Custom scales for izula and izula II

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dtrap

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Wanted a little more bulk and texture so I made up a few sets out of G10. They feel amazing and completely change the feel of the knife. Also added a bit of glow on the 2 for around camp at night. What do you guys think of my first attempts at handles?
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After I added the glow and made a kydex lined leather sheath for it
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Those are sweet!!! Great thinking.

Did you find the G10 hard to work with? How did you 'work' it? What thickness did you use?

What/How did you do the 'GLOW' mod? Details please!!!
 
Yes the G10 was somewhat hard to work with. The G10 was 1/4 inch to start out with. It is super hard to cut but sands pretty well. I went through a few scroll saw blades before i gave up and used a diamond saw blade to cut them as close as possible. It make a lot of dust which is hazordus to inhale so a respirator is a necessity. I also used a shop vac near the cutting edge to help pick up the dust while I was cutting it. Once it was pretty close to shape I used my belt sander with 120 grit to takes it all the way to the final shape. I taped the tang and made sure to not scratch the finish on the steel. Then I took the tape off and then hand sanded it with 120 to get perfectly even woth the knife. I then used my drill press with a small drum sander on it to do the contours. Then went over all of it with 160 to even out everything. Last I drilled the holes to fill in with epoxy that I mixed glow powder into. After the epoxy dried I sanded back over all of it once more to remove any epoxy that got outside the holes. It was a learning experience and having the right power tools makes it quite a bit easier.
 
Nice, I have found a small cutting wheel on a dremel works pretty good to cut the g10. Grinding bits on a dremel work amazing for contours n such.
 
A small cutting wheel would probably work fine on thinner stuff but the G10 I used wad 1/4 inch thick so I probably would have broke quite a few trying to cut it. I actually burned up a dremell trying to do heavy cutting tasks with it to often
 
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