Time (Zone) Travelling Micro Bowie

SG, you hoped and so the Good Doctor sez: the IBBB looks very well executed. Aesthetically, the layout is as perfect as one could expect under normal circumstances and much better than what most people would come up with. The broad diamonds provide a "custom" look that surpasses average checquering, don't you think? Over all, I view it as art for art's sake.
 
Thanks Bookie! That look is what I was hoping for, I really did not want the tiny diamonds that come to mind when checkering is mentioned, or the 1911 look, which according to my estimate, should have retired around 1976 and started collecting social security :b but I digress.

I have a feeling this pattern will also yield goldilocks-like grip, not too smooth like the original, and not cheese-grater like Bawanna's coworker prefers. I'll know soon enough!
 
Waow Bawanna you are dang good at this! :thumbup::thumbup:

SingleGrind - Congratulation on your IBBB pimpage.
 
A thoroughly professional job that younger folk just will not appreciate until they have some "expert" engraver or chequerer butcher a one of a kind....you just watched a working knife turn into a custom....
 
Thanks snow! And mtngunr, trust me when I say this knife will be anything but unappreciated. Many of my peers have a hard enough time understanding why I carry a knife at all, but for me it is an essential tool and in most cases a work of art as well. In my opinion, all HI knives are custom. This one was already a masterpiece when it left Bhaktas hands, now it is the most functional masterpiece in my collection, and somehow even more beautiful, thanks to Bawanna. I don't think I need a knife botched to see and appreciate the amount of time and skill it took to create this amazing work!
 
i pity y'all from massachoosets,bit like here in the UK. was doing some consultant work for a financial company, pulled out my crkt edgie (sub 3in. wharncliffe blade) to open a taped up box that one of the gals was having difficulty with. everyone oohed and ahhed and said how scary and why did i carry it. ''to open boxes like that, of course'' i answered.
 
The folks around here just don't get it. I still carry my Emerson CQC-7AW all the time, and usually open it with the wave feature. Zero effs given. By the time people realize what happened, it's been drawn, used, and is back in my pocket. Often have to take it back out to show people. And you can be darn sure the bowie doesn't show it's face in public, people would likely faint with one glance.

However, our gun laws are still slightly more lenient than across the pond, correct?
 
Knife laws can get you too....or especially the busybody with a phone who thinks they know the laws....whether at work or at play, all it takes today even in good ol'USA is concerned citizen rat fink with a phone....take this seriously....even behind scenes complaints to boss, whether everybody else has one or not....it starts with "he has a knife", and ends with management stating you bring knives and guns to work and even sell them there, both, on termination papers....this happens....
 
I appreciate the concern, however in my case I'm not worried. My boss is one of those who believes that our current president will, for some reason, decide he needs to declare martial law and take all of our guns and knives and all that jazz. Went on for a while about how he built his own "ghost AR" from an 80% billet and how everyone should do the same. I digress.

I take every opportunity I get to talk to local law enforcement, hear their opinions, and share my own. What I have learned is that, in this state, knife laws are almost entirely at the officer's discretion, and being able to easily and understandably state why you're carrying what you're carrying is usually enough to avoid trouble, in all but the most extreme cases.
 
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the media stirs things up here, my favourite remains the 'six inch samurai sword' attributed to someone caught carrying a knife. they tasered a blind deaf 90 yr. old guy who refused to 'put his sword down' and was walking away from the police. phoned in by a scared sheeple as waving a 'samurai sword'. turned out it was a white cane and he never heard the cops orders.he was lucky that they don't even trust 'normal' cops with guns here, or he'd likely been shot. if he'd been reported carrying a firearm, the swat teams would have shot him like the mentally challenged, what we used to call retarded, man who had walked to a DIY store to buy a replacement metal tube table leg for his kitchen table, he was walking home with it when a good citizen reported him as carrying a sawn off shotgun in a sack. the swat team did shoot him as he repeatedly refused to put the gun down. he of course didn't think they were referring to him.

of course the only people who wind up with weapons are the cops/army and the crooks.
 
Went into a local Wal Mart to get a belt phone case. Sales guy was opening it to see if it would fit. I thought he was gonna faint when I pulled out my bowie to cut the tape. But it passes quickly, he commented nice knife and that was the end of it.

Best yet was at the Reno Rodeo and they found a Leatherman in my little front bag. First time in 5 trips they ever even looked at me. Had the bowie on my hip as usual but they didn't see it or the 1911 on the right side neither. I still chuckle about it from time to time. I don't like going into fish shooting barrels myself.
 
Those are terrible stories, and unfortunately only a fraction of what I've heard from over there. Everyone seems to forget that criminals don't care what the gun/knife laws are, and will get what they want to get regardless. In my opinion, and undoubtedly others, the media is to blame. It's all scare tactics and we need to educate people about how wrong the media is. I have no issues having a conversation with someone who is scared by my knife, so that I may explain why I carry it and why everyone should. In this day and age, and part of the US, you have to be able to do that if you want to carry one and not get in trouble.

Bawanna, that's why I keep the Emerson in my pocket. Just a little less scary lookin than the bowie
 
As a full time sitter I don't do pockets. I used to carry a clip folders all the time but then I subscribed to the theory that a folding knife is a broken knife. I still slip on in once in awhile. I have an SOG Pentagon that for a folder is a sweet knife. I just hate to leave my bowie and stag behind. We're kind of attached.
 
Who said anything bout the bowie being left behind?? I have the bowie on my hip and the Emerson in my back pocket on most days. They make a great team. In the woods, the CQC-7AW gets swapped for a CQC-15, and when I'm going on the water, both get left on shore in place of my La Griffe neck knife. As you may notice, I am one of those who loves Emerson knives despite the fact that they are not the prettiest or smoothest out there. And the looks can be changed ;) They can baton wood like a fixed blade, with no blade play and a solid lockup, always. Bawanna, maybe I should send you the 15 once it's done with it's makeover? Should be done in a few weeks.
 
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And then there's that! I plumb didn't take that one into consideration.

Touche kamidog. That thing continues to absolutely amaze me.
 
Had to google CQC15. Nice looking knife, didn't even look like a folder. A might rich for my side of the tracks though.

What ya doing to makeover it? Looks pretty complete, least ways the one I saw on the googler machine.
 
I'm sending it to Josh over at Razor Edge Knives to have him do almost everything but the scales. He's regrinding the blade to a zero grind with a micro-bevel, doing a bi-tone acid etch and stonewash on the blade, and Cerekoting the liners, clip, and hardware in a dark OD green. It'll be a whole new beast. I'm also sending him my 7 to do a convex zero grind. He's on bladeforums, Google+, and he has a website. Does amazing work and has lots of pictures to show for it. Check him out, if for no other reason than eye-candy.

Edit: here's a link to his G+, lots of pics! http://plus.google.com/+RazorEdgeKnivesLLCGreenville
 
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