customizing a custom!
customizing a custom!
I've owned this knife for awhile. It was an early piece from a custom maker. Nice knife, but I didn't carry it much. Sadly the handles, which I believe are Koa, looks to have dried out or shrunk, and failed and cracked at the pin. Since it wasn't much use in that state, I modded it with some of my dyed stag.
I like the knife even better now, and I think it will make it into my EDC rotation! Here's some before and after pics...
I like the knife even better now, and I think it will make it into my EDC rotation! Here's some before and after pics...
Re: customizing a custom!
Perfect customization.
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Looks like the woodgrain ran across the handle material rather than the preferred lengthwise. Could have led to the cracking? The new stag looks great.
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Beautiful Glenn. You always have the best looking stag for your knives.
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Genngood, that is amazing! What an improvement! You are the gnarly stag king.
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That’s a real beauty now!
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Super nice, as always Glenn! That broken knife is now a thing of beauty. I think that OC is correct. Having the grain of the original wood scales running crossways like that is just asking for trouble, IMHO.
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Beautiful work Glennbad, that's what I love to see, take a knife with cracks or issues and turn it around into a flawless, beautiful, one of a kind piece of function and form and a showstopper. Killer knife. Congrats.
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100% improvement! You do some great work in stag!
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That looks much better than the original! Nice work is always!
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