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- Dec 21, 2000
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Wasn't hard to do at all guys, and it feels sooooooo sweet! Through all of this while handleing all the parts and taking them apart and putting them back together again and again. I noticed that after I replaced the G-10 with carbon how light the knife had become. That is until I put the clip back on. Once I did this it picked up some weight again. However, I noticed the weight (never noticed when it had G-10 on it) was blade forward now. Am I just imagining this? If not, NICE SURPRISE!!
It was easy the only pain was assembly dissasembly etc. etc. You have to do this several times once you have the scales rough cut and drilled. All I did was take the original handle scales and clamp them down to the carbon stock. I then took the appropritae drill bits and drilled each hole accordingly. A word of note when I first tride this a few months back I just had spring clamps keeping everything together. THEY ARE INADEQUATE FOR THIS TYPE OF WORK!! I ruined 30 bucks worth of carbon stock because when you start drilling the bits rub against the stock vibrating them and moving them out of allinment!
So if you do this use the miniature c-clamps. After I had all the holes drilled I put everything back together again and used my Wilton to gring the slabs down to the liners. You could use a file if no type of sander is available to you. I then used sandpaper that comes in a roll and did the shoeshine method to contoor all the edges that were made sharp by the grinding. This is a VERRY basic overview if you have any questions shoot me an E-mail.
All in all she turnrd out real nice!
It was easy the only pain was assembly dissasembly etc. etc. You have to do this several times once you have the scales rough cut and drilled. All I did was take the original handle scales and clamp them down to the carbon stock. I then took the appropritae drill bits and drilled each hole accordingly. A word of note when I first tride this a few months back I just had spring clamps keeping everything together. THEY ARE INADEQUATE FOR THIS TYPE OF WORK!! I ruined 30 bucks worth of carbon stock because when you start drilling the bits rub against the stock vibrating them and moving them out of allinment!
So if you do this use the miniature c-clamps. After I had all the holes drilled I put everything back together again and used my Wilton to gring the slabs down to the liners. You could use a file if no type of sander is available to you. I then used sandpaper that comes in a roll and did the shoeshine method to contoor all the edges that were made sharp by the grinding. This is a VERRY basic overview if you have any questions shoot me an E-mail.All in all she turnrd out real nice!
