Anyone ever re-handle an SAK?

BarberFobic1992

BarberFobic1992

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I have been thinking about putting some wood scales on a vic farmer, but I don't know if this can be done without ruining the knife. Does anyone offer this as a service? I like the functionality of an SAK but the look of it seems out of place in the wilderness to me. Pics would be good too, if anyone else has ever done this.
 
I do them, I really hate cellidor.

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It's not hard but you absolutely must own a dremel. The way I find easiest is to get a slab of material, put lipstick or something similar on the pins of the sak and press it down onto the slab. then just drill the holes where the lipstick is and epoxy it on. After it dries use the dremmel to cut it flush the the liners and shape it.
 
I've re handled a Recruit, and a wenger esquire in oak, not to hard, just takes a little patience :)
 
I rehandled an old SAK Champion after I messed the scales up with deet. Pretty easy to do and lends a personal touch to your blade.
 
I've seen some beauts done! Scibeer over at SOSAK and the Multitool dot org forum has done some great work, he's even done alox knives with HAIII on Farmers.
 
do you have access to some power tools, a friend that is a wood worker perhaps? this project is not too hard, if you have a dremel and a belt sander it will very quickly. if you have any type of sander it can also be done.

pry off the plastic scales, pick out the wood you want, there are a huge number of exotic woods available, look them over, you might find something that you really like.

i took each handle slab, used them to mark the wood slabs and cut out the wooden slabs, i used the sander to shape the slabs some, i used oak to rehandle a GAK. once you have the shape you want, then mark the protrusions with a grease pencil, and transfer to the handle slabs, make cutouts with your dremel, then epoxy the slabs onto the knife, i do this with the blades open, i finish sanding and staining the wood, and you are done. takes a couple of days use long setting epoxy as it tends to be stronger rather than the 5 minute stuff.

here is a guy that has some great looking handles, check out the link to his site:

http://webspace.ship.edu/mbyoh/Yohsak.html

i have some jigged bone i want to try next, if i ever get the time.

have fun

alex
 
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I think on the SOSAK site you can pick up wood that is pre cut to the size of your knife. I rehandled a Climber with some cocobolo pen blanks I had. The scales ended up being pretty fat on mine. It's not super hard to do it yourself or you can have someone do it for you.
 
Just curious,are you going to remove the alox handles that are on the farmer or just attach the new handles on top?I have seen people replace handles on the plastic handled knives but never one with alox.sounds cool.
 
You will likely need some kind of liner for the Alox knives if you are going to put wood handles on them.
 
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