Survival Knife - British Ministry of Defence specification - Review and makeover

[pitdog]

I quite like my version of the MOD 4 ~

 

[james terrio]

The steel and the HT seems to be the only thing that i right at this point. I will look in to this tomorrow.

If that's the case it may be a good project knife. pitdog's looks pretty cool.

 

[peppen108]

Yes, pitdogs just looks like a better knife. The older older the issue, the more user friendly they look.

 

[Will Batayte]

I guess survival means just that. They give you just enough to survive with lol. I wouldn't waste my money

 

[peppen108]

I wanted to give this knife a quick makeover. But as usual when the foundation is dodgey you have to dig deep. 6 hours of manual work deep.

I started of shaping the handle whit a file and 120-papper.

Baby steps. I did not want to loose the shape and streamline it so it will be hard to hold on to while chopping. And I did not want to put a finish on it, its suppose to be raw.

 

[peppen108]

Then i intended to give it a even bevel whit sandpaper.

But the hollow grind was so ify and the secondary edge so uneven that i decided to re do the hole thing.

The Öberg-cut bahco file really did a nice job.

The knife is reborn or born.

This is when i should have stopped. The rest is just me getting caught in a sharpening frenzy.

 

[peppen108]

The old wife had the car because I was not working so i had to settle whit what i had layning around. No finer paper than 120 in sheets.

So i went straight to polishing.

Water stones for the finishing touch 120, 340, 800, 8000. What i should have done to save me time was to go up to 800 whit paper, strop it and be done.

 

[peppen108]

Handle sanded up to 320 whit scrap papers and the linseed oiled. Blade stropped on a leather belt whit red rouge.

It might not look that different but it actually feels like a capable knife now.

Befor it had a folded an painted over edge tha did not cut. Now it slices whit the best of them.

 

[peppen108]

Testing sharpens by "shaving" before the final stropping an finishing of the blade.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9EEwYwwMz4

Cutting some paper after stropping.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSLOo6MeAzM

What do you think?

 

[kurodrago]

I really like the ergonomic of this knife, Nice work! What kind of carbon steel is made of?

 

[peppen108]

Feels like a 55 or less hrc spring steel.

Edit: 54 hrc British 1095 carbon steel with a % of nickel.

 

[kurodrago]

Feels like a 55 or less hrc spring steel.

Edit: 54 hrc British 1095 carbon steel with a % of nickel.

Thanks....and thanks for the review.

 

[peppen108]

Thanks! I´m really happy whit how it turned out both how it feels and looks. Its going to be exiting to see if it preforms next week.

 

[FortyTwoBlades]

MUCH better! :thumbup:

 

[james terrio]

Nice work. See, I told you all along it was a great knife :foot:

 

[Mossyhorn]

The handle is way too large and ill fitting. The blade is actually a very good design. I bought one and stripped the handles. It's a mod in progress so, I wrapped the handle with Mcnett Gear camo wrap until I install another handle.

 

[peppen108]

Mossyhorn, have you thought about not knock the guard of and minimize the ricasso before you finish it?

 

[Mossyhorn]

I will grind off the top guard but the ricasso looks good where it is to me.

 

[peppen108]

Field review

Its getting better

[video=youtube;DdYSFrgiU9s]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdYSFrgiU9s[/video]

 

[FortyTwoBlades]

MUCH better. Thanks for the update!