Ooops...What Happened?

[Skystorm]

Other than mutilating a limited bk4 or two with pathetic file work not really. I really need to order another one of those now that I think about it.

 

[K9-Handler]

"He can be fixed. We HAVE the technology."
------ Six Million Dollar Man

 

[TMHunt]

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!"

Let me rephrase that so I'm not misunderstood. I am a knifemaker. All of my stuff is other poeples stuff and I take that very seriously. I just do becker mods for fun and for murph who is my friend, and now that he is apprinticing at my shop, I am training him with becker mods and some small custom jobs. all of my coustomers work is treated seriously. However knifmaking is a bit of a gamble. I've been doing it for 15 years and still make rookie mistakes. If it was easy everyone would do it. And if we didn't make mistakes we would never get better! These thing keep knifemaking interesting to me. I am not perfect. And have yet to meet someone that is.

 

[MsNaughtyIrish]

To the ones that take I guess Mod orders....Is there anything that you just won't do to a knife?

 

[clich]

To the ones that take I guess Mod orders....Is there anything that you just won't do to a knife?

Call it in the morning

 

[MsNaughtyIrish]

clitch.....sooooo wrong.

 

[clich]

clitch.....sooooo wrong.

Its true. I fondle em, strip em, make em feel pretty, then have my way with them, but come morning I'm usually onto the next new fresh one

 

[MsNaughtyIrish]

clitch....Oh my... I wanna come back in the next life as a knife

 

[Wolf_1989]

I bought a BK9HH with the intent of modding the handle. The idea was a coffin-handle bowie.

Upon taking the scales off, that's when I discovered Becker knives have skeletonized tangs, which is the only thing I don't like about them.

 

[MsNaughtyIrish]

wolf....coffin handle? Sounds bad @ss. What is it?

 

[Murphnuge]

Its true. I fondle em, strip em, make em feel pretty, then have my way with them, but come morning I'm usually onto the next new fresh one

You're forgetting about how you photograph them for your blade spank bank.

 

[thrillbilly]

wolf....coffin handle? Sounds bad @ss. What is it?

like that, notice how the handle shape looks like a old-style wood coffin?

 

[MsNaughtyIrish]

Oh wow. That's really freaking cool. Thanks Thrill.

 

[Murphnuge]

I tried dyeing my micarta awhile back. It was supposed to have been OD, but that changed somewhere in the process.

http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php/876655-Murph-s-micarta-dyed

 

[LG&M]

Show me someone who has never made a mistake and I will show you someone who has never done anything. ( I made a typo but I fixed it)

 

[marantz]

No, they're not mistakes, they're Prototypes. Yeah, that's it.

Old saying: Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.

I think we're DESIGNED to learn by mistakes. Hopefully, we also learn from others mistakes. I still remember advice I got from someone a long time ago, who said his goal each day was to make new mistake, and learn from it. But he never made the same mistake twice. And he learned an awful lot by trying something new each day. Pretty good philosophy, that.

 

[Sam Hell]

Practice first with a Gil Hibbin knife so you don't have to worry about ruining something more valuable...heh heh heh.

 

[Wolf_1989]

wolf....coffin handle? Sounds bad @ss. What is it?

Yeah what Thrillbilly posted is a great example. When I saw the skeletonized tang of that BK9HH, it completely demotivated me from any mods.

Nobody, and I mean nobody makes (production, not custom) any worthwhile traditional Bowies anymore. I thought this was my chance to mod one of my own. WRONG.

The market is completely flooded with either modern knives - like Beckers, Busses, etc... and I'm fine with that... or silly mall ninja "tactical" garbage. We traditionalists are almost wholly ignored. Sure I could buy a custom piece, but I simply don't have that kind of money.

 

[thrillbilly]

Yeah what Thrillbilly posted is a great example. When I saw the skeletonized tang of that BK9HH, it completely demotivated me from any mods.

Nobody, and I mean nobody makes (production, not custom) any worthwhile traditional Bowies anymore. I thought this was my chance to mod one of my own. WRONG.

The market is completely flooded with either modern knives - like Beckers, Busses, etc... and I'm fine with that... or silly mall ninja "tactical" garbage. We traditionalists are almost wholly ignored. Sure I could buy a custom piece, but I simply don't have that kind of money.

I sent ya a message Wolf

 

[CamH_16]

I dont take mod orders as of yet (Because no one would pay for my stuff) but I'd never customize (customize= make it your own...Mod = modifications, improve the design) any LE, custom or expensive blades, just cant bring myself to do it.

Mod fails? Nothing major...Biggest one is probably cracking a scale on my BK-16.


001 by CamH_16, on Flickr

Not to hard to patch up though.

001 (2) by CamH_16, on Flickr

I dont consider this a fail but I think I might have over customized this BK2 to the point where its a completly new knife? Ignore the scratch marks on the blade.

017 by CamH_16, on Flickr

Other than that I do get some little scractes or nicks on things which bugs me but not enough for me to thow the knife away.


033 by CamH_16, on Flickr


054 by CamH_16, on Flickr