Bushcraft UK - 2nds "heads-up"

[Rush2112]

I also had a nick in the blade edge of mine, I started to sharpen it to remove it but that scandi grind sure made it difficult. Not sure what happened I thought that I was alone with the nick until I read about others in this thread....??

[Sequimite]

One of mine had a very small nick in the blade. My theory is that these knives were handled so much in trying to fix the cracks and clean off the oil that some blades got bumped.

[razorback1595]

i've just placed an order, this will be my Birthday present :D

[Donut]

I ordered one Friday and it showed up today. The handles are not cracked, but they are pulling away from the blade steel towards the blade end of the handle. It seems like it will make a very nice user.

I will have to do some reading to see if there is a method to soften it to where I can form it back to the handle and somehow stabilize it from there.

[donutsrule]

^^Nice name, previous poster! :D

Mine showed up tonight. The wood is beautiful. One side is perfectly fine, the other has one huge crack and the wood has pulled away slightly from the tang at that spot. I'm gonna get some of that black cyanoacrylate in the next couple days and have my way with this thing. Don't know if I should try to fill the scale-tang gap as well as the crack.

The blade is hair-popping sharp, no dings, though it looks like it almost has a microbevel (thought they were zero-edge?).

I'll try it out when we take the kids camping next month. :D

[Donut]

Thanks, I've seen you around a bit and noticed the name.

10 more and we'll have a dozen. :)

[Pneumothorax]

The cracks on mine are closing up a bit. I will post some pics after a bit more to see if they close up all the way...my real problem is that Im having trouble resisting ordering another one - really, really no need other than such a nice looking knife...

[MCM]

Mine are healing at sea level as well.

Should have #2 here soon.
I feel like Forest Gump and his box of Chocolates.
"You never know what your gonna get"

[dsmegst]

This is the only time I've ever wished for higher humidity. :) I repaired the first one after 4 days of acclimation. I'm going to wait longer on the second one to see how much the handle will swell. If they can go back to the original size where the tang is flush and the cracks close, that would be awesome.

[Donut]

Mine does not have a nick on the blade, but it has one opposite the blade approximately where jimping would be.

[jabba359]

Mine does not have a nick on the blade, but it has one opposite the blade approximately where jimping would be.

That sounds to me like it's the seconds notch, indicating it was a knife that didn't pass QC and sold as imperfect.

[dsmegst]

Is anyone else doing oil finishes on these handles after filling the cracks? I'm using boiled linseed oil on one of them but I'm also interested on something a little more durable and waterproof for the second one.

I saw something called Minwax Wipe-On Poly at Lowes and I'm thinking of giving it try. A modern finish to compare with the traditional one. Any thoughts?

[Donut]

That sounds to me like it's the seconds notch, indicating it was a knife that didn't pass QC and sold as imperfect.

Oh, okay.

I thought ALL of the Bushcrafts ended up as seconds. (Doesn't mean they wouldn't all be marked.)

[dbcad]

Just recieved my 2nd 2nd. Only 2 small cracks on one scale, the other scale is perfect. Blade is sharp and clean, a marked difference from my first Bushcraft which still had oil residue on it and came with 4 large cracks, 2 on each scale. Both are beautiful, yet different.

The first was used prettily heavily this past weekend. Whittled a whole bunch and left a lot of shavings on my friends deck in the back. It cut bread in between whittling sessions :)

I plan to black CA my first Bushcraft this weekend as the cracks haven't changed after a week, then find some Tru oil and wet sand with steel wool it per Hectors advice. Maybe the sanding will round the edges of the tang in the handle. If I can get those rough edges smooth I feel the handle this knife will really be an extension of my arm. Wonderful design.

I'll post pictures in a new thread I'll create dedicated to folks who are taking these seconds and making them true to the dream that made them. (It's getting tough to navigate these 9+ pages).

Charlie

[dbcad]

One more thing :) , my wife said she isn't going to try to keep me from getting more knives, she just wants a way to store/display them :D :D

[MCM]

#2 showed up with wood filler. That makes it the instant user. Great wood but 5 cracks and filler make it the work knife. This one was destined to be a
2nd. And one to be used..... :)

[SpranK]

I got my second 2nd today....love these knives. I lucked out with the first one,almost no crack at all, but the new has some big ones that go all the way through the scales on both sides. Bummer! Anywho, these are great knives and I plan to use the heck out of this new one and tuck the other one away in the display case.

Top one is the new one today.

[dsmegst]

Here's my first Bushcraft, repaired and being refinished. I used the blue bottle Instant Jet CA glue to fill the cracks and boiled linseed oil as finish. It has 6 coats so far and I'll continue to do additional coats as time goes by.







This is the repaired cracks. They go all the way to the lanyard hole and slightly beyond. There are a few additional minor cracks but they're not visible.

[Hector Castro]

Here's my first Bushcraft, repaired and being refinished. I used the blue bottle Instant Jet CA glue to fill the cracks and boiled linseed oil as finish. It has 6 coats so far and I'll continue to do additional coats as time goes by.

This is the repaired cracks. They go all the way to the lanyard hole and slightly beyond. There are a few additional minor cracks but they're not visible.

Is the handle absorbing any of the BLO (boiled linseed oil) ?

[dsmegst]

Hi Hector,

First, please note that I've never done an oil finish before. My very limited woodworking experience involved varnishes and polyurethanes on normal wood. This is the very first time I'm trying this sort of a finish and I am using some boiled linseed oil I bought at the local craft store.

After the repair with CA glue, I used oil soaked wet sand paper to smooth everything. I did this 4 or 5 different times in the span of few days as I discovered additional places to fill and went through 3 grit steps. The handle seemed to soak up some of the oil as I did this step. I always wiped off the excess after all the sanding was done and let things dry out for a day between sanding sessions.

Next, I proceeded to rub the oil in for 15 minutes, followed by a round of wet sanding, a quick wipe and a thin layer of fresh oil. By the next day, it was completely dry and not tacky. I repeated this 2 more times. Then I did 3 more days of rubbing only. On the 6th day, the oil was almost completely dry but left a thin layer of tacky residue after 24 hours of drying. This is when I decided to stop the once a day cycle.

I plan to add 4 more coats, once every week and follow that with once a month for the rest of the year or at least until the handle no longer absorbs any more oil.

I don't know how fast boiled linseed oil drys or is absorbed, but it looked to me like the handle was absorbing some oil for at least the first 7 or 8 days. If it wasn't, I would have expected tacky residue on the handle much earlier.