Post by Shorttime on Aug 18, 2018 9:36:28 GMT -8
A side effect of being a knife enthusiast is that items of.... questionable quality find their way to you.
Like this one.
This piece was part of a collection that had some worthwhile stuff in it, and a few that I don't feel any remorse about practicing on.
They couldn't even be bothered to get the ricasso stamp right. That's how you know.
I can't do anything about the gap between the ricasso and guard.
But I can do something about the guard itself.
Man, that's a bad picture. Eh. Good enough in this case, right?
These "saw teeth" might actually work, with a little modification. There is science behind getting these right, and on most of the Lile/Buckmaster/Rambo copies, they are more like extreme jimping, than an actual wood-cutting tool.
Ugh. They're even worse, close-up.
I can do something about the clip, too. As you can see, making all those bevels meet up in a clean and professional fashion is something this fella hasn't mastered, yet.
The yellow tinge on the blade (especially visible in the second picture) is lacquer. It's on all of these knives, and I'm not going to remove it, yet. Dry lacquer is pretty durable, and requires equally vicious chemicals for removal. I might see how a little Hydrochloric etch makes this blade look after everything else, because I doubt that it's really all that "stainless".