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knifejunkie1928

knifejunkie1928

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so I had an idea for that extra set of tweener handles they all come with.

Now I'm not saying it was a good idea but still, its something I haven't seen before.

with out further ado, I give you skeletonized handles for the skeletonized blade!

For the ultralights that just can't stand that extra handle weight holding them down. haha

I have no idea why I thought about trying this, but it just hit me yesterday and I had to try it out.

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Nice! I'm not going to do it but it's fun to see that it's been done.

And with a saber no less.
 
This....is where innovation happens. Sweet - though I doubt I'll do something similar ;). I'm not really a weight weenie, anyway. If I were, I'd need to shave off about 40 lbs. of myself before worrying about the weight of my backcountry cutlery :).
 
granitestateofmind said:
I'm not really a weight weenie, anyway. If I were, I'd need to shave off about 40 lbs. of myself before worrying about the weight of my backcountry cutlery :).
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No need to go there and turn this thread all personal and make some of us self-conscious . ;)
 
Pretty cool. FA'LER did one like that many moons ago out of wood on the full size scales.
 
I love seeing people get creative and try new things. For that I thank you. However, I cannot imagine that it reduced the weight much nor can I imagine it being any more comfortable in hand. It came with two sets of scales so there was no harm in trying it out. :thumbup:
 
aaahaha! That's cool!
How did you do it?

If you want to save more weight, put those scales on a production FFG BK16 instead - higher grind means less weight. ;)
 
daizee said:
aaahaha! That's cool!
How did you do it?
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Well it was a bit tricky. I first screwed on one of the scales to the knife and drilled a hole in the center of the skeletonized holes.

Then I took it to the scroll saw and fed the blade through the hole and used the blade as the template.

It got tricky when I found out the scroll saw was moving so fast that it really wasn't cutting, it was melting through it.

So even when I went around the whole thing with the saw, it would reseal itself back together.

I thought I would still be able to pop it out, but nope! That sucker held in!

I got it to work by getting the speed on the saw as low as it would allow to still cut/melt through it. Annnnnd an ungodly amount of WD-40 to lube it up and cool it down.

Then I took that scale off and put the other one on and repeated the process.

After that it took a bunch of sanding and file work to smooth everything out.
 
tbhride said:
Well... its interesting lol! Maybe radius the cutouts on the inside to help with the hot spots a bit.
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I think that really will help with the hot spots.

however, I don't really plan on finding that out for sure.

these scales are probably never going to be used. haha

just a fun project. I am in no way that worried about the weight. :D
 
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