Pics of customized production knives

vice o33 said:
The knife is nothing special but the handle wood comes from the ship wreck of the MV Malabar what was built in 1925 in Scottland and then in 1931 sunk off the east coast of Australia. The ship was suspected of bringing opium in to Australia for the opium dens in China town Sydney. The handle wood was under water for around 80 years. I dove on the wreck a couple of years ago and salvaged one smallish piece of timber from a hull stay ,I dryed it out for a couple of years it was very brittle so I stabilized it with a couple of coats of resin .I couldn't think of a better thing to do with it than trying to make a knife with it.
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Awesome handles, even more awesome story.
 
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Cold Steel Recon 1 Tanto
My first customized knife. Quite alot of work in this one. All of it was the first time I'd done the work.
For the vine on the lock and back of the knife as well as the anso pattern I used a dremel. After the initial pattern I remove the dremel sand paper and wrap duct tape sticky side out around the sanding drum so that I can attach my own sand paper. Sanded both to 2k grit and buffed with mother's. And turtle wax on the scales. Polished the blade and all other metal components.
Doesn't seem like a lot of work written out like that but I bet it took 6 hours or so to polish the blade, around 7 to do the vine pattern, and 3 or 4 to do the scales. Maybe more, I never kept track. A few late nights into it though
 
Keyman said:
Thanks Braincandle.
I'm always snoopin' around seeing what everyones doin' or tryin'.
It's a great big bowl of creativity from all different perspectives, very cool.
My apologies about the axis hole.
It looked a little like it might be able to disingauge.
But, if it can't....well then excellent, your good to go.
The Rift is somewhat easy cause of it's full liners.
All that's really needed is a flat scale with a little room for the axis springs.
The next two knives you plan on doing, both have nested liners.
That's going to be a little more challenging. ;)
Good luck...be sure to post some pics!
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Well, I attempted a mini grip scale using toxic kirinite. Did not go well. Cut rough shape, drilled holes, mortised pockets. Started to sand on bench sander, snapped scale clean in half! Was pretty frustrating experience, I don't think I'm quite ready for the full or mini grip scales, working on a barrage/g10 instead, then an older Stryker/dewcarta...practice practice practice!
 
These look great! Out of curiosity....do you do your scales by hand or is the finishing on power tools? Also, what do you use to mill the nested liners? I've been using a dremel router bbt mounted on a drill press, but it doesn't work very well for much more than the axis or or screw ends.

Keyman said:
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I've used kirinite several times. Personally, I've found it to be one of the more difficult materials because it warps with heat really quick. Instead of shaping on a sander, I've found that thinning them prior to drilling and then using a dremel or other drum sander works best for final shaping. I hand sand for all of my finishing. If it warps, I stick it in the oven at 250 for a few minutes then stack weight on them to flatten them out again. Kirinite doesn't seem to work very well when it's extremely thin and I wonder about its strength in regards to the axis area. Let us know if you have good results with it in the future.

Braincandle said:
Well, I attempted a mini grip scale using toxic kirinite. Did not go well. Cut rough shape, drilled holes, mortised pockets. Started to sand on bench sander, snapped scale clean in half! Was pretty frustrating experience, I don't think I'm quite ready for the full or mini grip scales, working on a barrage/g10 instead, then an older Stryker/dewcarta...practice practice practice!
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Decided to start making custom scales just as a hobby, might start some selling them soon. All hand made, just need to prefect some things, let me know what you think,

Thanks,

Cramebame
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Cramebame said:
Decided to start making custom scales just as a hobby, might start some selling them soon. All hand made, just need to prefect some things, let me know what you think,

Thanks,

Cramebame
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Looks like a nice start. If you really want to sell, you need to take better pictures. Can't see any details. Oh, and you'll have to upgrade your membership to 'knifemaker/service provider'.
Welcome to the forums!
 
OldKnife007 said:
A hobby of mine: turning old M7 & M5 bayonets, jet pilots knives and USMC fighting utilities into something a little more interesting. I mostly sell them on ebay or at local knife and gun shows. Note the colored spacers on one of the 1917 Knuck Knives: the colors of the VietNam service medal.

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Sooo cool!

Im doing an old m7 atm, did you weld more tan g to yours for the pommel? Cuz my tang is only a few inches long..
 
draggat said:
These look great! Out of curiosity....do you do your scales by hand or is the finishing on power tools? Also, what do you use to mill the nested liners? I've been using a dremel router bbt mounted on a drill press, but it doesn't work very well for much more than the axis or or screw ends.
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Thanks draggat.
I finish these with power tools & by hand...bench sander, sanding drums in my drill press and hand finish sanding.
I use a dremel mounted in a dremel drill press attachment.
However, I use the dremel for nesting the liners and creating the omega spring cavities only.
I drill all the holes (pivot, screw and axis holes) with the drill press.
 
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