110 hand radius vs full radius?

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I see on Joe's 110 cheat sheet, eighth version, he mentions different handle types: hand radius, hand radius but not in thumb depression area, full radius, and apparently no radius.

Can anyone explain the differences? Or better yet post a pic?
 
A picture is worth a thousand words. Thank you Preston!
We started getting complaints that the squared off edges of the 110 were wearing out sheaths too fast so we started redesigning our tooling to add the radius.
In the meantime, we added the radius by hand but you can't economically hand radius inside the thumb depression area so we left that part alone.
 
the hand radisus is a tighter curve then the full radisus..
once you hold all 3 in your hands you will see it so well
untell then it is a hard thing to put in a picture
 
Heh, didn't know others had had that problem! Yeeeeeears ago I dropped my ca. 1972 110 on a wood floor in its sheath. It cut the flap of the sheath basically clear through! Dyed the cut with a little boot polish and never thought about it until today...still have both.
 
Joe Houser said:
In the meantime, we added the radius by hand but you can't economically hand radius inside the thumb depression area so we left that part alone.
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But you can power radius that area...It requires a quarter-round ball-bearing Carbide counter rounding router bit, a router, a router table, leather gloves, thick coat, safety glasses, and cajones the size of cantaloupes... :eek:

I've done one Titanium, one 304 stainless, two brass, and several [practice] aluminum liners/bolsters this way...I've also done the outside bevel on the titanium & stainless bolster/liner using a 45* Carbide bit... :D

Here'a a pic showing how it is done... ;)

(Heh...DarrylS isn't convinced...)

You just have to be careful to draw into the direction of cut... :p
 
chickentrax said:
It requires a quarter-round ball-bearing Carbide counter rounding router bit, a router, a router table, leather gloves, thick coat, safety glasses, and cajones the size of cantaloupes... :eek:
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Trax, did you mention a great HMO plan?;) :D ;). Preston
 
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