Alright more pics coming soon - I'm super busy with work during the week this time of year, as I own a Refrigeration service company, so be patient.
As I asked on the Böker thread, are the knife grips really painted??
Let me understand. They cast the knife in black, then they painted the grips OD (the painter took care to leave the screws black), they gave metal accents/distress look to the blade, added a real distressed clip and then they even painted a tiny Böker logo to later obscure it...WOW. That´s attention to detail, specially for a stunt knife...No my knife is a rubber cast stunt knife, non functional. It was cast in all black rubber, and the handle was painted OD green.
Let me understand. They cast the knife in black, then they painted the grips OD (the painter took care to leave the screws black), they gave metal accents/distress look to the blade, added a real distressed clip and then they even painted a tiny Böker logo to later obscure it...WOW. That´s attention for detail, specially in a stunt knife...
Precisely correct
They did cast the two sides of the handle and blade separately, though - and then assembled the three pieces in to a finished piece.
I knew silicone copied detail very well, but not THAT well.When the knife was moulded the inscribed details such as the boker name and blade type etc would have been transferred into the mould. Silicone is great at picking up the tiniest details. I have a rubber boker knife cast from an original boker knife and those details are on my cast.