My new look FBM

mainaman

mainaman

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CBT CGFBM was one of my Busse grail knives, so after some hunting I scored this one.



Black coating, in early stages of chipping off the blade. The original design green micarta handles were too thin for comfortable grip. In other words the knife needed to be modified.
I removed the handles, stripped the coating with Citristrip and sent the knife to Garth to put new magnum scales.
Last step after I got the knife last week was to polish the bevels a little. Did a progression of sandpapers, 600, 1000, 2000, then polished with white rouge with my Dremel, and finished with Mothers Aluminum & Mag. I tried to achieve some mirroring on the flats and the ridges of the CBT, while leaving the groves untouched for a bit of contrast, and also preserving the INFI dimples as much as possible.

Here is the result.





Last thing on the list is to make a leather sheath for it.
Thanks for looking
 
Fantastic job and good thinking having Garth do the handles, those magnum scales really set off.
Just the right amount of aggression while still keeping the graceful essence.
Is that word even applicable to a Bussekin?
All in all it makes me really want a BM of any type!
Just when I thought I was done with fixed blades for a while.
But with the sticker price of an as new Battle Mistress now I'm better off finding a second hand user with most of the costing to strip myself.

I'm sure I'll hsppen across one someday and I'll look to you as inspiration CBT or not.

I've done a couple SR101 blades but those INFI dimples make me drool.
 
That's a great looking blade. What color are the scales? They look to be - on my monitor at least - to be a green micarta, but I have seen photos of black canvas micarta that had a greenish look to it. I have an older ASH-1 that has the flat canvas micarta scales that I'm thinking of sending to Garth for new magnum scales. If I'm being either rude or gauche, please forgive me, but can you tell me how long it took and how much it cost? Thanks much.
 
saniterra said:
That's a great looking blade. What color are the scales? They look to be - on my monitor at least - to be a green micarta, but I have seen photos of black canvas micarta that had a greenish look to it. I have an older ASH-1 that has the flat canvas micarta scales that I'm thinking of sending to Garth for new magnum scales. If I'm being either rude or gauche, please forgive me, but can you tell me how long it took and how much it cost? Thanks much.
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The scales are black canvas micarta.
 
That looks TREMENDOUS...:thumbup:

Don't you find doing such custom work on your own makes a great blade even more special to you? :)
 
PeteyTwoPointOne said:
That looks TREMENDOUS...:thumbup:

Don't you find doing such custom work on your own makes a great blade even more special to you? :)
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I do. When I can make the knife look exactly as I want it to with my own hands it makes it that much more special.
 
Very nice, I like the way it turned out !

Thanks for the pictures and congratulations on your own custom!

best

mqqn
 
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