BK7 Scales. What are these and where do I get them

[BePrepared]

Can someone point me at a place that sells them?

 

[Bladite]

i think ESEE sells them...

oh, you mean the ones at the top? sorry, 15 years too late. Camillus. no longer in production.

 

[BePrepared]

well don't that just suck

 

[Chameleonbear]

Like a $3 hooker!

 

[FAL'ER]

They are real hard to find. I've only seen 3 sets for sale in the last year. The two I bought and one of those two that I sold.

 

[wasatchdan]

I've been on the lookout for a set of these myself. I will have some one day. Oh yes, I sure will.

 

[Wolf_1989]

They don't look difficult to make.

 

[Nsvens89]

They don't look difficult to make.

thats what I was thinking, Maybe making a hybrid between the new micarta and that! Same style as that but with a little more of a palm swell. Now that would be cool!

 

[FAL'ER]

saint cutlery was making some similiar ones.

 

[BePrepared]

They don't look difficult to make.

for me, essentially the same as impossible

 

[crimsonfalcon07]

The texturing looks like it might take some doing though. Making scales is a fun project though, and those, aside from the texturing, are pretty basic.

 

[FAL'ER]

It's quite a bit of work, not hard work but time consuming and at times frustrating. I've done between 20 and 30 sets of scales for these knives and I still am learning on every set. Sometimes I even make the same mistakes over and over again. For example yesterday I had a new set of green/orange linen micarta I had made up and went through all the milling operations and thought I was basically done except trimming off all the extra material and shaping them up, when I realized I made them both for the left hand side of the knife, yet drilled all the holes in the same place on both pieces. Sorry Capt.

 

[edctac]

It does take some time. But I find that I get so focused that time flies, and I really enjoy seeing it take shape and I'm proud of the finished product.

 

[Guyon]

They're real nice. But honestly, the Ka-Bar micarta is better.

 

[FAL'ER]

Yes, they look cool and that's it. Ka Bar micarta is way better.


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