The “Can’t leave anything alone” Thread

I normally love TwoSun's titanium pry bars. This one was good as a pry bar but seems like it was supposed to be optimized as a bottle opener. Unfortunately, the grooves behind the lips on both sides of the bottle opener were just too shallow. I only have European beers on hand for testing but it just failed to bite.

Well, nothing a few minutes with a Dremel couldn't handle. I opened up the rear groove and now it's all good. It opened its first beer and I celebrated as follows. Now it's time to clean up my work with some 600-grit sand paper...

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Okay. I finally finished messing around with this Baklash and then spent the day carrying it. I had previously swapped scales to get the Burlap micarta with non-coated hardware, added Skiff bearings, and deleted the lock-bar jimping. That jimping had previously protruded way out past the edge of the scales like little teeth and caused a hot spot for me.

On my first pass a while back, I realized that it wasn't just jimping but an extended ridge and that the scales on that side actually bumped out for the contour. So this time, I tried to even out both the scale and the lock bar. It looks a little scratchy but is smooth to the touch. (Forgive the pocket lint.) I've got just enough room to easily access the lock bar. Overall, I'm calling it "acceptable". The important part is that is now comfortable in my hand. :)

Yeah, y'all get dinner as a background for the close-up. The sun has gone down and I'm hungry. 😜

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Re-anodized my Sebenza (previously bronze). I was gonna just go purple but once I had the setup going I figured why the hell not go bold. First I hit with 87v. Then I stonewashed it and also rouged up the edges a bit. After that, I threw a 12v bronze on there to highlight the raw Ti that was exposed (somehow even at that low voltage it threw a bit of purple in there as well). Then I gave it another quick stonewash.

Also, I have no idea how but there was some staining on the blade, so decided to attempt a satin finish on the flats to get rid of it. I did about as good as my limited skills allow given the fact that I had to work around the thumbstud. This has been a user so the the scratches already on the blade from use didn't help any.

I had a spare aftermarket clip laying around, so I polished the raised portion of that up and ano'd it as well. Still not sure if I'm going with it or stock yet. I think I like the stock clip a bit better, but it must ride slightly on the lockbar because I could swear the other one causes it to flick better. I keep going back and forth, but I'll probably end up tinkering with the original until I get it to my liking and going with it.

Anyhow, as always it didn't necessarily turn out how I had envisioned, but I'm happy with the results. It definitely fits me.

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Knives&Lint said:
Re-anodized my Sebenza (previously bronze). I was gonna just go purple but once I had the setup going I figured why the hell not go bold. First I hit with 87v. Then I stonewashed it and also rouged up the edges a bit. After that, I threw a 12v bronze on there to highlight the raw Ti that was exposed (somehow even at that low voltage it threw a bit of purple in there as well). Then I gave it another quick stonewash.

Also, I have no idea how but there was some staining on the blade, so decided to attempt a satin finish on the flats to get rid of it. I did about as good as my limited skills allow given the fact that I had to work around the thumbstud. This has been a user so the the scratches already on the blade from use didn't help any.

I had a spare aftermarket clip laying around, so I polished the raised portion of that up and ano'd it as well. Still not sure if I'm going with it or stock yet. I think I like the stock clip a bit better, but it must ride slightly on the lockbar because I could swear the other one causes it to flick better. I keep going back and forth, but I'll probably end up tinkering with the original until I get it to my liking and going with it.

Anyhow, as always it didn't necessarily turn out how I had envisioned, but I'm happy with the results. It definitely fits me.

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Looks great, your work is always a joy to see.
 
I'm a fan of Feed-N-Wax for cabinets and such. For an EDC item, I wanted to try their food-grade Wax-It-All. My Snap scales were showing their wear so this was my opportunity to try it.

As I said in the EDC thread, the mineral oil is just for wiping down steel as needed. My lubricant is in the dropper bottle. I've been using Lubriplate FMO-350-AW in guns and knives for years now. It's an H-1 non-toxic lubricant developed for kitchen machinery. They finally started selling it as their dedicated gun oil thanks to Grant Cunningham popularizing it about a decade ago.

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So I ended up doing a little sanding on the flats of the scales and then waxing them. I could have done a little more but I'm happy with the results.

While I usually forget to take "before" pictures, you can see some of the wear in this EDC pic from a few weeks ago.

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