I did some stippling of various depths on the front half of the handle, nothing purdy but it feels nice:
Against my better judgement and advice on here I removed coating on a portion of the top for firesteel/flint striking. I'm not terribly worried about the aesthetics, but it simply won't throw sparks from my cheapy wal mart magnesium/ flint firestarter. Playing around with said firestarter, it seems much cheaper and more difficult than the ones they used to make. it only wants to spark with the little included hacksaw blade and even that wears it out at an absurd rate. So I've got a swedish firesteel on order. My real question is, should I buff out the filing on that top little section with a dremel and flitz, or grind some sort of notches into blade to facilitate better use of firesteel? Just not sure if texture, or smooth sharp edges throw the most sparks with the least amount of flint damage.
And here's where stuff got silly reallly fast.
the moment I unboxed the BK2 I knew EDC without a pack of some sort would be rather difficult. For the moment I ordered a tec loc, am working on leaving the knife jammed halfway out of the holster a lot to loosen it up a bit, and scraping the idea of becoming a bowie knife carrying psychopath. Only way I can imagine it not throwing out my lower back is some kinda shoulder holster, which I might try to figure out eventually, but I'm going to just play with the tec lock for a while and actually get used to using the knife for whacking on twigs and whatnot.
It'll be a work in progress. All in all I'm amazed at the beefy blade on this knife, and I'm sure I'll be forkin out money for micarta and leather when funds allow
Against my better judgement and advice on here I removed coating on a portion of the top for firesteel/flint striking. I'm not terribly worried about the aesthetics, but it simply won't throw sparks from my cheapy wal mart magnesium/ flint firestarter. Playing around with said firestarter, it seems much cheaper and more difficult than the ones they used to make. it only wants to spark with the little included hacksaw blade and even that wears it out at an absurd rate. So I've got a swedish firesteel on order. My real question is, should I buff out the filing on that top little section with a dremel and flitz, or grind some sort of notches into blade to facilitate better use of firesteel? Just not sure if texture, or smooth sharp edges throw the most sparks with the least amount of flint damage.
And here's where stuff got silly reallly fast.
the moment I unboxed the BK2 I knew EDC without a pack of some sort would be rather difficult. For the moment I ordered a tec loc, am working on leaving the knife jammed halfway out of the holster a lot to loosen it up a bit, and scraping the idea of becoming a bowie knife carrying psychopath. Only way I can imagine it not throwing out my lower back is some kinda shoulder holster, which I might try to figure out eventually, but I'm going to just play with the tec lock for a while and actually get used to using the knife for whacking on twigs and whatnot.
It'll be a work in progress. All in all I'm amazed at the beefy blade on this knife, and I'm sure I'll be forkin out money for micarta and leather when funds allow
