Pictures of my reworked Commander.

How many of you mod your own knives ?

  • Do it for fun.

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Cant afford a new knife so I mod.

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • feel it would ruin it's value.

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Never thought about it.

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Total voters
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  • Poll closed .
Man of Iron said:
Well done, just wondering how you managed to mod the Commander into Mrs Runeman... :p
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I could come up with many a robust size / prowess ie penilistic ego qoutes
which would be all totally true "ha-ha", But I guess I am just a very lucky and
well hung guy.
 
Very nice. I'd mod my knives, but I'm not talented enough. I have 2 mod'ed Emersons from ferrk/Phil, a Persian & a CQC-7B. My CQC-12 also had the edge re-profiled by Tom Krein & he is doing the same to my PUK. Most likely I will be getting my HD-t mod'ed also.

I don't worry about them losing their value, I'd rather be happy with a knife made to my needs.
 
Hey runeman, what did you use? I have some 600 sandpaper (smallest that I could find), do you think that would work on my commander? Probably not as shiny as yours, but just wondering if it would be OK to use. Great job by the way :thumbup:.
 
batosai117 said:
Hey runeman, what did you use? I have some 600 sandpaper (smallest that I could find), do you think that would work on my commander? Probably not as shiny as yours, but just wondering if it would be OK to use. Great job by the way :thumbup:.
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My Commander was used pretty hard. It was my EDC for years running EMS so she was beat to sh!t. But man she paid for herself 10 x over. When I retired her to a comfy space on my knife shelf all of the orginal black was worn, scared and her edge was rounded from quick sharpinings. She deserved better.
So heres what I did,
I took her all the way down and washed and dried all her parts. Then I took my dremel tool and some heavy scotchbrite wheels and removed all of the remaining black from the blade, pivot and scale screws. After that I matched the liners together in a vice and used a set of snap-on needle files to cut additional knurls to enhance grip on the underside and pommel area.
I also cleaned up and resharpend the existing jimbing with my spyderco ceramic files. For the pivot and scale screws I kept progressing to finer and finer scotchbrite wheels "till they was purdy". The "blade" was a challange
apparently that DLC type coating must need one hell of a surface profile for proper adhesion because once she was down to bare steel I looked at her with a loupe and could see that the surface was really pitted from a heavy sandblasting so I started with 220 emery cloth and went to 1500 emery. It took alot of this on each side to even her up as the sides were not nearly as flat as they appear, near the thumb disk. For the top and edge grind I used the progressive scotchbrite wheels inbetween sanding the sides to keep them satin. Then I dremel buff'd with lapping compound then hand rubbed her with a Mil-Spec scotchbrite polishing pad then a hard metal polish follow'd by a precious metal polish then fitz. Reworked the cutting edge with a progression of DMT diamond files till I got her as close to original as I could. Topped her off with a new Emerson s/s skull clip which was satin, so I buffed that to a shine and called her reborn. A little more than you asked but hope it helps.
 
man, that looks really good, you just need some new scales on there now ;) :thumbup:
 
Haze said:
man, that looks really good, you just need some new scales on there now ;) :thumbup:
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Thank's Haze,
Yea, I really want to do something original with the scales. Was thinking along the lines of a burgundy micarta and hammer marked bolsters or a color'd G 10 which would be a bit easier to accomplish.
What do you think ? Do you know of any extensively modded EKI's other than Ernie customs out there so I can get Ideas.
 
runeman said:
My Commander was used pretty hard. It was my EDC for years running EMS so she was beat to sh!t. But man she paid for herself 10 x over. When I retired her to a comfy space on my knife shelf all of the orginal black was worn, scared and her edge was rounded from quick sharpinings. She deserved better.
So heres what I did,
I took her all the way down and washed and dried all her parts. Then I took my dremel tool and some heavy scotchbrite wheels and removed all of the remaining black from the blade, pivot and scale screws. After that I matched the liners together in a vice and used a set of snap-on needle files to cut additional knurls to enhance grip on the underside and pommel area.
I also cleaned up and resharpend the existing jimbing with my spyderco ceramic files. For the pivot and scale screws I kept progressing to finer and finer scotchbrite wheels "till they was purdy". The "blade" was a challange
apparently that DLC type coating must need one hell of a surface profile for proper adhesion because once she was down to bare steel I looked at her with a loupe and could see that the surface was really pitted from a heavy sandblasting so I started with 220 emery cloth and went to 1500 emery. It took alot of this on each side to even her up as the sides were not nearly as flat as they appear, near the thumb disk. For the top and edge grind I used the progressive scotchbrite wheels inbetween sanding the sides to keep them satin. Then I dremel buff'd with lapping compound then hand rubbed her with a Mil-Spec scotchbrite polishing pad then a hard metal polish follow'd by a precious metal polish then fitz. Reworked the cutting edge with a progression of DMT diamond files till I got her as close to original as I could. Topped her off with a new Emerson s/s skull clip which was satin, so I buffed that to a shine and called her reborn. A little more than you asked but hope it helps.
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Thanks :thumbup::). I'm very grateful for the info and the step by step. I took off the "satin" finish last night and now it looks somewhat shiny. I'll charge up the dremel and pull out all the 220 that I can muster.
 
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