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The Official FrankenBecker Mod-Off (here we go)

I can't wait to see how this ends up, it was also on page 5 so a bump couldn't hurt. The progress so far has been amazing guys, great work.
 
subscribing for interest

i would like to see nice new handles on that bad boy
 
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Not much left. Brl is getting around to the handles, and then vik is doing a sheath.
 
maybe some blue handles with white spacers

I literally had a dream where I found a stripped bk7 with blue g10 scales I was so disappointed when I woke up
 
Hey everyone, so so sorry to have been such a slacker lameass on the FrankenBecker. It's the weekend soon and I swear to Saint Guinness that the FB will not be sitting on my bench still by Sunday. I've got all the materials and am really tired of being Captain Year Lateass, so it'll get done. I appreciate the patience; this is a cool project with great work done by everyone and it sucks that I'm holding it up.
 
Dude - I'm cool with the wait - life gets in the way at times.
I had a leather bag order in may that didn't get finished until the end of August due to the Joplin tornado & aftermath among other things.
besides -- the longer you take, the better I'll look if I can get my part done before president's day! ;)
I mean - the more time I have to try and think of a cool sheath design...
Sorry Dubs - if you're reading this, I'm not making an inverted back carry murder harness for it. (tempting, sounds cool, but... no...) :D
 
BRL told us in the chatroom that his idea he was shooting for failed miserably so he had to go a different route. Last I knew though it should be done. Maybe he will show up and clarify.
 
Hey guys, yep it's me Sir Failsalot. I've basically banned myself from faffing about on BFC until I finish the FB... hours lost idle surfing while this sits unfinished isn't cool. The good (?) news is that work is beating me down hard enough that there's not much energy for the 'net anyway these days heh. Hell, I haven't even bought a new knife in what, two weeks? Might be a new record.

Status on the FB is that the leather is cut, the cord is dyed, and I'm planning on gluing up the first layer tonight (doing my hawk taught me to do two layers with certain hemp/epoxy combos). Who knows, it might turn out well enough that a second layer wont be needed. Wife will be out of town, which always helps.

The fail part Derek mentioned was that what I was originally working on was to do hemp-wrapped scales. That way the final FB owner could pull them off if they weren't into wraps (definitely not for everyone) and the filework along the handle wouldn't be hidden. This idea turned out to be a major rabbit hole as far as time, and I just was getting nowhere with a way to deal with keeping the holes open in order to get at the hardware. I've still got some ideas but didn't want to hold the FB hostage anymore so I gave up and went back to a standard wrap. Kind of a bummer because the wrap is dyed black, and I had gotten two sets of black and white liners from Flexxx for this. the combo would have looked pretty sweet. Ah well, I'm not giving up on the idea so maybe someday.

Anyway, sorry for the delays.
 
Good to have you back at the round table sir failsalot. Wasn't the same without you :D its not a problem. Your doing something out of the box and that takes time, both in planning and in trial and error. We all got other things going on and we just got through the holidays so its not a problem.
 
hey man, quality takes time!
You do quality work and you take the appropriate amount of time for it.
Can't wait to see her finished!
 
Update: this is the first layer. Will do two or three more. Ignore the shininess of the epoxy under the wrap; covering up the initial glue layer is why I've taken to doing several layers. Ignore the little pigtail, too... that'll be gone.

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Update: Second wrap layer is drying. As flaky and unreliable as I am, even I think that this'll finally be in the mail by mid-week. Photos once it's done.
 
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