Anyone do manual to auto conversions?

[muskrat man]

I have a couple slipjoint folders (big ones around 5") that i'd love to have converted to autos, does anyone know where I culd have something like that done?

[j.a.c.]

http://www.tbarkcustomknives.com/

[xlr8]

I saw some case copperlocks and cheetahs that T bar K converted to D/A while at the blade show. It looked like they did a pretty good job. I imagine they have to make a completely new backspring, as their conversions are leafspring fired.

[redeye]

TANK{MIKE} does great work on the case conversions .i have owned a few and they were awesome knives .i wish i still had them. get a hold of him and he will let ya know what it will take to convert your knives to auto. it wont be cheap but neither will the work.

[muskrat man]

looks like he don't work on anything but the case's. Darn, still on the hunt

[turbo_dog]

looks like he don't work on anything but the case's. Darn, still on the hunt

He does other stuff. At the Blade Show, he showed me some Marbles conversions he did. You should contact him and see what he can do. His work is phenomenal.

[James]

This is a great topic and I have often thought about who could or would convert a nice manual to an auto. I have seen some of the knives one of the Vallotton knife makers have converted and they are great. I remember seeing a large Al Mar folder one of them converted and it looked fantastic.

Thanks:

James

[muskrat man]

I did contanct him and his response was "that is is not cost effective" becasue he said it took 4-5 days to tool up and get the bugs worked out of a design and in that time he could do several copperlock or cheetah conversions. He said he no longer did individual one offs for clients. That is assuming we're still talking about T bar K

[turbo_dog]

oops- I stand corrected