What are you working on?

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Hey guys, i am just curious as i am working on some projects, what you guys are working on now in terms of knife pimping?

a sample of what i am working on: adding a mirrior polish to my cyclone and JYD2.

i just got done polishing the washers for my cyclone. talk about improvement! but then again i have beat the heck out of it so i guess i was asking it to be a mess inside :p

planning on buying a cloth wheel for my table top grinder and then just loading it up with polishing compound. gonna be interesting to see what happens when i eventually take the knife to it. if it works out well, i may be crazy enough to try it on some other knives.

just for the record, my cyclone and JYD2 are my beaters. i dont abuse, but i do use them for the really really crappy tasks that i wouldnt want my SG2 or Lahar doing. so they are also there for the pimping. i mess up, so long as the knife still works, then i really dont care on these two. you would all hear my scream if i did something like that to the Lahar or SG2.

so what do you guys have in the works? can be scales, new finish, painting *mike lol*, w/e.
 
I just vinegar etched another D2 CB, my EDC Leek this time. Looks pretty hot, came out darker than my JYD.

Just got my new scanner so there will be a ton of pics soon.
 
I had a dam leek come of the last run that had some spot rust on the handle.
I tried a little polishing compound on it and... oops it is a little too shiny in that one spot now. I took some jewelers rouge on a polishing wheel and the handle has a mirror finish to it now.
This was all Mikes idea.
As I couldn't sell it any more I gave it to him. I think he might have posted some pics of it a while back.
 
Last night I made 2 frankenshallots out of a CB ZDP and an all black one. Turned out really nice! Lock interface is perfect! Tonight, this one meets the coarse stones for a re-bevel...

Here's some quick shots...I didn't bother to clean it up and make it pretty for the camera!


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2bkc said:
I had a dam leek come of the last run that had some spot rust on the handle.
I tried a little polishing compound on it and... oops it is a little too shiny in that one spot now. I took some jewelers rouge on a polishing wheel and the handle has a mirror finish to it now.
This was all Mikes idea.
As I couldn't sell it any more I gave it to him. I think he might have posted some pics of it a while back.
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Welcome.....Mike's brother.......I assume :thumbup:
 
I have some cocobolo RAM scales in the works for a friend. I still need to finish the other scale on my Bump, too.

Most of my "knife pimping" effort is going into a new fixed blade for myself. A 4.5" blade of CPM D2 with a cocuswood (or maybe blackwood) handle.

I'm interested in seeing what I can do with the CB Shallot (as soon as I can get my hands on one). Definitely a satin blade finish and maybe a wood scale.

Phillip
 
I'm working on acquiring every version of the Leek. If it's got to be a hands-on project, then I'm carving some green burl wood handles out for my Leek CB. Yes, I'm even fine-chiseling the nested part for the torsion bar and its liner.
 
JNieporte said:
If it's got to be a hands-on project, then I'm carving some green burl wood handles out for my Leek CB. Yes, I'm even fine-chiseling the nested part for the torsion bar and its liner.
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I had the same crazy idea and am working on doing the same thing with some green micarta. It is going to take me some time though I think. I am also making the stock clip on the leek a low ride clip.
 
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The only pimping I've done was swapping and polishing some screws between my Shallot and Leek.

The Shallot came with black screws, which look goofy to me, and my dark-red Leek came with Silver screws, ditto. So I swapped the silver Leek screws in the Shallot, the black Shallot screws into the Leek, and polished the top of the pivot pin on the shallot to remove the paint/coating/whatever it is. They both look better now :)
 
I keep putting off sending 2 sets of 1660 Ti slabs to STR
to be anodized.
I tend to procrastinate. :o
 
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