Pics of customized production knives

paulhilborn said:
Here's my modded ZT 0500. Stripped the finish of the handle slabs, wet sanded the thumb stud, pivot bolts and clip. Drilled the clip to sit lower down in the handle recess---makes the clip more stable and slowly, carefully ground a choil to allow for a choke up grip for finesse work :)
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Thanks for lookin:thumbup:

Paul
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Very impressive. What series of grit did you use for wet sanding? Were these done by hand sanding? I have been trying to start with some simple things for a couple of my own blades such as replacing the pivot screw and scale screws with bright stainless or even colored versions of these screws but have not found a vendor who carries such things.
 
Ebbtide said:
Hand sanding a blade it a lot of work but worth it.
Bruce's tutorials are a great resource.

There was a thread on Bagwell's mods for the w49, but I can't find it... my search-fu is weak.

Keep at it, that'll be a looker with some good work.
Just be careful cuz that sharp edge is always there to bite you.
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Do you have a link for the hand sanding tutorials?
 
Thank You, yes, I did these myself. The reason I use them is because I can buy them at Walmart for $28 and some change. That way I don't have much into them, I have only sold one and I give the rest to freinds and such.
 
paulhilborn said:
Here's my modded ZT 0500. Stripped the finish of the handle slabs, wet sanded the thumb stud, pivot bolts and clip. Drilled the clip to sit lower down in the handle recess---makes the clip more stable and slowly, carefully ground a choil to allow for a choke up grip for finesse work :)
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Paul
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Wow! Very nice! I've gotta get me one of those!
 
MTHall720 said:
Very impressive. What series of grit did you use for wet sanding? Were these done by hand sanding? I have been trying to start with some simple things for a couple of my own blades such as replacing the pivot screw and scale screws with bright stainless or even colored versions of these screws but have not found a vendor who carries such things.
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Thanks for the compliment---soaked handles in easy off oven cleaner:o The finish came off very easy, then use chrome polish to make them pop. Then I hand sanded using 600 grit wet/dry sandpaper on the pivot, thumbstud and clip then stepped up to 1000 then 1500 grit:D

Paul
 
Thanks very much for the info. Never would have thought of using the oven cleaner. For Chrome polish are we talking about Flitz or similar paste polish?
 
MTHall720 said:
Thanks very much for the info. Never would have thought of using the oven cleaner. For Chrome polish are we talking about Flitz or similar paste polish?
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Flitz or Simichrome work fine. If memory serves it was Simichrome:o

Paul
 
Awesome work buddy!!! I love it! I have 2 Ranger RD6's that are striped down and polished. I keep rem oil on them and they do fine. I really like this my friend!! Did you do a thread on this mod?
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BryFry said:
Just modded my ESEE Junglas. I etched the blade, stripped the coating, gave it some jimpping on the spine, rounded the spine, filework on the tang, ground out a choil, gunblue patina, gave the handle scales some shaping and texture, and dyed the scales. :)

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It's not much but I just finished this up.
My Becker/Esse Necker & sheath.
I stripped the blade, sanded all the tool marks out of it & blued it.
The sheath didn't come with any kind of belt loop so I made one out of 1/8" ABS plastic, Chicago screw posts, stainless screws and aluminum spacers.
I also added 2 eyelets to the sheath & adjusted the fit of the sheath so the knife doesn't rattle anymore.

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