Color Chan­ging Kni­ves DIY

After years of unsuc­cessful sear­ching for pro­per kni­ves sets and not fin­ding them, I deci­ded to go for mys­elf and make them up. Here is the pro­ce­dure, which will give you some nice kni­ves and sets in any color com­bi­na­tion you might want.

First of all, I use some of the cheap imi­ta­tion kni­ves from China. They are basi­cally ripp-offs of the clas­sic Enar­doe kni­ves, but they work well here, because they are very chea­ply made and you can easily remove the hand­les, spray paint them and glue them back to the knife. You could get them here.

After having sepa­rate all the parts (which is quite easy because of the cheap glue and sloppy work­man­ship they use) ever­y­thing is clea­ned from the glue. Then I spray pain­ted the parts in the colors I wanted.

Disassembled knives---here you can clearly see the cheap glue and sloppy workmanship.
Dis­as­sem­bled kni­ves — here you can cle­arly see the cheap glue and sloppy workmanship.
The first coat is plain white, so that the other colors show up bet­ter later.
Much better! :-)
Much bet­ter! 🙂

Last step is to assem­ble them back again in the desi­red color com­bi­na­ti­ons (using pro­per glue this time). Ready for all the fancy and exo­tic knife routines!

Who said copies are bad? They only give you extra work and trou­ble re-buil­ding them into the pro­per thing …