Waving an Endura yourself

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Has anybody tried this? If so how did things turn out? And how did you do it? Did you use power tools only we're just good old fashioned elbow grease?

I am not a knifemaker, but I am patient and somewhat perfectionistic and am thinking about trying this myself. I have asked Emerson if they could do it and was told they have no capability. I have also asked at least one custom maker who was reluctant and refused because of licensing and patent issues. I'm not sure what other options I have at this point.
 
Are you talking about cutting out a section of the spyder hole? If that's the case, use a dremel and be careful not to heat up the blade (dunk it in water A LOT during the process). Probably will need to trace out or scribe the design on the blade before you cut though. At least that's what I would do. But honestly I have no desire to do such a thing to my spydies. But, hey, rock it if you got it!

Actually, I'm not sure that would work. You might have to remove more of the blade than would be advantageous. I don't have an Endura anymore so I can't give any worthwhile technical advice.
 
I have never altered the blade, but I have done the zip tie method and that works pretty good. Looks ugly as hell though. There was a guy a few months back who posted a pic of a molded plastic insert that went in the Spyderhole and had a "wave" on top. I don't know if anything came of it though.
 
Tdhurl1103 said:
Are you talking about cutting out a section of the spyder hole? If that's the case, use a dremel and be careful not to heat up the blade (dunk it in water A LOT during the process). Probably will need to trace out or scribe the design on the blade before you cut though. At least that's what I would do. But honestly I have no desire to do such a thing to my spydies. But, hey, rock it if you got it!

Actually, I'm not sure that would work. You might have to remove more of the blade than would be advantageous. I don't have an Endura anymore so I can't give any worthwhile technical advice.
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Well, yes, that would be the main idea, or at least remove metal in a way that it would look at first glance like a standard waved Spyderco. I don't have the right machinery to do it well, but if I could find someone in town with a water jet, that might work.

jstrange said:
I have never altered the blade, but I have done the zip tie method and that works pretty good. Looks ugly as hell though. There was a guy a few months back who posted a pic of a molded plastic insert that went in the Spyderhole and had a "wave" on top. I don't know if anything came of it though.
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Interesting concept. I will have to try to see what I can turn up on the Internet with this one.
 
Sorry for being off-topic but at first glance I thought the tag line said "Waving an Endura at yourself" and it gave me an amusing mental image.
 
Measure twice cut once.

If you mess up. A new knife you will buy.

Just sell trade yours for a wave endura.
 
they had the plastic wave hole inserts on amazon a while back.
you could also fabricate one yourself and not only would you have a unmolested endura, but a prototype for a product perhaps?
 
I was going to ask if you had tried the zip tie method, but I totally glossed over someone had already brought it up in this thread already.
 
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Did this Matriarch 2 a few years ago, just before the original waved versions came out.
For the main work i used a thin cut-off disc on a small angle grinder (with the blade clamped between wood in a vise and holding a wet sponge to the steel, so the disc cut both the steel and the sponge behind it)
Tidying up was done with a Dremel.

 
I put a small wave on my tenacious a while back. Just used a dremel very carefully. The version I did is less intrusive than the big waves you see on the enduras. The wave works really well, sorry I don't have a better picture of it, but you can see the cut out right above the spyderco logo.

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He's started back up again—though that may be only for knives he personally uses. Dunno fer sure.

ETA: Every time I read this thread title, I STILL read it as "Waving an Endura at yourself." Hilarious mental picture. Every. Single. Time.
 
Charlie Mike was the maker I approached because I saw that he had done that type of stuff before. He told me that he and Emerson agreed he would stop doing it. I think he is free to do it on his own knives, but getting paid to do it on someone else's apparently wasn't cool. I'd understand if Emerson was able to do it for me, but they said they cannot.
 
rjwiggall said:
I put a small wave on my tenacious a while back. Just used a dremel very carefully. The version I did is less intrusive than the big waves you see on the enduras. The wave works really well, sorry I don't have a better picture of it, but you can see the cut out right above the spyderco logo.

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I have never seen a wave like that before. I think it actually looks pretty awesome - as you say a lot less intrusive and probably less work intensive to get it that way. Do you have any regrets or wished you had done it differently? Works as well as the standard wave design, correct? Did you have to keep the blade cool as you were working on it?
 
on_the_edge said:
I have never seen a wave like that before. I think it actually looks pretty awesome - as you say a lot less intrusive and probably less work intensive to get it that way. Do you have any regrets or wished you had done it differently? Works as well as the standard wave design, correct? Did you have to keep the blade cool as you were working on it?
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The only regret I would say is that I wish I had acid washed the blade while I had it apart. The work looks really good and I did a stonewash on it (because I hate glossy smudgy fingerprint blades and I put a light scratch on the blade when I was dremeling it), but I should have acid washed it as well. Nowadays I don't carry it enough to warrant messing with it, so it sits just like it is.

I'm glad I waved it that way because it keeps the spyderco profile. The wave works really well because the blade naturally protrudes toward the pocket seam anyways. It waves out of your pocket even when you don't intend it to.

I didn't get the blade anywhere close to hot enough to have to use water. The dremel takes the steel away fairly easily when you use one of the tungsten carbide bits (it looks like a drill bit, but I can't remember the bit # right off hand). I just took it slow and easy with no issues.
 
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