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Etching Handle Scales?

July 20, 2018 18:56

Have Benchmade ever tried etching a pattern on a Grivory handle? G-10?

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bmkjason

July 20, 2018 22:00
Like laser etching?
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po

July 20, 2018 22:15
Yes.
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bmkjason

July 20, 2018 22:23
Burning G10 is toxic, so we've done it before, but we don't do it regularly. It has to be done with a laser that has its own filters and exhaust system.

Don't really know about plastic, but I'd assume it would have the same requirements.
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billhammer

July 21, 2018 02:27
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Originally posted by Po:
Have Benchmade ever tried etching a pattern on a Grivory handle? G-10?

/|\ That would be grievously dangerous
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po

July 21, 2018 03:42
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Originally posted by BMK Jason:
Burning G10 is toxic...Don't really know about plastic, but I'd assume it would have the same requirements.

Ew...
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scottk

July 21, 2018 15:52
Although maybe not what you were referring to, DoAT milled my name into a set of G10 940 scales. If the G10 has layers of different colors, it comes out pretty well.
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po

July 21, 2018 18:42
Yeah, milling would be the ultimate. I don't know where I got the idea Benchmade might do laser etching on handles. Maybe I saw a pic of an experiment on a Alumimun handle or something...
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bmkjason

July 23, 2018 16:36
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Originally posted by Po:
Yeah, milling would be the ultimate. I don't know where I got the idea Benchmade might do laser etching on handles. Maybe I saw a pic of an experiment on a Alumimun handle or something...

We'll do custom marks on aluminum handles, but nothing else.
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mastakeller

July 23, 2018 18:41
What about the pivot of a Crooked River or mini?
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bmkjason

July 23, 2018 20:35
Will we mark the pivot rings? No, I don't believe so. I don't actually know though. They're usually marked assembled.

That could be kinda cool though.
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lazercustumz

July 25, 2018 17:54
Not much to lasermark on the pivot rings so would be difficult get anything clear on the rings.
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bmkjason

July 25, 2018 19:49
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Originally posted by Lazer_Custumz:
Not much to lasermark on the pivot rings so would be difficult get anything clear on the rings.

Yeah it'd have to be sort of a randomized texture sort of deal. Nothing specific.
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mastakeller

July 26, 2018 19:52
I was really thinking the pivot itself. Small symbol on there. Obviously on the opposite side of the torques. Maybe even on the push button of an auto.
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bmkjason

July 30, 2018 17:16
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Originally posted by Mastakeller:
I was really thinking the pivot itself. Small symbol on there. Obviously on the opposite side of the torques. Maybe even on the push button of an auto.

You could mark that material, sure. I don't think we do that though.
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applerod

August 25, 2018 18:28
I'm a little late to this topic, but had to say I'll be forever grateful to Benchmade for lasermarking my Bradley Alias II. This was about 8 years ago. Considering what I paid at the time, they really went above and beyond.
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