Another oddball Jupiter rebuild ;)

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JupiterPaladin

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Sometimes I get bored and can't help myself. I started with this Cut Co Barlow

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Tore it down
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Re profiled the main blade, removed secondary, buffed every piece, made handles from an end of circuit board or what knife people call G10
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The real question now...
Is it still considered Traditional? Is it still a Barlow?
 
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Thanks ;) I am an Electronic Engineer btw, but I know many people aren't aware that it's the same material. I'm in R&D and sometimes we have left over materials and I get creative ;)
 
Oops... of course you know! G-10 is great stuff. I'm not an engineer, but I am an Extra-class Amateur Radio licensee. I used to build a lot of my own rigs and would make enclosures out of scrap copper-clad boards. Which, now that I think of it, would be interesting as knife scales also for the patina element.

P.S. I work in the marketing department of a major manufacturer of oscilloscopes and other test and measurement equipment.
 
Barlows have bolsters extending about a third down the handle. You now have a cool looking sheepsfoot knife, just not a barlow. Is the G10 sanded smooth?
 
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In other industrial applications G10 is also used for gaskets. Nice mod though. I like the texturing on the gasket material.. I mean G10
 
I sure didn't know G10 was circuit boards! We see it textured so much on knife scales that to the non-informed, like me: "who woulda thunk it"? So was the material first used in boards and some crafty knife person like the OP breached the scale gap?
 
It's a smooth blue coated finish, akin to a powder coating, and the squares are actually copper cubes covered by a rougher coating. It's actually pretty grippy. If I scrape the squares off, the bare shiny copper will show, and the smooth blue covers a semi-jade color which I think is just natural G10.
 
Nicely done!! I like the g10 color, and great job on the pins:thumbup: Did you dome them by hand or did you use a cup burr or something similar?
 
Nice 👍
But now you need to take the other blade and turn it into a little sheep's foot whittled.
 
Indeed I did save the secondary blade, it's mating backspring, and the center divider liner. I was considering using just the blade and forging some new liners and maybe even a new backspring freehand. I also have a pen blade from a Bullet jack-knife that I reduced to a single layer about a month ago.
 
Ernie - I have no idea what a cup burr or pin spinner looks like. I used pins that were domed on one side then peened the bottom side with a custom made punch that I made from a scrap motor shaft and a belt sander :) I have very limited tools so mostly I freehand with a Dremel!
 
Nicely done. I don't think it's a Barlow anymore, but it has its own character. I like it.
 
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