set-up keeps your fingers safely away from the miter saw blade. The square shows that it is clamped at a true 90 degrees, very important since I already drilled the holes.
Scales are 95% and blade is wet-sanded to 3000 grit. I forgot to take a pic but I didn't want to use the stock nuts on the right side so I got some 8-32 furniture nuts at the hardware store and countersunk and epoxied them on the back side of the right scale.
into my etching tank which has Radio Shack Etching solution diluted to 4:1. I ended up doing 3 etchings at 5 minutes each with 0000 steel wool in between each etch.
Now for the glamour shots:
Let me know what you think
randy
PS. I will probably make a leather sheath for it as well, maybe a bushcraft-style dangler sheath.
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And it's not me, it's my 17 yr old son; Mr "I never put anything back where I got it" lol
