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Butt kicker

Posted: Wed Apr 22, 2015 2:48 am
by glennbad
You ever have that one project on your bench, no matter how much you work on it, redo it, let it sit, come back to it, you can never seem to finish it to your satisfaction? This Moki 921 was my butt kicker.

Here is a borrowed pic of what the original looked like.

Moki 921.jpg

I had this knife for many, many months. I built it once and sent it to the owner. He wasn't happy with it. In retrospect, neither was I. He stuck with me and patiently left me to rebuild it and rework it on my bench several times from scratch. I finally ended up with what I felt was a decent end result and sent it to him. To my relief, he was happy with the build.

I learned a lot about my own patience (or lack of), perseverance, and doing the job until it is done right. It wasn't an especially hard build, but for whatever reason, it kicked my butt.

Anyway, here is an after pic. After spending so much time with it, I really started to like it.


moki 5.JPG
moki 6.JPG

Re: Butt kicker

Posted: Wed Apr 22, 2015 2:58 am
by #goldpan
Oh man oh man do I know how you feel. ::doh:: I have 225Q Catt. fixed blade that I began work on with a fever about three years ago. I look at it every week and just seem stuck on how finish it. Some day... She looks real nice to me ::tu:: I'm with ya on the patience thing. I never used to have much. But I'm getting better thanks to my tinkering with knives. As always Glenn your knives rock brother!! ::super_happy::

Randy

Re: Butt kicker

Posted: Wed Apr 22, 2015 4:08 am
by orvet
Looks good Glenn! ::tu::

Did it originally have a Zytel handle and you made the liners for the new handle?
I can imagine that would be a challenge!

Re: Butt kicker

Posted: Wed Apr 22, 2015 5:58 am
by junebug
MAN...I LIKE IT ,Glenn ::tu:: 8)
GREAT JOB! ::groove::

Re: Butt kicker

Posted: Wed Apr 22, 2015 12:07 pm
by glennbad
orvet wrote:Looks good Glenn! ::tu::

Did it originally have a Zytel handle and you made the liners for the new handle?
I can imagine that would be a challenge!
Yeah, the only things I reused were the lock bar, spring, and blade. I had to make everything else, including a metal piece to hold the end of the spring in place, and close in the back and bottom of the knife. Learned a lot about exact tolerances and thicknesses of my parts.

Most of my mods I am just re-using what is there, this was a totally different animal. And a lockback to boot, so everything has to fit just right. I have a newfound respect for custom makers.

Re: Butt kicker

Posted: Thu Apr 23, 2015 10:40 am
by DRS
Nice work Glenn!


Donald ::handshake::