Modified Production Knives (traditional only)

[Catdaddy2]

Looks good Josh!

 

[r8shell]

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Did you do that jigging by hand? I'm impressed by how straight and even you got the divots!

 

[JohnDF]

That's awesome!
It improves that knife so much in my eyes.

 

[Rose and Thistle Custom]

Did you do that jigging by hand? I'm impressed by how straight and even you got the divots!

Sorry for the (very) late reply. The jigging is one of Culpepper's patterns "American standard"

 

[Terdl76]

Another 85 lifter in jigged and bear lake in blue mammoth...

https://imgur.com/a/1gs7x43

 

[Terdl76]

Sacrilegious? BF86 in blue mammoth

https://imgur.com/a/aBuNdc9

 

[marcus52AR]

^That looks amazing! Nice job.

 

[Catdaddy2]

Sacrilegious? BF86 in blue mammoth

https://imgur.com/a/aBuNdc9

Very nicely done and that blue mammoth is fantastic.

 

[glennbad]

Sacrilegious? BF86 in blue mammoth

https://imgur.com/a/aBuNdc9

Both of those are beautiful Ted!

 

[Rose and Thistle Custom]

 

[waynorth]

The older Sfilato is a traditional Italian design! The old one, living in an archive drawer, was a generous gift from Rachel in TX, and it inspired me to ask, and Rhidian to make, this modern day version of Bone and Carbon Steel!! I step back in time, into Italy, every time I pocket this knife!!
I see it's starting to acquire a worthy patina!!
r8shell

 

[mrknife]

The older Sfilato is a traditional Italian design! The old one, living in an archive drawer, was a generous gift from Rachel in TX, and it inspired me to ask, and Rhidian to make, this modern day version of Bone and Carbon Steel!! I step back in time, into Italy, every time I pocket this knife!! View attachment 1567575
I see it's starting to acquire a worthy patina!!
r8shell

I wish that knife had an end cap

 

[r8shell]

The older Sfilato is a traditional Italian design! The old one, living in an archive drawer, was a generous gift from Rachel in TX, and it inspired me to ask, and Rhidian to make, this modern day version of Bone and Carbon Steel!! I step back in time, into Italy, every time I pocket this knife!! View attachment 1567575
I see it's starting to acquire a worthy patina!!
r8shell

I wish that knife had an end cap

Surely you jest!

 

[r8shell]

This one came out a little weird. There seems to be some odd porosity to the bone causing the ink to bleed under the surface, especially around the end of the tail. Disappointing, but I guess it fits a murky underwater theme.

 

[Just Tom.]

This one came out a little weird. There seems to be some odd porosity to the bone causing the ink to bleed under the surface, especially around the end of the tail. Disappointing, but I guess it fits a murky underwater theme.

It looks great to me, but if you are concerned about it maybe you could add a squid or octopus and explain the ink clouds that way
Still impressive work - I’d be lucky if I managed to scratch my initials in it legibly…

 

[jsdistin]

Another 85 lifter in jigged and bear lake in blue mammoth...

https://imgur.com/a/1gs7x43

Sacrilegious? BF86 in blue mammoth

https://imgur.com/a/aBuNdc9

I’m still interested in how and why you are choosing to sink some of the rivets? They do look great

 

[euroken]

This one came out a little weird. There seems to be some odd porosity to the bone causing the ink to bleed under the surface, especially around the end of the tail. Disappointing, but I guess it fits a murky underwater theme.

That looks so natural to me and if you hadn't said anything, I would have thought it was a feature on the bone!

 

[jsdistin]

This one came out a little weird. There seems to be some odd porosity to the bone causing the ink to bleed under the surface, especially around the end of the tail. Disappointing, but I guess it fits a murky underwater theme.

Looks amazing!

 

[r8shell]

It looks great to me, but if you are concerned about it maybe you could add a squid or octopus and explain the ink clouds that way

I like that idea!

That looks so natural to me and if you hadn't said anything, I would have thought it was a feature on the bone!

I'm coming around to liking it on this knife (seahorses are freaky looking anyway) but I wouldn't want it on some designs. I wonder if there's a way to predict it. I usually apply wax to the bone to avoid every odd bit of grain taking the ink, and I may have forgotten to do that this time.

Looks amazing!

Thank You!

 

[penguin9]

This is my first attempt at putting a handle on a knife. It was a lot of fun and definitely won't be my last. The knife is a new Boker Trapper that comes as a skeleton, ready for someone like me. I'm a lot more comfortable and experienced working with wood than I am with metal, so I wanted to start out in my area of strength (ok, maybe not that strong, but better than nothing!).

Here's the knife as I received it:

And here's how it came out:

I used some walnut that came from a tree in my back yard. It's not stabilized, but walnut should be ok as-is. It's finished with Danish oil and a bit of wax.

All in all I'm pretty happy with how it came out. It's certainly not to the level of quality as the other posts in this thread, but I will get better.

If I do another like this, I would take it apart and then pin the covers on. It looks kinda bare without them.

Also, it arrived with a nail-breaker pull on the primary blade. I intended to do something about it before I did the handles, but in my excitement I forgot all about it. Oh, well. I've flushed it out and oiled it several times, but the back spring is just too strong. I'm not sure how to fix that yet, but I'll come up with something...