Pimping a Reese pimped Emerson

[Charlie Mike]

This was a fun project. I did some maint on a Reese pimped CQC7b that I had given to our roommate as a Christmas gift. He's a manager at an auto parts store and gets lots of use out of the knife and it was starting to show. I was bored last night and couldn't sleep so I re-pimped the Emerson.

Before:

After:

Great way to get myself tired and good practice as well.

 

[elvis.alive]

Sweet! How'd you pull off the consistent gold color on the handle?

 

[Charlie Mike]

Consistent heat. See vid. Sound sucks.

[youtube]P8n-WOgO-6s[/youtube]

 

[Charlie Mike]

In between pics...

1000 grit silicon carbide followed by maroon color 3M pad (top). Bottom half is in "before" condition.

1000 grit silicon carbide followed by maroon color 3M pad...

Blade pivot gets polsihed...

After hitting the polish and strop on my grinder...

My grinder...