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Glock Transformation
And here a Glock 78 reborn in DuraCoat Coyote Tan. I love DuraCoat!
And here a Glock 78 reborn in DuraCoat Coyote Tan. I love DuraCoat!
Great story!Hey Yo
Thanks for posting that Imperial folding fishing knife. One was my first pocket knife and given to me by my fishing buddy, my Grandfather.
Sadly within a year I had fallen to temptation and after having played a few games of mumblypeg with it took a dare and a challange to throw it against a tree. I did hit closest to the mark and it was easy to tell by the broken blade we had to remove from the tree with pliers. My dad made me carry the bladeless folding fish scaler for several months as a learning experience.
-kBob
Hey Yo
Thanks for posting that Imperial folding fishing knife. One was my first pocket knife and given to me by my fishing buddy, my Grandfather.
Sadly within a year I had fallen to temptation and after having played a few games of mumblypeg with it took a dare and a challange to throw it against a tree. I did hit closest to the mark and it was easy to tell by the broken blade we had to remove from the tree with pliers. My dad made me carry the bladeless folding fish scaler for several months as a learning experience.
-kBob
Can I just grind down and shape a piece of truck spring and expect it to chop well as a sort of heavy knife?
Much more. You can make a quite serviceable knife from a truck spring but doing so involves a whole lot more than just grinding it down (annealing, shaping, sharpening, tempering, polishing...and then there's the scales and mounting/shaping them.) The knives pictured here are exceptional (and expensive) tools produced by talented craftsmen. Whenever I see, as in this thread, some really fine examples of the knifemakers art, I am surprised that they don't cost more than they do.Quote:
Can I just grind down and shape a piece of truck spring and expect it to chop well as a sort of heavy knife?
No, there's more to a knife than grinding a piece of metal into a knife shape.