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Hey guys, I realize there's a compilation thread for these, but I didn't want these small mods to get overlooked amongst the sea of amazing work.
What I did was sand down the G10 scale completely flush with the steel liner. I did this mainly for my personal preference for a tighter fit & finish. This left the very toothy lockbar exposed even more pronoucedly. I never liked the agressive jimping on the lockbar. It always hurt my girlish thumbs on a one-handed close (even bit on a 2-handed close). So, I sanded the jimping teeth down to about a quarter of their original height. Right now the lockbar side protrudes about 1.5 mm further than the G10 side. I took a straight-on pic below, so you can see that the differential is minimal, but it still makes it easier to close. With the teeth smoothed down considerably, and the knife is far more comfortable to grip as well as close. I can sit & flip it endlessly without getting a sore thumb, and closing can still be done with gloves (and a wet knife) despite the smoothed surface.
The aforementioned is what I consider to be a huge functional improvement, especially since the 0560 is my EDC. While the super-toothy lockbar jimping & unaligned scale/liner would not have bugged me with occasional use, it really started to grate on me as I EDC'd the knife. The next mod I made was getting rid of the ZT logo on the clip, and bringing it to a satin/almost mirror finish instead of the bead-blasted original finish. Getting the logo imprint to be invisible took a ton of sanding, much more than I anticipated. This will be the last mod I make, since I feel like I clinched perfection for my personal taste in this knife. Thanks for checking it out.
What I did was sand down the G10 scale completely flush with the steel liner. I did this mainly for my personal preference for a tighter fit & finish. This left the very toothy lockbar exposed even more pronoucedly. I never liked the agressive jimping on the lockbar. It always hurt my girlish thumbs on a one-handed close (even bit on a 2-handed close). So, I sanded the jimping teeth down to about a quarter of their original height. Right now the lockbar side protrudes about 1.5 mm further than the G10 side. I took a straight-on pic below, so you can see that the differential is minimal, but it still makes it easier to close. With the teeth smoothed down considerably, and the knife is far more comfortable to grip as well as close. I can sit & flip it endlessly without getting a sore thumb, and closing can still be done with gloves (and a wet knife) despite the smoothed surface.
The aforementioned is what I consider to be a huge functional improvement, especially since the 0560 is my EDC. While the super-toothy lockbar jimping & unaligned scale/liner would not have bugged me with occasional use, it really started to grate on me as I EDC'd the knife. The next mod I made was getting rid of the ZT logo on the clip, and bringing it to a satin/almost mirror finish instead of the bead-blasted original finish. Getting the logo imprint to be invisible took a ton of sanding, much more than I anticipated. This will be the last mod I make, since I feel like I clinched perfection for my personal taste in this knife. Thanks for checking it out.
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