BK15 handle options

panzertroop · May 23, 2012

Any good after market micarta or wood grips for the new minis? I am out of the loop on these but picked up a 15 and wanted some handle options.

thanks!

CamH_16 · May 23, 2012

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Love micarta and I always encourage people to make some themselves. If not, saints cuterly or wait awhile for the Ka-bar ones...I'd offer to make you some but I dont have the right membership and frankly my stuff is horrible haha.

Awesom-o-4000 · May 23, 2012

Im going to second Cam_H16 on the micarta. Try and make some yourself, you will laugh and you will cry, you mighteven hrt yourself a little bit. but in the end you will have a unique knife that you can call your own

CCMI · May 23, 2012

saintcutlery sells micarta for the new BK Shorts on fleabay. I had to sand mine a little to fit, but I like them a lot as they are slightly beefier in hand than the zytel scales. Still fits the stock sheath too.

panzertroop · May 23, 2012

Thanks CCMI, I was looking at those. They look awesome for the price.

cjr7 · May 23, 2012

CCMI said:
saintcutlery sells micarta for the new BK Shorts on fleabay...

So that is where they come from. Thanks. I saw someone post (maybe it was you) a pic of these the other day. I think they look awesome.

tomsch · May 23, 2012

The saints do feel better in the hand than the stock grips for sure. Mine still manage to fit in my Azwelke kydex which is a bonus!

Wolf_1989 · May 23, 2012

Once I swapped out the black zytel for the brown, the brown grew on me. I'm leaving that alone for now.

What would be groovy is if KaBar started making the standard zytel handles in all sorts of far out colors.

tjswarbrick · May 23, 2012

TommyTheWho for wood. I don't have 'em yet, but they look awesome.

UCPOPO · May 23, 2012

Well, theres G10:

Tommythewho wood:

Micarta:

or just stipple the the factory grips, which actually feels the best to me:

ralphtt · May 23, 2012

Tommythewho wood:

Just curious. What kind of wood is that?

Tommythewho · May 23, 2012

ralphtt said:
Tommythewho wood:

Just curious. What kind of wood is that?

That wood is Walnut. Also a quick disclaimer. I sdold that set as "seconds" for half price. That is why the fit isn't perfect. Didn't expect to see pics of them on here

C_Tanner · May 23, 2012

That 17 is growing on me. I really like the G10, though maybe not the contours. I wish more custom guys would start making G10 scales. Tommys stuff is the shizznit for wood.

Tommythewho · May 23, 2012

Now this is more like it

ralphtt · May 24, 2012

Nice work. What wood are those?

tjswarbrick · May 24, 2012

ralphtt said:
Nice work. What wood are those?

The thread he created on 'em says they're Ipe.

CShepherd · May 25, 2012

A wood burner and about 10 minutes and voila, I'm in love again. Just enough grippiness without being overly aggressive.

Charlie

CCMI · May 25, 2012

Wow, very nicely done Cshepherd.

That turned out really cool and looks like it'd give a good grip.

oXide · May 25, 2012

Nice, but do you have a thing for the #5?

Anyhow, really nice, looks nice and grippy!

CShepherd · May 25, 2012

oXide said:
Nice, but do you have a thing for the #5?

Anyhow, really nice, looks nice and grippy!

Actually it would be closer to "s" since my last name is Shepherd.

I played around with different patterns including stripes and such on the inside of the scales and found that the "s" was the easiest for me to keep looking decent and it gave a good grip as well so I went for it. I've even done one more custom set of "s" scales for a coworker so I guess I'm a trendsetter. lol

Charlie