I have bigger hands and as it comes from the factory the BK9 doesn't feel quite like the BK2 does. So a easy fix for this issue is to add liners and I received a great tip here on the Becker forum to use game/dvd cases and cut the liners out of that. I saw someone green and I thought about a DVD case that I have that is orange and I thought that would be pretty cool to have orange liners. First thing though is I had to go to the used video store here and pick up another orange case. I walked out with Garfield the movie for $4.99, at least my kids will watch the movie while I destroy the case
Pics are under crappy light but you'll get the point.
The tools I used were a pen, sheet metal snips, SAK knife's awl, allen wrench, file and razor blade.
I took the handles off and traced them on the DVD case and cut them out. Forgot to take pics of the liners before putting the knife back together but here is the cases with the holes.
I matched them up with the handles and used the awl to make the holes so they would be precise.
I then screwed the handles together with the two liners in between and used the razor blade to cut off any extra liner that hangs over. Then when flush I used the file to even things out a bit and to rough up the handles a bit. I still need to do the full handles with the file, just did the liner parts at this point.
Unscrewed the handles and reassembled them back together on the knife with liners in place and here you have it.
I have a few touch ups to do but I like it, looks pretty sweet but more importantly it feels great now, much more like the BK2 in my hand. Took me about 20 minutes to do this project and if you didnt have any cases you could probably score two for under $10. Next project is tomorrow, time to get naked! I'll post better pics of the whole thing tomorrow when I'm done stripping it and touching everything up.