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Title: CRKT Neck Knife Facelift
Post by: Hunter 709 on May 12, 2010, 10:55:00 PM

Well, I hesitate to post here as I am not a knife maker but I do enjoy a beautifully made custom knife and love looking at all the posts on this forum.

I have had a CRKT Fixed Falcon neck knife for about 8 or 9 years now. I actually bought it before I had ever heard of a neck knife, I just thought it was a cool little fixed blade.

I had an idea to remove the Zytel scales and replace them with some flame maple that a friend had given me. It took a bit of work and I definitely made a few mistakes but overall I am happy with how it turned out.

Here is the knife with the Zytel scales.

    (http://i980.photobucket.com/albums/ae287/earlbargen/CRKTNeck1.jpg)

And here is a few pictures with the flame maple scales.

    (http://i980.photobucket.com/albums/ae287/earlbargen/CRKTNeck2.jpg)

    (http://i980.photobucket.com/albums/ae287/earlbargen/CRKTNeck3.jpg)

I carried this knife as a neck knife this last deer season (after reading G. Fred Asbell's article in Traditional Bowhunter Magazine) and found it quite useful, I am looking forward to carrying it this season with my recent improvements.

Thanks for taking a look.

Title: Re: CRKT Neck Knife Facelift
Post by: Ragnarok Forge on May 13, 2010, 12:35:00 AM

Looks great.  Enjoy it.

Title: Re: CRKT Neck Knife Facelift
Post by: skullworks on May 13, 2010, 06:03:00 AM

Nice work! I've done one RAT neck knife like that and have 5 more to do.

 (http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c154/Skullworks02/KNIVES/100_3779.jpg)
 (http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c154/Skullworks02/KNIVES/100_3780.jpg)

Title: Re: CRKT Neck Knife Facelift
Post by: prarieboy on May 13, 2010, 03:54:00 PM

Hey Hunter that is a lot better than than it was!

Title: Re: CRKT Neck Knife Facelift
Post by: Zbearclaw on May 13, 2010, 06:43:00 PM

Looks great!!!

Title: Re: CRKT Neck Knife Facelift
Post by: Manitoba Stickflinger on May 13, 2010, 09:27:00 PM

Sweet!!

Title: Re: CRKT Neck Knife Facelift
Post by: owlbait on May 14, 2010, 08:22:00 PM

Those scales look alive, they look like they have veins in them! Definite improvement. Nice work.

Title: Re: CRKT Neck Knife Facelift
Post by: Hunter 709 on May 16, 2010, 10:37:00 AM

Thanks everyone for the kind comments, I had a lot of fun with this little project.  Next I'd like to make a new sheath for this knife, hopefully I can get it done by deer season.

Skullworks, I love the wood handles on your Rat it looks so much better than just plain metal or cord wrap.

Title: Re: CRKT Neck Knife Facelift
Post by: Throop on May 29, 2010, 08:59:00 PM

Can you please do that to my bench made so awesome great work guys!!!!!!!!!

Title: Re: CRKT Neck Knife Facelift
Post by: WESTBROOK on June 05, 2010, 08:37:00 PM

Aahhh...that looks a lot better!

Actually, I got a knife just like that, guess what I'm gonna do...

Eric

Title: Re: CRKT Neck Knife Facelift
Post by: BowHuntingFool on June 12, 2010, 03:28:00 PM

Sweet work, looks a heck out a lot better than before! Well done!