Pimped CRKT Ripple

TwistedMetal · Mar 2, 2014

Well, my 18th birthday was the weekend and I got a few new knives. One of them was the aluminum scaled ripple, and, having seen a youtube video where someone had done this, I decided to give it a shot.

I think it looks nice and fits the role of a gentlemans knife better now, I might go back and acid wash the blade, what do y'all think?

cityofthesouth · Mar 3, 2014

That is slick. I was tossing around something like this for mine. Is it blasted somehow to get the texture?

wwells20 · Mar 4, 2014

damn, that makes me want to run (not walk) out and get a Ripple. Nice job.

adnj · Mar 4, 2014

Very slick!

Acid wash doesn't look good to me on a gentleman's blade. How about a two-tone finish? Blast the flats and polish the grinds.

TwistedMetal · Mar 5, 2014

The scales are orange peel textured, I dont have a sandblasting cabinet yet. I've decided not to do anything else with the blade, originally the all silver look was bugging me, but it grew on me.

G. Scott H. · Mar 6, 2014

Looks awesome. I like the Ripple, but I've always thought the scales were unnecessarily busy (grooves and "waves"). This looks much cleaner. :thumbup:

TwistedMetal · Mar 8, 2014

G. Scott H. said:
Looks awesome. I like the Ripple, but I've always thought the scales were unnecessarily busy (grooves and "waves"). This looks much cleaner. :thumbup:

My thoughts exactly. If anyone finds the video of the guy who did this before, let me know, I'd like to credit him but I can't remember the name of the video.

fishface5 · Mar 8, 2014

oh man that is great! I never bought a Ripple due to hating the textured handle but didn't think of doing that.

TwistedMetal · Mar 9, 2014

fishface5 said:
oh man that is great! I never bought a Ripple due to hating the textured handle but didn't think of doing that.

This one is for sale in the exchange, just say'n.....

turtle13 · Mar 9, 2014

I did it to mine a while back, love it. It's that much slimmer in the pocket too.