Modified Production Knives (traditional only)

[WhittlinAway]

Felt my 98 needed less bump in the closed position and a sharper sheepfoot.

Nice job. That looks like a very useful profile. :thumbup:

 

[ecallahan]

(I moved my question to 'Maintenance')

 

[VashHash]

Finished this one last night


Together

 

[Chrislightning]

Case XX red bone trapper that I added file work to. I did backsprings inside and out, blades, and liners. You can look up durhamknives on facebook to see more of my work. Thank you

 

[derrman79]

Case XX red bone trapper that I added file work to. I did backsprings inside and out, blades, and liners. You can look up durhamknives on facebook to see more of my work. Thank you

WOW....just WOW!

 

[Chrislightning]

thank you. I am trying to come up with unique ideas for customizing knives. It is hard every time I think I come up with something or a great idea I see it has been done. Tom Stratton showed me how to do this filework pattern. I have some custom handles I am working on with resin and also carbon fiber. I have not sold any of the handle work yet. I am using alumilite and testing to see how it holds up. Seems to be doing really good so far. I was worried about it scratching up easy or the scales coming loose.

 

[birdvis]

All these knives have been and inspiration to me and have given me the confidence to enter the world of traditional knife modification. As soon as I figure out how to add pictures to my posts I will show everyone what I've done.
Thanks everyone!

 

[birdvis]

Ok, here you go! These are the first two knives I modified this week. Let me know what you all think.

 

[greentrout]

Those look great birdvis! Now that you have posted, you should do it more often!

 

[derrman79]

Really clean work! Kudos

 

[birdvis]

Thanks a lot fellas! I've got a pile of 29s on my workbench ready for new life.


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[mike Berkovitch]

Ok, here you go! These are the first two knives I modified this week. Let me know what you all think.

Great looking knives, I believe everyone would love one in his (or her ) pocket.
I really love the black one.

Mike

 

[Wurrwulf]

Great job on those mods, birdvis! I especially like the blue liners with the Natural Canvas Micarta!

 

[orca8589]

I bought this Case Peanut a couple years ago, and originally planned to send it in to Case to be re-bladed. Both blades were snapped off, with very little of the pen blade left. I've bought several knives over the years with broken blades, and modified them into Sheepfoot or Wharncliffe blades, and sometimes if too much blade material is gone, I'll make it into a tool. (I've done this mainly with old U.S. Schrade knives.)

So, last week I decided to make the main blade on the Peanut into a sheepfoot, and the pen blade into a coping pattern. I goobered on the coping mod, when I snagged the tip on the grinding wheel. If I had tried to make it into a coping blade after that, there wouldn't have been enough of a nail nick to open the blade. So, I turned it into a very small pen blade, mainly just to get the tip below the handle line.

The main blade works really well as a little whittler blade, and to my mind, doesn't necessarily look out of place in that small Peanut handle. However, the small pen blade works really well for blister packs, pill bottle foil seals, and as a handy little box knife: you can open a box with it, and not worry about damaging anything inside. And it's perfect for sharpening pencils in my little shop area. (I re-dadgum-fuse to allow mechanical pencils in my garage/shop/cave/hovel.)

I had figured that I'd do the mods now, and send it in when our finances are in better shape, but I think I'll keep this one as is. It's proven itself to be really handy in this configuration. I have the shield, I just have to glue it back in.

So, here it is, my new traditional knife pattern, the 'Sheep-Nut':

Here's some old U.S. Schrades that I've done in the past:
U.S. Schrade 77OT, Muskrat pattern. One blade tip broken off, one bent. I turned both into semi-Wharncliffe types.


Each of these has one, two, or all three blades modified:


~Chris

 

[birdvis]

Today I made some progress on another tl29. Natural canvas and paper micarta with red liners. Will be adding an easy open notch and will do some finish work on the blade.

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[derrman79]

Nice color combo. Those tl29's sure are hard to leave alone, aren't they.

 

[66sprint6]

All these gorgeous TL-29 mods are too much...so I may have ordered...a couple TL-29s to play with. I hope they turn out as amazing as all of yalls!!!

Matt

 

[North Shore]

I have this KA-BAR stockman the size of a Buck 303. Country Western scales sterling silver and gold monogram. This is an older work, not my own and not for me. I will get better pictures next time I'm home.

 

[spyderg]

I don't know how I missed this thread before?! I've got to get around to figuring out how to link some pics. I recovered a knife I found in an old box, my first knife actually. A gift from my great uncle when I was about 8 or so.

 

[greentrout]

I started with an Old Hickory 3" paring knife. I modified the clip point to somewhat of a drop point and put on OD green canvas micarta scales. Since the OH paring knife isn't a full tang, I made a spacer of orange G10.