Ontario Knife

[Indifferent]

I have a complaint against the company, and a rave about the knife.

The rave, the knife I bought was the Spec Plus 8 Machete, 10" blade, over a 1/4" thick. Very Solid knife, very nice sheath. I made some modifications that have made it even better.

The Complaints, it was and is still advertised as having a double milled saw blade, meaning built like a real saw. The knife has a 1/4" thick ridges, that don't saw anything. I modified these to make it work like a saw. And I emailed the company to let them know, about this misrepresentation, been a week with no response!

 

[EHCRain10]

I have the same knife, how did you modify the sawback to make it work better?
pics please?

 

[Indifferent]

Well after starting one way, then trying a different way, then finally doing it the right way, my words of wisdom are, take your time, don't do it while sipping on beverages in the hot sun.

Step 1, would be to follow the angle the ridges are cut as, and make them deeper.
Step 2, taper the ridges from the 1/4" base into a 1/16" tooth (like your sharpening the edge)
Step 3, hook the teeth, use a small file or a dremel, and make each tooth into a slight hook, not a "V" shape, but a hook shape. ")"
Step 4, Make one tooth pointy to the right, the next tooth pointy to the left (you should get a slight stagger, so the teeth will bite, and sipe)

You can see all my mistakes and the many paths I tried, but you also see what I was trying to do, and yes it works better than stock.
If I had a fresh blade, it would look much better than this one, this was the first time I tried to modify a Blade, I've never even sharpened before.
But you get the idea.

 

[ArfinGreebly]

"Double Milled"

I've seen that spine -- in fact I may have one. It's different from your spine (and I've seen that one, too).

The "double milled" to which they refer can be described as criss-crossed deep filework on the spine that produces (IIRC) two or three rows of staggered "teeth" along the back of the blade.

These "teeth" aren't particularly long, and are symetrically sloped, so you're not going to get anywhere near the bite you would get from a purpose-made saw.

If I can locate it, I'll post a pic.

 

[EHCRain10]

Indifferent, looks like a good piece of work to me
id be proud of that if it was my first time at modifying a blade

 

[Indifferent]

Well I wish it looked better, and now I know.

I actually want to make a knife, one day, one day.

 

[sixgunner455]

Indifferent, there are saw files specially designed to sharpen saws that would make your work on that saw easier, and look a bit cleaner. Triangle file is what you would be looking for.

 

[Indifferent]

Thanks for the comments and suggestions!

I used it last night for the fun of it to chop fire wood, (the local kids in my complex didn't like the fire, they said it hurt their lungs, I was like whaaat?) cut up an avacado and also today to chop up vegetables and hotdogs and some other things to make a nice stew.

It was a tad chilly for my blood this morning (60degrees) I know, I know.

I've never seen snow