Show off your Sak mod's!

Tinker88 · **Reply #6210 on:** March 28, 2024, 04:02:45 AM

First post. The community inspires! Could not find anything online about making a SAK scale tool nail file to fit in the slots. I am making one from a 58 mm sak copy. Removed the file (x design on one side and the 2 thin lines on the other). It’s cut and filed to fit. It needs the nail pull still. Thinking about a mold with jb weld that can be filed to shape. I would love your thoughts and ideas. My photo seemed too large to post.

Enginears · **Reply #6211 on:** March 28, 2024, 04:46:49 AM

Quote from: Tinker88 on March 28, 2024, 04:02:45 AM

First post. The community inspires! Could not find anything online about making a SAK scale tool nail file to fit in the slots. I am making one from a 58 mm sak copy. Removed the file (x design on one side and the 2 thin lines on the other). It’s cut and filed to fit. It needs the nail pull still. Thinking about a mold with jb weld that can be filed to shape. I would love your thoughts and ideas. My photo seemed too large to post.

Hey Tinker, welcome. Yes the community here is great and in this thread alone is a tome of great mods going back years. I have not made a file to fit in the slot as you describe, but I did a file scale tool once and to make the nail pull I used a piece of a scale super glued to the end of the file. This may be quicker and easier than the JB weld, although that sounds like it would work too. If you go back through my post attachments there are some pics of the scale file I made.

Enginears · **Reply #6212 on:** April 05, 2024, 07:03:47 PM

Made some tweaks to blade shape on my compact modeler.

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pa_strunk · **Reply #6213 on:** April 17, 2024, 04:21:30 AM

Saw a mod like this on eBay a while back and had to give it a try. The GAK2 wood saw, can/bottle-opener, file is not the most practical combo tool on a 108 mm. Shortening for a 93 mm probably even makes less sense, but I just had to do it if for no other reason but to watch my friends face when I offer it to them to open beer bottles.

AzteCypher · **Reply #6214 on:** April 17, 2024, 05:20:16 AM

PTRSAK · **Reply #6215 on:** May 23, 2024, 03:32:47 AM

I was having a rummage through one of my boxes of SAK parts looking to see if I had a suitable blade to repair an old knife and got distracted by a load of 74mm parts.
A couple of hours actual work and about 8 waiting on epoxy curing and here's a single layer Bladeless Executive with horn scales and brass bolsters.

yes there are still scratches but I think that brass&horn scales look better when they appear to have lived a full life. To further this appearance it will be riding in my pocket with a bunch of keys and handful of loose change for a while. Also need to age and tarnish that brass a bit with salt and vinegar.

Enginears · **Reply #6216 on:** May 23, 2024, 04:47:43 AM

Excellent PTRSAK, I really like the look. I bet the brass will get a real nice patina with a few weeks use.

IMR4198 · **Reply #6217 on:** May 24, 2024, 03:21:11 AM

Seems like I used to mix salt and vinegar as a brass cleaner. Patina in my pockets would come naturally in a few days time. Very attractive SAK and good work. Best wishes. G

AzteCypher · **Reply #6218 on:** May 25, 2024, 06:30:06 AM

That's a beautiful mods on that Executive. Swissbuck should've made their scales look like that versus the black ones.

PTRSAK · **Reply #6219 on:** June 13, 2024, 10:30:31 AM

I have a bunch of parts boxes with many incomplete knives in them. The interesting parts are the vintage components.
I have so many old knives with broken backsprings that it's depressing.
So I decided to do at least something about it. Rummaging through it all I found enough parts to make something that some would call cursed, but I think is more blursed. At least it gets some parts that were destined to languish in a plastic box into a usable, semi vintage, knife to stick in my pocket.
I guess it's a cousin to the Waiter and Apprentice in that it's a 84mm Bantam with a backtool but this one has a vintage round awl. Maybe a "cobbler", seeing that it has the awl/punch that could be used for leatherwork?
Anyway.. 84mm, A reasonable VICTORIA blade, Combo-tool, Round Awl, Nickel Silver liners, Celidor Scales with T&T from a Recruit cut to fit the Awl.
Hardly perfect, but who/what is?

AzteCypher · **Reply #6220 on:** June 13, 2024, 03:11:13 PM

Very cool!

Enginears · **Reply #6221 on:** June 13, 2024, 04:55:39 PM

Blursed or cursed I love it. Cool build.

samek · **Reply #6222 on:** June 26, 2024, 04:06:34 PM

Next in the line »Serching for the ideal VIC«. I know, such knife does not exist and it never will. I am carrying pocket knife every day since I was 10 years old, now I am 67. In this time I was I was going up from single blade knife to XXLT and since I am trying to mod knives (last 15 years) from XXLT down to something with 5 – 6 layers. In the last setup I combine size (not too big) with most important tools (for me), vintage look, bail, corkscrew and Phillips as backtools, awl-reamwr-punch from 93 mm knife, two big blades (one always stays sharp) and tip of the woodsaw formed to be nailcleaner. Handles sre stag I found in the woods.