Do any of you sand down your scales?

I Sanded my scales and I'm not disappointed. Totally tore up a pair of jeans I have. I simply used fine grit. Worked out splendid for me
 
shizuko said:
I Sanded my scales and I'm not disappointed. Totally tore up a pair of jeans I have. I simply used fine grit. Worked out splendid for me
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Thanks shizuko, do the scales look any different now that you have taken them down a bit.
 
Looks? Not at all. The only difference is now I can pull it out of my pocket without having to put my underwear back on.
 
shizuko said:
Looks? Not at all. The only difference is now I can pull it out of my pocket without having to put my underwear back on.
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Ha Ya I know what your saying believe me. What I meant about the looks is that I don't want to wreck the scale. A couple of people had mentioned needing to use oil on it after sanding it to bring back the colour but I don't want to take it down that much. I am just looking to speed up the process a little. My CQC7 was like a cheese grader at the beginning but after destroying about 3 or 4 pairs of jeans it finally got to the point where I could think about clipping it into something that I didn't care about destroying. I would rather skip that break in period if I could.
 
It doesn't take much to knock down the grabbiness. A few swipes with 300 grit will do the trick and leave plenty of texture still. You don't need oil to bring back the color. All it is is dust from sanding in the texture making it look whitish. You can accomplish the same thing by running it under the water faucet and rinsing the dust off.
 
DRK said:
Well if sanding isn't the way then I may just take the scale off and rub it aggressively against some denim to see if I can help speed up the process, I will figure out something.
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I do just this, but use an old piece of carpet. It takes a long time to notice a difference, but really smooths the scales out nicely without removing any of the pattern.

They're still grippy afterwards, but they don't feel like 40 grit sandpaper.
 
MatthewSB said:
I do just this, but use an old piece of carpet. It takes a long time to notice a difference, but really smooths the scales out nicely without removing any of the pattern.

They're still grippy afterwards, but they don't feel like 40 grit sandpaper.
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Old Blue Jeans are abrasive, and I alway have one old pair in the rag bin. They work great for polishing round surfaces, Likexwhen you are trying to remove water sport from glass. Would assume they would take some of the sharp points out of G-10.
 
Why not just bend the clip out a hair? Then you can bend it back if needed later after the G10 wears down a bit.

The issue is grippiness between the scale and the clip, correct? So increase the distance between the two and it will accomplish the same thing.

On many of my knives I bend gone clip out just enough so I can see a slight bit of daylight and no more grabbing the pants. Easily reversible later if desired, and the scales are still mint.

That's what I've done with that issue. Personally, after the scales wear down a bit I kinda miss the grippiness.
 
I dislike a non-contacting clip, they tend to "buzz" and otherwise make the knife feel "loose". Today I received a Jungle Commander and must say the "grippyness" is really cool. But I can tell my pockets would cease to be pockets if I use it as it is.
 
Officer's Match said:
I dislike a non-contacting clip, they tend to "buzz" and otherwise make the knife feel "loose". Today I received a Jungle Commander and must say the "grippyness" is really cool. But I can tell my pockets would cease to be pockets if I use it as it is.
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This, I hate the "buzz".

Also, I hate losing a $180 knife because the clip didn't grip it tightly enough.
 
Interesting topic...is this only an issue for knives that are opened by waving? Would think the flipper or other wave mechanism catching on the jeans would be more of an issue than the handle texture. I have a Krudo snag folder where this is a problem, but the handles themselves are completely smooth. Never had an issue with G10...
 
For me it is the combination of a really tight clip and really course G10. I really don't wave my knifes very often so for me, its just the pressure of the clip sandwiching the G10 against my pants that rips things to shreds. If I waved the knife I think that would just accelerate the process.
 
^ agree, very easy to over-sand. Would think bending/re-profiling the clip would be a better solution than sanding the G10,but that's just my opinion...
 
rayster357 said:
^^That's Funny! I used a small piece of 120 grit sandpaper for reducing the grip of the G10 under the radiused portion of the pocketclip as mentioned by gooeytek. I just lift the pocketclip a little (still installed on handle) and slip the piece of sandpaper between the pocketclip and G10. Then release the pocketclip letting it clip the piece of sandpaper with it's own degree of pressure against the G10 withe the grit side facing the G10. Then grab that piece of sandpaper and pulllit through/out of between the pocketclip and G10. A pull of about 1" can remove quite a bit of material so go a little bit at a time and test the results. The other thing would be to bend the pocketclip and thus reducing it's grip without having to sandpaper at all.
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I used this tip to gently soften the "points" just below the clip (where it contacts the G10) on my Gypsy Jack and viola, perfect pocket retention without "ripage". Super easy to do, thanks for a great tip. But not the clip bending part, I like a solid contact.
 
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