G10 handles

[kym]

I have a Benchmade Nimravus with G10 handles. Anyone have information one the G10 material?

 

[Bkultra]

G10: An extremely durable makeup of layers of fiberglass soaked in resin, then highly compressed and baked. Impervious to moisture or liquid and physically stable under climate change. Most commonly black, but is available in various colors, too.

Taken from -
http://www.benchmade.com/about_knives/materials.asp

Another link on handle material

http://www.knifecenter.com/knifehandlematerials.html

 

[knarfeng]

Howdy kym,
Here is a short synopsis of G10. What it is. Why it is called G10. Why G10 varies from knife maker to knife maker as far as surface roughness.

http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showpost.php?p=5149227&postcount=10


This ought to bring you up to speed.
Frank R

 

[slayergut]

Basically its a really great,tough and grippy material if textured correctly,plus it can look real nice sometimes.

 

[kym]

Wow thats a lot of information. Thanks. Being on a Benchmade I thought it should be pretty durable.

 

[Grampa]

Basically micarta and G10 are the same stuff - micarta uses a cloth fabric or paper base, and G10 uses a fiberglass cloth base. All use a similar resin, and are made by different manufacturers - in fact, you can pretty much make your own.

Formica (as in the stuff on your kitchen counter) is another reformulation - the Formica name comes from "FORmerly MICArta" - or so I've heard.

Very tough stuff, whatever variant you go with.

 

[Stainz]

They remind me of early electronic circuit board materials - Bakelite (Micarta) and glass-epoxy (G10) - except no holes. Hmmm, a use for my old circuit boards??

Stainz

 

[Munky88]

Fiberglass slivers are hell and a half. But go for it just to show the world how geeky you are.