Benchmade JuJu Snody. so what do you know???

Chiro... I can understand where you're coming from. Here a few pics that may give you a closer look.

DSC00004.jpg


DSC00005.jpg


Hope this helps in someway... Even if it helps show my camera skills suck LOL
 
I've wrapped several knives and the handle configuration of the JuJu makes it a little more difficult to wrap. The actual wrap does not look bad at all in person. What the pictures do not show you is that the handle is double diamond wrapped. It appears that they did the traditional style Japanese diamond wrap on the entire handle then turned it over and started from the oposite direction and wrapped the entire handle again using the traditional method. It is double wrapped. The overlapping of the diamond knots is what makes the wrap appear poor in the pictures.
 
Chiro75 said:
Just went and looked at Knifecenter to get an idea of the price and I spent a few minutes looking at the preorder items. That Gravitator folder sure looks pretty damn familiar! Anyone know the story of that knife? If I had a bigger ego I'd think Benchmade has seen my avatar at some point!
Click to expand...
The gravitator is based on one of Mike Snody's custom knives. He also did this knife, and the 420/220 resistor. I feel like I skipped one.

And that wrap looks like shoelace :O
 
The gravitator is based on one of Mike Snody's custom knives.
Click to expand...
That's what I thought, but I was hoping for a lawsuit! :rolleyes: :D
That material on the wrap probably is shoelace material or something like it. I've done some wraps with shoelace material and they look nice, actually. Real silk would obviously be nicer, but then you're talking serious money! Also the shoelace type synthetic stuff doesnt' fuzz like organic material, so on a real using knife it probably is better. Well, for what they're charging, I say get the knife, strip the cord, throw the monkey skull away, rewrap it properly and then send it to Eric (Normark) for a new sheath and you're in business! Although, then you could afford something like one of Mike Burch's sweet Japanese knives....
 
Ascoe said:
The gravitator is based on one of Mike Snody's custom knives. He also did this knife, and the 420/220 resistor. I feel like I skipped one.

:O
Click to expand...

The 425 is the production version of Snody's "Hybrid" model...

At least that is what it looks like from his webpage.

I think the one you skipped is the 210 :)
 
The JuJu has a right hand proper chisel grind. Most of Snody's knives are ground for right handers.
 
I bought one of the limited editions a few weeks ago. This is my first chisel ground knife. It was sharp, but not scary sharp out of the box. It took me a little while to figure out how to sharpen this knife properly with my Edge Pro as I had never sharpened a chisel grind before. The fit and finish is good and the wrap looks fine to me. The knife only being ground on one side looks a little odd, but I knew this before I bought it. Mine will probably be regulated to general utility work or occasional IWB carry. I would love to have a custom version that is ground on both sides.
 
I wonder how hard it would be to rewrap the with paracord?Im thinking getting the fake red ray skin off will be tough.
 
Hi

Stripped off my handle wrap, it wasn't too hard. Getting the remaining gunk off the handle was the hardest part.

I'm going to rehandle the knife with some micarta or G10 slabs and then make a kydex sheath for it. A man's got to start some where in his knife making career, starting with a kick-ass knife I figure is a good way to go.

Take care,
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top