NO-E Make-Over

Tyrkon Lawson

Tyrkon Lawson

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Well seeing how there are threads popping up on nekkid blades, and because my NO-E was starting to look a little fugly, I decided to do a little make-over on her. She is a designated user but is not finished yet. I just stripped her and used a scotch brite wheel on her for phase one. More to come. But here is what I have so far.

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NO-E with a little coating wear. Especially at tip from throwing her.

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After stripping her coating using your average store bought chemical stripper.

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Now these two show the grind marks on the spine. They are on the entire perimeter of the knife's spine. I REALLY like this look. I was going to polish the spine but I am going to try this out for a while first. It has that rough, primitive look. I really like it. I don't know why but I just do. If I keep it this way I will just hand rub the flats of the blade to give it a nice satin finish.

Well that's it for now. Time to sleep. :)
 
Tyrkon - great start my friend, and its lovely to see this type of ambition. I have high hopes that you will do a great job... you know what??

I'm gonna start on my FBM now!!! I will start by hunting down some chemical stripper!


Top stuff :thumbup:
 
Tyrkon - what did you use to remove the paint after it had stripper applied and left to do its business??

I've just coated my FBM in ADVANCED PAINT STRIPPING GEL!!!!!!


PS - surely you are gonna put a Satin finish on that?? :D
 
Seems to be a bit of this goin on lately which has got me keen to strip my Dumpster Mutt .

Nice one Tyrkon keep us posted bro .

You also Hawkins post some pics of your progress .
 
Nice one guys!! I hope Tyrkon's goes to plan... and I'm gonna make sure mine does to....

I'll just say that my FBM is currently on its 2nd coat of stripper... but I'll start my own thread when its stripped... I don't wanna take away from TK's lovely job! :thumbup:
 
Hey guys,

This baby will be getting a satin finish. I prefer satin to mirror on my users. I used a gel stripper, let is do its business for about 15 minutes and then scrapped it off with a plastic putty knife. The gel I was using wasn't the strongest but it's what I had lying around. I had to go for two coatings. On the 2nd coating I used a wire brush to scrub of the rest of the coating. This worked really well on the INFI dimples.

I have a lot od Mother's Day stuff to do this weekend but will squeeze in work on it as I can. The INFI was pretty clean and smooth under the coating so the rest is cake.

Pics to come but here is one with the stripper I used.

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Good luck to everyone doing some work on their blades. And remember to give us some pics.

Thanks guys. :)
 
I had a little more time to hit the NO-E with the Scotch-brite attachment tonight.

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I am not sure how much more work I want to do as this is a hard user and will only be scuffed up again.
 
A few minutes back on the Edge Pro and this baby is scary sharp and ready for danger. ;)

Note: While using the scotch-brite wheel attachment for the hand drill I noticed that it dulled the edge of the knife. Also, after using it on the spine the blocky handles smoothed out and are more like the newer radiused ones. Very comfortable.

I am very pleased with how this NO-E turned out. Time to put it back in action.

So how is everyone elses projects going? I suspect slowly until Mother's Day is over. Have a good one and remember to post pics when you can. :)
 
Tyrkon, thanks for showing how you did this. It looks great! I think I'm gonna try out stripping:eek:
 
Thanks. Some guys go for a mirror polish and others a satin. It's a personal thing I guess. I like satin myself and don't feel as bad when I scuff the blades all up. I will post more pics as soon as I do more work on the finish. But I still really like those grind marks on the spine. They are evenly spaced and consistent from tip, all the way down the spine, around the skull krusher, along the bottom of handle, and finally the choil and stops where the cutting edge begins. I think I have a grind fetish. ;)
 
Well I think my baby is finished. This is as far as I want to take her finish as she will be back to hard labor soon. ;)

This first series of pictures shows an idea I had for sanding the blade to get rid of pits, scratches, etc... and achieve the desired finish. Here is what I did:

(1) I cut in half an 80 grit belt that goes on a sander so that it was one long strip/belt.
(2) I took a USPS box and cut a matching strip of cardboard.
(3) I used washers and screws to attach the card board with sanding belt on top, to my bench. The card board gives it a little cusion but not too much.
(4) Now the idea here is to place the blade perpendicular to the sand paper and, while keeping the blade completely flat, drag the knife along the sanding belt. You can use both hands of course. I used one to press on the middle of the knife to add desired pressure while the other hand pulled it along. Start at one end, pull it slowly to the other side and lift the knife straight up off the sanding belt as opposed to rolling it at the end. Rolling it will dull the blade. Now Repeat...
(5) You can gradually go up in grits until desired finish has been reached. I started with 80 as I had some grind marks and such that I wanted to smooth out.
(6) For the final touch I used a scotch-brite attachment on my drill to go over the blade from handle to tip.

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Note: I really like this method as it allowed me to add lots of pressure on the knife which resulted in much more work being done. With out all the heat of a real belt sander. I would say it only took me 30 minutes for this process. Faster next time? :)
 
And the final product:

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Note: I still dig those grind marks on the spine. Easy to remove but I think I'll keep them for now. ;)
 
Tyrkon - swweeeet!!!!

Lovely job.. it was you doing this that gave me the get up and go for my FBM, thanks for the inspiration!

How long did the whole thing take??

:D
 
The sanding took about 30 minutes tonight. Lots of sweat but the belts from the sander work fast. Especially with lots of pressure. It's hard to see but there were a lot of small dimples and marks on post 10. The belts smoothed them right out. Then the scotch-brite is just a few minutes for touch-up. The scotch brite is all I will probably ever need in the future to clean her up from time to time.
 
hawkinsa21 said:
Tyrkon - swweeeet!!!!

Lovely job.. it was you doing this that gave me the get up and go for my FBM, thanks for the inspiration!

:D
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Thanks bro. I got my inspiration from another HOG, Galaxytech and some others some time ago. And you have inspired many, including me, to do their big blades. My Dog Father is next as its coating is shredded.

Thanks angain bro and keep the pics comming. :thumbup::D:thumbup:
 
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