Pimped my Tom Brown Tracker

Gravitas · Nov 18, 2010

My favorite knife I currently own is the Dave Beck WSK. That said, I squirm at even the thought of using mine. I wanted to make my TBJ tracker "ressemble" the appearance of the Beck so I stripped the coat, tried to sand the steel to get that smokey grey finish Mr. Beck has mastered, darkened up the micarta handles, and made a sheath for scout carry. What do you guys think?

CWL · Nov 18, 2010

Beautiful sheath. I hope you get to go out an dirty it up some.

Jaiofspam · Nov 18, 2010

very nice! what did you use to strop the super thick tops coating?

Gravitas · Nov 18, 2010

Thanks, I used Klean-Strip and a scraper (Thanks to the threads here that showed me how). After the coating came off their appeared to be some type of powder coat baked on the surface that didn't budge from the stripper so I sanded it down with 320/600/1500 wet/dry sandpaper.

ISP 5353 · Nov 18, 2010

It looks great!

link2derek · Nov 18, 2010

Yep -- nice job, sir!

llcarter · Jan 26, 2011

Very nice! How did you darken the micarta handles?

trix2004 · Jan 26, 2011

Looks Good !!!:thumbup:

glocktenman · Jan 27, 2011

It looks great. The sheath is very nice.

I think the process should be called subduing not pimping; I was expecting a bedazzler to be used!

RevDevil · Jan 27, 2011

I would bet that it would cut and chop better now. Great job, looks clean.

Gravitas · Feb 18, 2011

llcarter said:
Very nice! How did you darken the micarta handles?

Sorry, lost track of this thread. I rubbed in some boiled linseed oil, that coupled with dirt from use