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WVHILLS

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Just got this FFBM Friday and wanted to try this ever since I saw Soup Mongers original thread on his FFBM. I used Kuttit paint stripper to take the coating off the spine. I masked off the spine and handles with tape and applied a small amount of the stripper with a small artist brush, it worked. Then polished it up with 220, 320, 400, 600 grit sand paper. It's not as good as Soup's but it'll do.

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Nice work:thumbup:

Some knives really look great with a satin spine...

Here's how I did it a few weeks ago:
scrape the coating off the spine with a sharp chisel, cleaning the INFI with a dremel and finish with sandpaper

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Nice job, Mr Hills.

Looks like there is a light bulb on inside it. :D

Did you round off the spine?... or is that a trick of the light?

Top photo Crafft. ;)
 
soup_monger said:
Nice job, Mr Hills.

Looks like there is a light bulb on inside it. :D

Did you round off the spine?... or is that a trick of the light?

Top photo Crafft. ;)
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Thanks. It's no trick, the spine was rounded off from the factory, I thought that is how all FFBMs were.
 
BTW please excuse the garbage laying about... A neighborhood dog has been visiting my girlfriends trash cans like its a all night buffet:thumbdn:
 
Oh Man Bro,

that looks good. I had to get another. I am going to strip it too.

that Rocks:D:thumbup:
 
Ohhhhhh yeah, something just downright sexy and cool about a polished spine!!!;)


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Nice work bro, you got her almost to a mirrior finish....did you do the underbelly too?

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Solstice said:
Ohhhhhh yeah, something just downright sexy and cool about a polished spine!!!;)


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Nice work bro, you got her almost to a mirrior finish....did you do the underbelly too?

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Haven't done the underbelly yet...want to though:thumbup:
 
I just got this one off the exchange and stripped it before realizing the spine was rounded and polished.

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Could this be the same knife or do you still have yours?

If it's the same one, you did a darned good job with the spine. I was coated on the front edge of the handle and talon hole so it might well be one and the same.

(I've been trying to figure out most of the day whether or not the rounded spine was "standard" as my other FFBM with regular slabs is nice and square.)

Thanks,

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I'd be curious to know the answer also! Either way, it looks great!
 
Brian_T said:
I just got this one off the exchange and stripped it before realizing the spine was rounded and polished.

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Could this be the same knife or do you still have yours?

If it's the same one, you did a darned good job with the spine. I was coated on the front edge of the handle and talon hole so it might well be one and the same.

(I've been trying to figure out most of the day whether or not the rounded spine was "standard" as my other FFBM with regular slabs is nice and square.)

Thanks,


B
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Not mine, that one went to PorcupineMtns66:thumbup:
 
:D

Wait... :eek:

Does anybody else have an FFBM with the rounded spine or have I started to mangle a rare variant of the model?

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I think sooner or later we will have the flow chart of past owners figured out!

There's another thread here with the same model blade and polished spine. I think there are a couple floating around.
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