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Mike McCarter

Mike McCarter

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I lurked for a while, signed up, then lurked some more. Thought I'd finally say hello. I'm a knife enthusiast and part-time maker from Knoxville, Tennessee. I most often use knives backpacking, camping and fishing.

My favorite BK is the Sweet 16. Most comfortable/natural feel in my hand of any knife I've owned.
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Yep, this one is brand new. I recently put the old one in a box with some Kydex supplies I received in the mail. My wife accidentally threw away the box, the supplies, and the BK-16. Got this new replacement and added the neon green G-10 liners to the brown scales. Can't wait to break it in.

I'm looking forward to attending my first Gathering next month and hope to meet some of you there.

Mike
 
Welcome man, glad to have you here. Congrats on the new steel. Nice photos too. :thumbsup:
 
Welcome to the forums Mike ... always hate to lose old faithful but nice to get a new one and make it your own!
 
Welcome, welcome.l.... I know this guy and he is more than OK...... Mike is the guy who made a really nice rendition of the Kephart and I saw another he just finished...... He is a user and this and his other blades reflect that...... Knows how to finish....... Y'all gonna like him......

Good to see you here....

E
 
Ethan Becker said:
Welcome, welcome.l.... I know this guy and he is more than OK...... Mike is the guy who made a really nice rendition of the Kephart and I saw another he just finished...... He is a user and this and his other blades reflect that...... Knows how to finish....... Y'all gonna like him......

Good to see you here....

E
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Ah, so this is the Mike I heard about...
 
Welcome Mike
to the mayhem
16 a great blade to start off wid
Send u da worst Becker when u ready all others work Great, enjoy da best Bunch of guys and gals
pull up a chair just as always, be careful who sits next to u
 
Welcome Mike. Glad you're posting. Looking forward to hearing more from you.
 
Welcome aboard Mike. Ya got one hell of an endorsement from the Boss. Pull up a keyboard and a screen and bring your best Melee Becker:D
 
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Welcome Mike!
Thanks for the intro and the pics.
Now that you're here, feel free to jump in to all that's going on around here! It's a good group and it's great to have a new guy around the campfire.
 
Welcome to the asylum! Love the knife and the pics!
 
Welcome mike! We'd love to see that kephart over at the beckerhead knife making and modifications!

Get started on that bh# tho

Welcome man hope to see you stick around for a bit!!!!

James W.
 
Oh it won't take much convincing for me to post about the Kephart. Someone might have to pump the brakes and tell me to shut up about it.

Like many Kephart fans, I read blogs and watched videos from Blade 2017 regarding Mr. Becker's newly acquired Colclesser Kephart. I didn't think at the time I would ever have it in my hands but E had it at a gun show a few weeks after Blade. It was awesome to be able to handle that knife and hear E's thoughts on it. With no ruler, I snapped a couple pics and used an 8 1/2 x 11 sheet of paper for scale. We measured the thickness of the handle with a stack of quarters. High tech!

I'm a stock removal guy but I hammered on some 5160 and tried my first convex grind in my first attempt at the Colclesser. Walnut scales with stainless steel pins.

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It looks ok and balances well but I missed several things with #1. Met with E and took some side-by-side pics, traced each knife, and took some better measurements.

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I missed the dimensions a bit - made the handle too long and the blade too short. I also missed the handle contour and some of the subtleties. I also left the convex grind too thick which was bad for cutting performance.

For the next attempt(s), I cut 4 blanks out of an old sawmill blade. I corrected the scale and thought I could use the next four blanks to practice the convex grinding. Knife #2 is a little closer to the original but still not quite there. The convex grind is thinner so it cuts a lot better than #1.

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Side-by-side ... #2 on the left
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I've started on Knife #3. I hope to have #3 finished before the Gathering but I'll at least bring #1 and #2.
 
Curious. Did you post a Kephart build thread on another forum? The first one you did?
 
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