Hell All,
I'm a long time lurker whom finally joined the site. I have always appreciated knives and their use, being an outdoorsman and martial arts practitioner for many years (not so active in that recently due to life being busy). However, I never really got big into sharpening and modifying until I got a Becker BK2 Campanion. I flipping love this knife. Let me give you a picture run down of my BK2 and its mods:
First mod was stippling those slick grips (did not like how slippery they were):
Next mod was stripping that paint and doing a forced patina (I went for a heavy gun metal grey look after convexing the blade):
Last mod I did was to my sheath. I did not like how floppy the sheath was so I added a tek lok and made sure to camo paint it to match my hunting rifle:
I'll have to get some updated shots since I have used this knife very heavily and I have spent a considerable amount of time on getting the blade shaving sharp. I realize in use that I may have not needed to even do a forced patina. I use this thing so darn much that it is getting some very attractive patina from sap, etc. That's my intro. Thanks for all the info this site gives and I hope to contribute to it as much as possible.
I'm a long time lurker whom finally joined the site. I have always appreciated knives and their use, being an outdoorsman and martial arts practitioner for many years (not so active in that recently due to life being busy). However, I never really got big into sharpening and modifying until I got a Becker BK2 Campanion. I flipping love this knife. Let me give you a picture run down of my BK2 and its mods:
First mod was stippling those slick grips (did not like how slippery they were):
Next mod was stripping that paint and doing a forced patina (I went for a heavy gun metal grey look after convexing the blade):
Last mod I did was to my sheath. I did not like how floppy the sheath was so I added a tek lok and made sure to camo paint it to match my hunting rifle:
I'll have to get some updated shots since I have used this knife very heavily and I have spent a considerable amount of time on getting the blade shaving sharp. I realize in use that I may have not needed to even do a forced patina. I use this thing so darn much that it is getting some very attractive patina from sap, etc. That's my intro. Thanks for all the info this site gives and I hope to contribute to it as much as possible.
