Finally made some scales for my Umnumzaan.

The new scale looks great! I am sure you would find lots of buyers out there if you decided to make and sell those:thumbup:
 
Ernie1980 said:
The new scale looks great! I am sure you would find lots of buyers out there if you decided to make and sell those:thumbup:
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Twould seem that was the intention..but only three posts, turns orange and not updates for awhile..Hope he is alright.
 
Beautiful job on those ... I bet made several of us CRK junkies drool just a lil ... or was that just me ?
 
Very nice, I have no doubt you could sell more than a couple of those easily!
 
The CF, cut with the grip pattern to match, looks amazing!

With the "4 point lockup" of the Umnumzaan (lug 1, lug 2, pivot, lock) is there any concern that with the different handle materials, one scale will give more than the other and put stress on areas where there previously was none? Anyone know if, long term, CF cracks when one side is used as a blade stop?

How much fitting was required to get the lock just right, or did everything work right from the start?
 
Nice work ! CF looks amazing on it.

Like other people say those would sell sell SELL.
 
MatthewSB said:
The CF, cut with the grip pattern to match, looks amazing!

With the "4 point lockup" of the Umnumzaan (lug 1, lug 2, pivot, lock) is there any concern that with the different handle materials, one scale will give more than the other and put stress on areas where there previously was none? Anyone know if, long term, CF cracks when one side is used as a blade stop?

How much fitting was required to get the lock just right, or did everything work right from the start?
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I have a flipper that's all solid cf, and the stop pin is sandwiched between the two cf scales. I've used/flipped it countless times, and the cf looks just fine. The pin is still held in solidly.

Cf doesn't really "crack" it chips. I have a custom with contoured cf scales that I dropped on a concrete floor and all the cf did was chip a little.

Remember, that cf is made up of many layers of twill weaved carbon fabric, all held together in a resin matrix. So when a sudden force is applied to the surface (ie, dropped on concrete) only the affected layers will chip off.

It takes quite a bit of force to break cf, I've worked with it a few times. It's much stronger than you may think. It requires carbide drill bits to drill through, if that tells you anything.
 
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