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MsNaughtyIrish

MsNaughtyIrish

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I just have to say that I LOVE looking at the pictures of all the amazing things you guys can do. You can take something blank and make it a total work of art. LOVE IT! So that got me thinking...(could be a bad thing)

Have you ever messed up on your mod? What did you do? Were you able to fix it? Is it sitting in a drawer some where waiting to be rescued?

Everyone looks soooo professional. There has to be a time where you were *&@! this and &@*! that. Got any cool pictures?

I do believe in learning by your mistakes. So maybe seeing someone else's mistakes might be cool. Or at least a good laugh.
 
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The true "artist" can take a mistake, make something else out of it, and say with a straight face: "I meant to do that!" :D
 
Amen K-9. I've seen it! You start out thinking you're going to sharpen the swedge on a seven and end up with a bayonet or a 10 or maybe even a 14. And saying "That's exactly how I pictured it" with a straight face is as much a part of the art as anything else.:D:D
 
Haha this is exactly why I haven't touched my BK9 in terms of modding yet. I'm a coward! :p
 
Dust...I think that would be so hard. Taking that first step...saying, "ah screw it. let's see what happens." EEEK!
 
Stripping the coating is a good "first mod" since it's cheap, easy, and hard to mess up. Forcing a patina is also easy and it's not that difficult to remove it and start over.

Those are pretty tame on the scale of possible mods and don't really require any tools. That's really all I've done to any of my knives since I don't have a grinder and I'm pretty happy with how they come from Kabar.
 
A lot of etches I've done didn't turn out as planned. actually they never really do. I just have a vision and can manipulate it just enough to make the vision a reality. but I have many in the past that didn't turn out as planned. I usually just say isn't this awesome? And then it seems like I meant to do that ;)
 
Made lots of "mistakes" early on, but that's been a while and most of those have long since moved on or been thrown away. No evidence of them left :)
 
I think Gil Hibben makes mistakes and then just sells them as ''designs'' LOL


I didnt mess it up, but I sometimes regret taking the pommel off my BK9..I kinda miss it. I do NOT regret taking the 'ramp off....that is a necessary mod LOL


Like Clich said, with etching it's all a ''hope&guess'' and ya just have to be happy by how it comes out LOL
 
MsNaughtyIrish said:
Dust...I think that would be so hard. Taking that first step...saying, "ah screw it. let's see what happens." EEEK!
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After a lifetime of being an electronic/mechanical troubleshooter I've always said, "90% of fixing something is having the ba...(uh, GUTS, yeah, that's it. Guts) to take it apart in the first place" Modding is like that.
Success breeds confidence. Confidence breeds fearlessness.

Down right philosophical, I am... :rolleyes:
 
rkmoore said:
Amen K-9. I've seen it! You start out thinking you're going to sharpen the swedge on a seven and end up with a bayonet or a 10 or maybe even a 14. And saying "That's exactly how I pictured it" with a straight face is as much a part of the art as anything else.:D:D
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Negative, the Beckernet was 100% premeditated.
 
CCMI said:
Stripping the coating is a good "first mod" since it's cheap, easy, and hard to mess up. Forcing a patina is also easy and it's not that difficult to remove it and start over.

Those are pretty tame on the scale of possible mods and don't really require any tools. That's really all I've done to any of my knives since I don't have a grinder and I'm pretty happy with how they come from Kabar.
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Yeah I think I would be able to strip and patina pretty easily if I wanted, but what I would really want to do but am scared to take the first step into is sharpening my knives. I've read about it but I'm still pretty lost and I don't want to ruin my precious...
 
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Negative, the Beckernet was 100% premeditated.
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That's funny. I caught that to Murph. And he's right. The bayonet was 100% planned and a excellent idea of his I might add. As far as havin the guts to cut it apart its no so hard when its somebody elses stuff. Esspecially Murphs lol!
 
I haven't made a mistake yet on my mods, but the ones I did were very easy. I made a set of scales for my 11, modded a set of Izula micarta for my 14,and stripped my 7. It's really hard to screw those up.
Dust- get yourself a sharpener (whatever you like) and a few of the infamous $1 knives. File the serrations off and go to town on them with the stone. There's no way to master an art that you're afraid to practice.
 
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Tried to do a clich etch with the scratchboard technique. Failed miserably.

Had a few failed scales. Some of my early ones I stupidly had cut in the wrong direction with the grain facing the wrong way, so they broke very easily.

Also made a few blades that didn't turn out the way I wanted. Ruined 2 feet of 5160 once cause I failed at measuring. Mistakes happen.
 
stripping and patinas are like gateway mod drugs. Before you know it you have run to HF and got a sander. It's all downhill from there :D
 
TMHunt said:
That's funny. I caught that to Murph. And he's right. The bayonet was 100% planned and a excellent idea of his I might add. As far as havin the guts to cut it apart its no so hard when its somebody elses stuff. Esspecially Murphs lol!
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I'm just the opposite. I take chances with my stuff, but am ultra careful if it's somebody else's.

But at the track when someone would ask "What's the fastest car?", the reply would always be "A borrowed one!" :D
 
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