The “Can’t leave anything alone” Thread

I carried this Kershaw Clash today for "Throwback Thursday" and I'm feeling nostalgic.

This was one of my earliest modifications, inasmuch as a clip swap is a mod. Like a lot of its contemporaries from Kershaw, the stock clip on this one wasn't very good. So I tracked down another Kershaw with a compatible deep-carry clip and swapped it.

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Fixall said:
New pants for the V-Toku2 Dragonfly!

These are Flytanium titanium scales (and backspacer) anodized blue, with bronze undertones. :D

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Love it!

Is that the planetary dual-color? And if so neptune or europa?
 
353 said:
Love it!

Is that the planetary dual-color? And if so neptune or europa?
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This was actually an attempt at recreating their dual color finish, which wasn’t available at the time.

The scales were anodized at high voltage to turn them blue. Stonewashed to remove some of the anodizing. Re-anodized at low voltage so the parts removed by the stonewash would turn bronze (low voltage anodizing doesn’t affect the high voltage anodizing).

I hope that isn’t giving away a trade secret or something. 😂
 
Fixall said:
This was actually an attempt at recreating their dual color finish, which wasn’t available at the time.

The scales were anodized at high voltage to turn them blue. Stonewashed to remove some of the anodizing. Re-anodized at low voltage so the parts removed by the stonewash would turn bronze (low voltage anodizing doesn’t affect the high voltage anodizing).

I hope that isn’t giving away a trade secret or something. 😂
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More than an attempt, they turned out perfect!

Just installed some on my delica and I must say I had hell putting it together. Turns out the they have either milled out to much material in the scales or my delica liners was of(beeing too thin) or maybe a bit of both. Result was everything was rattling after assembly. The pins went all the way through so the screws didnt clamp the scales down like they should.

So to make it work I had to shim up between scales n liners; 4 layers of beer can alu, two on each side. Had to play a lot with it. Shims was needed on both sides of the pivot to make it playless. 4 shim layers was prob a tiny bit too much cause I had some trouble with the clipscrews. Luckily I found some on another delica that was a tiny bit longer and made it work.

All good n dandy now, no bladeplay execept from the normal tiny up/down play that spyderco back locks often have.

But it would have been a much better experience without the need of my hillbilly beercan mod..
 
So the Kizer Porcupine from their budget Laconic series is a neat knife. While I'm okay with the aesthetic flair on the blade, it felt a tad unnecessary on the handle. The ergonomics weren't bad but I knew they could be a lot better. So I took it down to something more neutral and approximated a melt finish around the edges. It feels amazing in my hand now.

This was my first time removing this much G10. I started with a dremel and then finished by hand. I'm not sure if it was just me or the translucency of the natural G10, but I ended up with a few little white inclusions. So I stopped before totally sanding out all the scratches as I worked up in grit. I've also never dyed "jade" G10 so I'm curious to see how it covers here. I'll probably include this in an upcoming run with Rit DyeMore Peacock Green.

I'll start with a stock image because as usual, I forgot to take a good "before" pic...

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Got a message from a buddy that he was sending a "mad tanto" to add studs and do a flipper delete. I'm not in the know and never heard of this one before. It wasn't until working on it to see mad tanto on the blade.

I thought he was just calling it a very cool tanto.....

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BartHarleyJarvis said:
Got a message from a buddy that he was sending a "mad tanto" to add studs and do a flipper delete. I'm not in the know and never heard of this one before. It wasn't until working on it to see mad tanto on the blade.

I thought he was just calling it a very cool tanto.....

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Nice job man! I've been meaning to add thumbstuds to a couple knives.
 
Years ago ( back in the 1980s!) I worked off-shore in the Middle East. At times we had little to do for days. while at other times we were so busy we couldn't clear bowels.

For those down times, most had some sort of project or busy work to fill their day. One such project was hammering a silver coin into a ring, one gentle tap at a time. Another ring project was to slowly grind at a stainless nut to make a signet ring. We had a month to do it in so bit by bit slowly was the ticket.

I didn't do that. What I did was to carefully disassemble my Buck 110. Finally got the stock Rosewood scales off. Then trimmed and filed pieces of broken tool handle, Hickory maybe, to fit the knife and glued them in with a two part industrial epoxy used on prominently installed tie-back casing.

The new wood scales were overly thick, on purpose, and I sanded their ends down flush with the brass bolsters, but left the middle portion proud. Then rounded it to make a palm-filling handful of knife.

Dunno here that knife went.
 
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