Hand-shaped micarta scales on a chopper?

Jaxx said:
Yeah, 220 is where I started, but much smaller handle on those MS-e's :D ...Need to stock back up on coarser grits. :)

I do want to mention that for a little while there, I thought I screwed up. 320 & 400, the handle got slicker, easy to fumble. After round 1 with 600, I felt the grippiness return, and it trended back upward from there. Just my own experience on the MS-e handle job. :)
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I remember reading that, and I think I know what you mean as I have some blades with polished g10 that have that almost tacky feel to them.

On mine right now, the micarta has sort of a soft worn denim (or canvas :D) feel to it. I will probably use them like this a little bit before I do much else. Wish I had some factory hand-shaped to compare it to, I wonder how far they take it.
 
I love the hand shaped scales. Nice and grippy. When dry. Get em a bit wet tho, and they can feel a little greasy and slippery. Especially G10.
 
I love hand shaped black micarta. For a while every blade I ordered, I would specify hand shaped black micarta with red liners.........but, they stopped that with OP2W.
 
I don't have a lot (any?) experience with hand shaped. But of all the mods I'd be willing to try on my knives, getting rid of the texturing on one of my Busse-kin is at the bottom of my list. I love the texturing of the Busse-kin knives. All of them, so far. I have a strong dislike for non-textured grips anymore. Unless the are very fine wood.
 
RobStanley said:
I love the hand shaped scales. Nice and grippy. When dry. Get em a bit wet tho, and they can feel a little greasy and slippery. Especially G10.
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I am a little worried about this, I'll have to do some testing and see how it goes. Lately it's been hitting the 90's a lot with anywhere from 60-90% humidity. It won't take long to learn how it handles when everything is drenched with sweat.


Georgecatl said:
I love hand shaped black micarta. For a while every blade I ordered, I would specify hand shaped black micarta with red liners.........but, they stopped that with OP2W.
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I've seen that combo come up before and it's awesome, great taste! I've actually thought about modding my JMD to add red liners under the black micarta. I wouldn't want to hand sand that one unless I added liners since the scales are already on the thin side.


rockspyder said:
I don't have a lot (any?) experience with hand shaped. But of all the mods I'd be willing to try on my knives, getting rid of the texturing on one of my Busse-kin is at the bottom of my list. I love the texturing of the Busse-kin knives. All of them, so far. I have a strong dislike for non-textured grips anymore. Unless the are very fine wood.
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I actually had no interest either until recently. Always thought the machined texturing was very well done, (still do really,) but then I saw Jaxx's MSE thread and started looking into it more and ultimately had to try it. Since I'd already done a bunch of other mods on the DT, I thought it was a good candidate for this.

I don't plan to do any others right away, I want to see how it works for the DT in use first. I figure having the smooth grips on a large blade will magnify the pros and cons either way.


Also, thanks again to all that replied!
 
This is still a work in progress (there's still some imperfections I got impatient and skipped over), but I decided to take the polish up a couple notches. This is after a total of 60, 150, 320, and 600 grit sanding, then rubbed down with a little oil and lightly buffed:

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I didn't have any issues with the very coarse initial finish in use, but I wanted to see what it would be like at a higher polish. Very comfy with a worn denim-like feel before, but now they have that different type of "tackiness" to them and really look nice.
 
inkynate said:
This is still a work in progress (there's still some imperfections I got impatient and skipped over), but I decided to take the polish up a couple notches. This is after a total of 60, 150, 320, and 600 grit sanding, then rubbed down with a little oil and lightly buffed:

2ln8r48.jpg


1zl3pyx.jpg


I didn't have any issues with the very coarse initial finish in use, but I wanted to see what it would be like at a higher polish. Very comfy with a worn denim-like feel before, but now they have that different type of "tackiness" to them and really look nice.
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Looks great! :thumbup::thumbup:
 
That thing looks great, you achieved a very professional look. If only the factory hand shaped scales and smooth bolts were available as an option all the time.
 
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