I picked up an esee 3 off ebay, and, after giggling like a little girl while turning countess receipts and random sticks into a pile of shavings all over my balcony, I used a small file to remove some of the coating on the spine of the blade, just after the thumb jimping, more or less.
The problem that I'm having is that, with my firestarter, I can barely get it to spark, if at all.
The flint sparks fine with hacksaw blades, a small swiss army knife ripoff, etc. Just not the esee.
I'd seen people perform a similar modification on carbon steel moras, so I was assumming it'd work fine. Anybody have any ideas, or did I ruin the powdercoating on mine for no practical purpose?
The problem that I'm having is that, with my firestarter, I can barely get it to spark, if at all.
The flint sparks fine with hacksaw blades, a small swiss army knife ripoff, etc. Just not the esee.
I'd seen people perform a similar modification on carbon steel moras, so I was assumming it'd work fine. Anybody have any ideas, or did I ruin the powdercoating on mine for no practical purpose?