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Do you have an Ugly Spidie?

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I sent away for a project knife to do some practicing for metal finishing. It's an older Spyderco Delica Clipit in VG 10, with a bit of wear showing on the blade. I got it "used" and I must say I'm not disappointed, it's all I could ever wish for in a project knife. I'm not sure how this finish was achieved, but it looks like it may have been done with a Dremel and several quarts of strong coffee. I sent an email to the previous owner, but so far haven't heard back yet about the finish and how it was achieved.

Here are a couple of pictures showing off the fine "patina" as it arrived yesterday. I'll post more once I've done some work on it, but for now this will have to do. Don't worry, I'm putting on my nomex skivies, if you would care to comment on the finer points of this blade.

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The only ugly thing associated with any of my Spydercos is me ;) and no amount of cleaning is gonna help that....

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I had this one.
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But I fixed it.
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I have several I've taken sandpaper to in order to get rid of deeper scratches and or rust. I end up with a satin type finish of sorts though it doesn't look professional. It does clean ok and doesn't rust which was the purpose. I have a lot of older knives in general like that I had to de rust to get it stopped before pitting got too deep. I have never went for a really fine or mirror finish but I do enough to get the rust than even it out and quit. :) I tried a dremel once and went back to hand sanding. I used to hit up flea markets looking for old carbon steel knives when they were a little harder to find. Back in the 80's carbon steel was only used in a few lines. Fixed blades weren't as bad but folders, especially ones I could afford back then were all pretty much stainless. There wasn't any VG10, S30V, S90V, M390 etc. around either in production knives until Spyderco, then Benchmade, Microtech etc. started looking for better steels.They drove things as they still do now I recall being very impressed with G2/Gin 1 compared to the usual and I began looking around which turned into a full blown steel junky compulsion. Even thousand dollar knives (Randall etc. ) were 440 grade steel.

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Sithus1966 wrote:
But I fixed it.
Nice! I like what you did there!

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Repaired User VG10 Dragonfly with a ZDP Dragonfly w/o damage.

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Repaired tip damaged 440V CE (now looks like full SE) Military with a non damaged Military.

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A Delica II SS that came to me with only about 1" of blade left. The rest was snapped off somehow.

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This one has moved on to one of my co-workers who is no longer in my location.
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Those are some interesting repair jobs!

On another forum, I saw someone selling their Temperance with a broken tip, for $20 shipped. Maybe I should buy it to learn how to do blade rescues? :)
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rodloos wrote:Those are some interesting repair jobs!

On another forum, I saw someone selling their Temperance with a broken tip, for $20 shipped. Maybe I should buy it to learn how to do blade rescues? :)
Do it, restore it, then sell it to me at the same price. It was just a learning tool, right? :p
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I think I've posted this one before, but this guy has been the go-to office knife at my work for quite a number of years. Still sharpens up real well!

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OK, been busy this morning, along with a few chores. Too hot outside now (109 & still climbing today), so I'm enjoying the AC & better working conditions inside the house. I used a drum sander for some general scratching of the worst gouges, but there are still a few showing which I won't remove completely.

Here's an intermediate shot or two of the rough sanding.
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The spine after a bit of sanding, it's better now.
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Here's a bit more, hand sanding up to 600 grit with a small, hard rubber block. I went from 180 to 600 at this point.
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The clip was sanded & polished, a new lanyard was made & cleaning is done, so here's the "new" knife and my next member for the EDC rotation. I did a 15 d.p.s. bevel and used the hard, fine white stone for the blade finish of the bevel, no micro-bevel at this point. I may strop the edge to bring up a polish, but it's doubtful at this point. Don't want to spoil it, after all.
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If you find an old knife, the steel is pretty forgiving and patient in waiting for a new owner and better times. You will be able to keep it as a user if there's a bit of time & elbow grease available. You don't need power tools, just some sand paper and a sharpener will make things right. If I do anything else over time, I'll post an image or two for fun.
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This customized Scorpius is a testament to the perils of low resolution ebay photos and waiting too many years to get new glasses. Perfectly functional despite the decorative grinding, rubbery black paint and free form scale.

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You win Squim.
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Yep, I'll keep looking, but those scales are going to be hard to beat! Never seen anything quite like that before, hope you didn't overpay. ;)
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I think it was in the $30 - $35 range. Apparently the other bidders could see it better than I could.

add-> Actually the blade is like new, lockup is solid and the weird scale gives a more comfortable grip. I'd use it if it weren't so ugly.
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Excellent jobs, you guys!
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From this:
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To this:
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Revived this rescue some time back, here is the link.
http://www.spyderco.com/forums/showthre ... ght=rescue

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Sequimite wrote:This customized Scorpius is a testament to the perils of low resolution ebay photos and waiting too many years to get new glasses. Perfectly functional despite the decorative grinding, rubbery black paint and free form scale.

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I think it is beautiful, but people tell me otherwise...
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Evil D wrote:I don't think I've ever felt the need to punch a knife, but if that knife had a face, I'd punch it.
Lol
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