My first custom

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Tyrrell12

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Hello everyone, im new to the forum but not to knives, ive recently started making my own, using a simple setup in my garage( a harbor freight belt sander and a firebrick forge) i completed my first one last week, it is 0-1 diff. Heat treated with micarta handle scales i also made myself, and yesterday i made a kydex sheath for it, let me know what you think.
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Looks very good!
I would have preferred it to be without the thumb ramp and perhaps a leather sheath instead of kydex.
Other than that it looks well thought out and a design that is no nonsense and useful.:thumbup:

Regards
Mikael
 
If you're gonna go custom/handmade, you could do a lot better than to copy (mod?) a knife that really doesn't perform very well at all.

It's a brick. Poorly balanced and quite heavy for its size. It's too short to really chop with authority, and too everything-else to do... well, anything else.

The bevels are far to low to provide real cutting performance unless the stock is quite thin. The remarkably fat handle is designed for exactly one grip, which doesn't lend itself well to chopping or slashing (unless your hands are both narrow and long)... and not at all to anything else.

It's certainly very tough.

Congrats! You copied (modded?) a marketing-driven nightmare.

Hey, you asked :D
 
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I never said that was a copy of a becker, maybe the thumb ramp makes it look like one but i just drew up a 7" long clip point blade with a simple handle design. I dont buy knives to modify them and claim i made them, like i said its 01 steel done in my garage. Get over it
 
Tyrrell12 said:
... let me know what you think
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You did ask for opinions, didn't you?

It looks like a BK7 to me as well. Even if you made this 100% by hand (which I'm not doubting), you have to admit that you borrowed from an existing design. No way somebody would suddenly make something that looks exactly like an existing product -even down to the use & placement of 3 handle pins.
 
Even if it's similar to the BK7, it looks like a decent first blade. I would recommend a full flat grind with a convexed edge versus the low bevel you have on there now.
 
I asked for opinions as in some constructive criticism from people more experienced in knifemaking, not for some asshole to tell me i modded a knife i bought. A thumbramp doesnt make it a becker. And i put three handle pins in it, who doesnt? To answer your question i didnt get the "idea" from a bk7, ive never even actually handled one, just seen em online.
 
Tyrrell12 said:
I asked for opinions as in some constructive criticism from people more experienced in knifemaking, not for some asshole to tell me i modded a knife i bought. A thumbramp doesnt make it a becker.
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Not many knifemakers hangout in the General forum. JT is a good knife maker, and gave you some sound advice. I would take it, and lay off on the name calling.
 
Well done!
I am not a maker, but It must be a real rush to post this, your first knife on the forums.
Very impressed.
Cheers
 
Sound advice? He told me i only modded a bk7 and then went on about how much they suck, and i dont care how good you are at making knives, if ur gonna be an asshole just go read another thread. Kinda immature, reminds me of when i was a kid at the skatepark n the kids that were better at skateboarding would talk shit. Grow up
 
@ Tyrrell12

You need to clean up the potty mouth language.
 
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