Customized 300 Axis flipper

something

• January 10, 2013 20:26

It was begging to be done

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  joekarp

  • January 10, 2013 20:32

  Much better S'thing...very nice!

  

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  loonybin

  • January 10, 2013 20:42

  Imagine that with green/black or red/black G10...

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  different

  • January 10, 2013 20:48

  hey wow. that is far better. I like that

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  something

  • January 10, 2013 22:12

  quote:

  Originally posted by loonybin:
  Imagine that with green/black or red/black G10...

  
  
  I imagine that would look quite nice!
  
  I'm guessing it wouldn't work to dye the brown G10 though...

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  different

  • January 10, 2013 22:24

  yep some of those other colors would look better. But as far as brown goes, I think this looks way nicer, and besides, most brown benchmades aren't even really brown underneath.

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  jraysp

  • January 10, 2013 22:33

  Very nice!

  

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  whodareswins

  • January 10, 2013 22:53

  Well it didn't take long before somebody started to do the obvious..LOL

  

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  something

  • January 10, 2013 23:05

  quote:

  Originally posted by Who Dares Wins:
  Well it didn't take long before somebody started to do the obvious..LOL

  

  
  
  Yeah, I had planned to do this since before I got it, but it's hard to take a dremel to a brand new knife, so I had to beat it up a bit first

  

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  tdogg

  • January 11, 2013 00:57

  What's ur weight savings?! That sucker is pretty heavy to begin with.

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  tdogg

  • January 11, 2013 00:59

  ...and always curious; what was ur technique?

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  loonybin

  • January 11, 2013 01:21

  quote:

  Originally posted by something:
  
  I'm guessing it wouldn't work to dye the brown G10 though...

  
  Ah... no. Not unless you make it all black.

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  something

  • January 11, 2013 01:52

  quote:

  Originally posted by TDOGG:
  What's ur weight savings?! That sucker is pretty heavy to begin with.

  
  
  I hadn't really thought about that... I'll have to try weighing it. It does seem a bit lighter, but I wouldn't think the amount of G10 I took off would amount to a lot of weight, although it does feel a lot thinner now, so it may be more than I guessed.
  
  As far as technique goes, I took most of it off with a dremel and finished up with a 1" belt sander and some hand sanding.

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  something

  • January 11, 2013 17:00

  My scale puts it at 4.6oz now, and benchmade lists it as 4.85, so it looks like there is some weight savings, but not a huge amount (assuming my scale is accurate).

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  vance

  • January 11, 2013 18:43

  That looks great! Well done.

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  fastjan

  • January 11, 2013 19:57

  quote:

  Originally posted by TDOGG:
  ...and always curious; what was ur technique?

  I'd like to know as well. I just don't know what attachments you'd use to do that with a Dremel Tool.
  
  BTW, you did an excellent job of smoothing it.
  
  Also, maybe an idea for another thread...have any of you guys ever done any mods to a factory scale to make it "less" slippery, like adding grooves or waves or whatever? G-10 is just too danged slick and needs all the help it can get, so I'm looking for examples and ideas.

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  something

  • January 11, 2013 21:14

  quote:

  Originally posted by fastjan:
  

  quote:

  Originally posted by TDOGG:
  ...and always curious; what was ur technique?

  I'd like to know as well. I just don't know what attachments you'd use to do that with a Dremel Tool.
  
  BTW, you did an excellent job of smoothing it.
  
  Also, maybe an idea for another thread...have any of you guys ever done any mods to a factory scale to make it "less" slippery, like adding grooves or waves or whatever? G-10 is just too danged slick and needs all the help it can get, so I'm looking for examples and ideas.

  
  
  nothing too fancy, just a sanding drum on the Dremel, it really isn't as hard as you might think.
  
  Bead blasting seems to help a lot to make G10 less slippery, but the attempts I've made at any sort of grooves or pattern haven't turned out that well... it's just too hard to keep it consistent by hand.

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  fastjan

  • January 11, 2013 21:31

  quote:

  something wrote...nothing too fancy, just a sanding drum on the Dremel, it really isn't as hard as you might think.
  
  Bead blasting seems to help a lot to make G10 less slippery, but the attempts I've made at any sort of grooves or pattern haven't turned out that well... it's just too hard to keep it consistent by hand.

  That looks like great work for using mostly a sanding drum.

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  grampa

  • January 11, 2013 22:16

  Just curious - why didn't you do the whole job on the 1" belt grinder?

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  different

  • January 12, 2013 00:14

  quote:

  Originally posted by fastjan:
  

  quote:

  Originally posted by TDOGG:
  ...and always curious; what was ur technique?

