Project- Collab with Lorien! "Liquid Sonar" (Hand engraved/ano'd Ti)

[WValtakis]

Lorien hit me up to see if I wanted to make this awesome "Liquid Sonar" artwork he sketched for his Benchmade Pika II a reality, of course I said "YES!"

 

[Lorien]

oh yeah! Nice! I thought that knife might sit in a drawer for a couple years first

 

[WValtakis]

Got the design reduced to an outline and adjusted to fit the screw counterbores and handle contouring...time to shrink it back down and transfer it to the piece

 

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[Lorien]

looking good!!!

 

[Sharp & Fiery]

Excellent, Chip! Looking forward to seeing this progress.

Great choice of knife to engrave, Lorien I had my Pika II engraved a few years ago and couldn’t be happier. Nice artwork as well!

 

[Lorien]

Excellent, Chip! Looking forward to seeing this progress.

Great choice of knife to engrave, Lorien I had my Pika II engraved a few years ago and couldn’t be happier. Nice artwork as well!

thanks Coleman. The design harkens back to when I was in highschool- I used to design tattoos for my friends and stuff using a similar aesthetic.
I had two Pikas left over from my online knife store way back when, and I'd been meaning to give them to Chip for a couple of years since the handle scales seemed like a perfect canvas for his work.

 

[ferider]

Amazing, Chip. How do you do the transfer, if I may ask ?

 

[WValtakis]

Amazing, Chip. How do you do the transfer, if I may ask ?

Laser printer, lay the printout face down and hit the back with solvent and some of the toner transfers.

 

[WValtakis]

Pencil gray will be blasted, I think it's gonna be pretty sweet

 

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[Lorien]

diggin that siggy placement

 

[WValtakis]

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[WValtakis]

Alright! Time to mask everything off and blast the "background"