g-10 handle needs checkering: possible? and who do you recommend

[raisins]

Hi everyone,

I'm new here. I hope I am posting this in somewhat of the correct place.

I just bought a kershaw speedform II. The g-10 scales are a bit too smooth for my taste.

Is it possible for the original scales to be checkered (or textured in some cool way, perhaps some larger grooves like a ZT knife or scallops like the spyderco perrin)?

If so, any recommendations on who can do this work well at a reasonable price?

Thanks for reading,

Raisins

 

[Bruce Bump]

Raisins, Welcome to BladeForums.
I'm sure there is somebody here that can do the checkering or texturing. Would you show us a picture of the knife?

Hi everyone,

I'm new here. I hope I am posting this in somewhat of the correct place.

I just bought a kershaw speedform II. The g-10 scales are a bit too smooth for my taste.

Is it possible for the original scales to be checkered (or textured in some cool way, perhaps some larger grooves like a ZT knife or scallops like the spyderco perrin)?

If so, any recommendations on who can do this work well at a reasonable price?

Thanks for reading,

Raisins

 

[AntCaps]

Get yourself a small file set and do it yourself! lol thats what id do.

 

[raisins]

Hi Bruce,

Here's a link to a site selling it (easier than uploading a pic).

http://www.thekershawstore.com/Kershaw-Speedform-II-Plain-Knife-p/k3550.htm

The handle has two angles on each side meeting at a ridge in the middle, so it is faceted.

Raisins

 

[eisman]

Not a file - checkering tools. Get them from Brownells.

The hardest part to checkering is laying out the pattern. Get a copy of "checkering and carving gunstocks" to see the proper way.

 

[raisins]

Antcaps,

I would but haven't done this type of thing, so don't trust myself to try on a knife I like!


Raisins

 

[raisins]

eisman,

I may be better off not checkering, but doing something/having done something less geometrically regular so that any deviation from the pattern just looks like it was supposed to be like that.

raisins

 

[wnease]

easiest solution for me is dimpling with a round burr in a dremel-type tool, just do it free-hand in a random pattern, I used to do this in the cab of my truck with an inverter plugged into the cigarette lighter before I could afford a generator

ps my checkering file cost 35$ so I wouldn't use it on g10 or cf