  I'd like to know as well. I just don't know what attachments you'd use to do that with a Dremel Tool.
  
  BTW, you did an excellent job of smoothing it.
  
  Also, maybe an idea for another thread...have any of you guys ever done any mods to a factory scale to make it "less" slippery, like adding grooves or waves or whatever? G-10 is just too danged slick and needs all the help it can get, so I'm looking for examples and ideas.

  
  
  I did this to some bone collector scales after I'd sanded them down smooth. It took awhile with a round file. It's very hard to make things symetrical and nice. Besides that it's hard for me to come up with a decent looking pattern
  
  

  

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  trailboss

  • January 12, 2013 00:21

  Different, these look very good. Was it you or Something who scored the Bonesidio from B-Man? IIRC, he did something similar that also looked good.
  
  
  

  quote:

  Originally posted by different:
  
  

  

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  fastjan

  • January 12, 2013 00:30

  Different, I like it! I wonder how hard it would be to do one like this (below) and also, what attachment would you use on a Dremel?
  

  

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  something

  • January 12, 2013 03:00

  quote:

  Originally posted by Trailboss:
  Different, these look very good. Was it you or Something who scored the Bonesidio from B-Man? IIRC, he did something similar that also looked good.
  
  

  
  
  Yeah, that would be these scales - I swapped them with my Bone Collector so that my 520 and 525 would match, but yes they did turn out quite nice.
  
  

  

  
  
  This was one of my attempts at adding some texture. it's a little odd, but it did work pretty well to add grip.
  
  

  

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  different

  • January 12, 2013 03:49

  quote:

  Originally posted by fastjan:
  Different, I like it! I wonder how hard it would be to do one like this (below) and also, what attachment would you use on a Dremel?
  

  

  
  
  I'm sure that texture would be a breeze for someone with more skill than me. I am pretty good at texturing g10 when I'm just messing around, but whenever I try it on a scale I'm too nervous about making mistakes and I get shakey

  

  I'm sure DOAT could make scales like that.
  
  For the one I did I just used a good old fashioned file and did it by hand. It did wear through my skin and I bled on the scales but they cleaned up fine

  

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  different

  • January 12, 2013 03:50

  Those ones that Something has are pretty nice. someone spent a bunch of time on those with a file it looks like.

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  loonybin

  • January 12, 2013 05:51

  quote:

  Originally posted by different:
  
  For the one I did I just used a good old fashioned file and did it by hand. It did wear through my skin and I bled on the scales but they cleaned up fine

  

  
  The idea is to use the file on the scales, not your hands.
  
  Sheesh, you really are... different.

  

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  fastjan

  • January 12, 2013 06:55

  quote:

  Different wrote...I'm sure that texture would be a breeze for someone with more skill than me. I am pretty good at texturing g10 when I'm just messing around, but whenever I try it on a scale I'm too nervous about making mistakes and I get shakey I'm sure DOAT could make scales like that.
  

  I guess I need to see if I can increase my skill level by messing around on a bunch of G-10 cheapo knives.

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  different

  • January 13, 2013 01:21

  quote:

  Originally posted by loonybin:
  

  quote:

  Originally posted by different:
  
  For the one I did I just used a good old fashioned file and did it by hand. It did wear through my skin and I bled on the scales but they cleaned up fine

  

  
  The idea is to use the file on the scales, not your hands.
  
  Sheesh, you really are... different.

  

  
  
  I did start out with that idea in mind, but the stupid plastic handle wouldn't stay on the file so I needed to grab it where I got a good grip. I never felt anything until I saw blood on my g10 and wondered whether g10 wasn't really an organic product

  

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  different

  • January 13, 2013 01:22

  quote:

  Originally posted by fastjan:
  

  quote:

  Different wrote...I'm sure that texture would be a breeze for someone with more skill than me. I am pretty good at texturing g10 when I'm just messing around, but whenever I try it on a scale I'm too nervous about making mistakes and I get shakey I'm sure DOAT could make scales like that.
  

  I guess I need to see if I can increase my skill level by messing around on a bunch of G-10 cheapo knives.

  
  
  slabs of g10 are pretty cheap and if they turn out nice you can keep em, otherwise toss em and bemoan all the time you wasted

  

  that's what I do

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  joekarp

  • January 13, 2013 03:28

  Just saying; whatever you guys do, working with these materials is hazardous to your health. A good cartridge-based 3M Organic Vapor P95 would be a good investment. Your lungs are harder to replace.

  

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