Ridiculous budget blade-4 dollar Ozark Trails folders, good blade-pic heavy

Riley- If I pimp my Wally tanto, it will not be a $3.87 knife then. ya dig?
 
Thanks, tho, Riley.
Let's see if Orange is offered. If not, I got your contact.
rolf
 
These normally aren't sold in the knife or outdoors section. They are in a isle display well at least at our Walmart they are.

At my location they are. There's a big aisle display that's right in front of the knife case that has TONS of them, there's a spinner rack on the knife display counter(which has a diff selection than the aisle display), then there was a hanger display on an end cap a couple aisles down from the knife case, I wanna say the aisle with the bicycles or basketballs or something.
 
Picked one up, slight vertical play, solid sideways. Vertical play puts pressure on lockbar causing it to move to unlock. Lock will fail after 4-5 hard hits.
I am not planning on using this for anything other than I would use a rough rider slip joint, so I am not overly worried.

This being the case, I took it to my belt sander for some modding.

Long clip with swedge, rounded the top most jimping, eased the corners and peaks of the jimping as well. The bump in front of the thumb stud is just the lighting, it is just from me softening the 90° angle that was created through material removal.
 
Picked one up, slight vertical play, solid sideways. Vertical play puts pressure on lockbar causing it to move to unlock. Lock will fail after 4-5 hard hits.
I am not planning on using this for anything other than I would use a rough rider slip joint, so I am not overly worried.

This being the case, I took it to my belt sander for some modding.

Long clip with swedge, rounded the top most jimping, eased the corners and peaks of the jimping as well. The bump in front of the thumb stud is just the lighting, it is just from me softening the 90° angle that was created through material removal.
This is why these are a great buy, you can take a new knife and grind away with out worry or concern about ruining it. Cause even if you do your out $4.
 
To be honest, I also ground away on my ZT 770cfM4, and I am in the process of polishing some parts on my CRK large 21. So in comparison, pulling a chunk out of a $4 blade isn't much of a worry for me.
:D

Next up the flipper tab is coming off.
I am not sure if I want to make a new blade out of 1084 and HT it myself to get a decent blade into this. I have the spare steel...
But, I do know where you are coming from. If anyone wants to try their hand at modding a knife, better an inexpensive one with no worries about dinging it up...
 
This is why these are a great buy, you can take a new knife and grind away with out worry or concern about ruining it. Cause even if you do your out $4.
Would work hardening because of excess grinding heat actually ruin or improve it?
 
I'm gonna reshape the blade, remove the flipper tab, and round the butt a little bit.
 
Everyone has a type, some just get to make theirs a reality! Lol
 
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