My pimped Byrd Crossbill !

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My pimped Byrd Crossbill !

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I modified my Byrd Crossbill to suit my needs and as a try out.
I waved the blade, it's very functional both in quickdraw and slow. I also dimpled the lefthand scale to enhance grip and thransferred to tip up.
Opening is very smooth, bot with the wave as with the thumbhole.

What do you guys think?
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That's not a wave, that's a Tsunami! The blade looks weakened, but you've done a lot of work on it! Very nice!

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That does look like the blade is weakened, but I don't know how else you could wave it.

Is it possible to get a closer look at that dimpling? Also, how did you do it?
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That thing looks seriously cool. :cool: I've always wanted to try waving one of my knives, I like the look it gives them.
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ghostrider wrote:Is it possible to get a closer look at that dimpling? Also, how did you do it?
Ditto, I'm also curious how you dimpled the handle. Looks freakin sweet though
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looks cool Jim! a waved Crossbill looks like the ticket! :cool:
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The blade looks weak, but that's how the comet shaped thumbhole is made. I don't know how i could have waved it without more loss of blade. I had to choose between having a large enough wave, and strenght of the blade.
I could have made the wave smaller, but it would have caused less reliabilty and the same weakness in the blade. Once you "wave" one of these knives, only the amount of blade steel between the comet hole and the cutting edge is left.
Because metal always breaks at the weakest link, it didn't make any difference how i made the wave. So i opted for reliability.
The dimples i made with a hardened steel punch, it was just a excersise to see if i was do able to punch a LOT of small holes in the handle, and to see if it enhanced grippage. It does enhance very wel, about the resistance of blue G10. I am very pleased with the functional side of it.I do have to add more dimples in the middle of the handle.
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Very cool :cool: , mind telling me how you did it? I'm not very good at customizing my own knives, but I might try it with a Byrd due to the prices. :D :spyder:
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Jim,

Thats a very cool idea..and nice job, too!

I agree...I might pick one up because of price and play with it. I love hawkbills...
Looks like you've got yourself a great EDC/user! :)
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awesome, I'm sure the blade is still strong enough the handle is cool
and of course, now you can wave!

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Awesome job. Looks very cool.
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I just used a rotating disk cutter to cut the wave of , and then a round file to give the wave his final form. It didn't took me long to do it. Then i used the steel punch and punch each hole individualy with a hammer. Then i adjusted the tension of the two scales to make it flip open again easely.
Now this was a try out. I will do the stippling with a carbide Dremel needlepoint next time ( it won't cause stuctural tension, and you can make dimples and snakelike criss cross patterns on the handlewithout pounding it with a hammer).
Thx for the nice comments! :)
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Awesome Looking Jim,...but as others have already stated that blade looks weakened...It looks like you had fun doing it though....enjoy! Doc :D
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Hi Jim! That is very neat. I found the Byrds perfect to experiment on as well due to price/quality. However, I have never posted any as my experiment's results turned out not near as well as yours. :o Well done.
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That's a very cool looking knife you made there Jim, congratulations and thanks for sharing. The blade is probably weaker now, but I don't think this is a problem, as long as you use the knife (strictly) for cutting. ;)
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Wave would work with zip tie too. And you would not weaken the blade :rolleyes:
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I find the zip tie method unreliable.
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zenheretic wrote:I find the zip tie method unreliable.
i find it depends on the knife, on the dodo it works great, on the Native it pretty much dosn't work at all.
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zenheretic wrote:I find the zip tie method unreliable.
Its individual, but IMO better as weaken the blade.
I believe even the Crossbill you can wave with dremel, and not weaken the blade that much.

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Not very much into waves myself, but you did a great job on this one :cool: :cool:
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