Better grip on titanium?

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camreye

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I just bought a new spyderco techno and I love nearly everything about it except for the super slick titanium handles. Does anyone know of anything I can do to the titanium to get better grip?
 
Grip tape?

Perhaps you could send it to a waterjet guy and get him to texture it?

or maybe DIY with a checkering file?
 
Have it sand blasted with a course media. That would change the appearance (color/texture) a lot though.
 
I have done a shot peen (sand blast with tiny steel balls), followed by a blast with aluminum oxide. This was for a dimpled aggressive grip. The color changed to a darker gray, as stated above.
 
Electric engraving pencil.
You can do very good stippling with these, with practice.
 
Thanks for the suggestions guys. I'm not really a hands on guy, but I'm willing to try. Which one do you guys think will be the easiest for me to do?
 
camreye said:
I just bought a new spyderco techno and I love nearly everything about it except for the super slick titanium handles. Does anyone know of anything I can do to the titanium to get better grip?
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Google something called Talon Grips, they're for firearms, but I put them on my metal handled knives. they're only $4 and I buy the generic rubberized sheet.
 
camreye said:
Thanks for the suggestions guys. I'm not really a hands on guy, but I'm willing to try. Which one do you guys think will be the easiest for me to do?
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Can't remember where I saw the post but one guy removed his Techno clip and took a small dia. piece of heat shrink tubing and threaded it on to his clip at the tip contacting the scale, and used a heat gun/hair dryer to shrink it and re-installed the clip.

I remember he used a blue piece to match the G10 back-spacer...looked good and the rubbery texture of the HS tubing created a better purchase on the pocket fabric. Seemed like a good idea and I've been mulling it over for mine since I saw his post.

Also, just removing the wire clip and bending it slightly to create more pressure helps somewhat as well.
 
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