Home made scales

[Paden87]

So I got bored today and made some micarta I'm going to use on my 11. It has a nice wood grain to it.

And here's the 11 its goin on

now I just need to find time to cut them out

 

[mrn8]

Nice! What material did you make the micarta out of?

 

[Paden87]

A old od green canvas millitary over shirt

 

[Battle Creek Knives]

sweet, cant wait to see the results...

which brings me to this, the 11 is one of my all time favorite beckers, I can't answer as to why because I really don't care for funky grooved shaped handles but the 11 I like...

but I've said I was going to do this before and I think I may do it now, I want to make a metal insert for the bottle opener.. I have yet to see a rehandle job done that still looks 'unfinished' because of that..

you should maybe cut out a piece of that micarta or something to stuff in that opening if it bothers you as much as it does me...

 

[Paden87]

I love the bottle opener too much to fill/cover it up. But I'll make a pice for it and post the pics so u can see it

 

[Battle Creek Knives]

so you're going to leave it completely exposed and functional?? look forward to the results

 

[Paden87]

Here they are they don't look too hot but they feel great

 

[sash]

Are those cut down drywall screws, or are the scales through bolted?

 

[Paden87]

Not dry wall screws. There machine screws in these weird nut things I have no idea what they are called

 

[Paden87]

 

[B.Mauser]

Called a Chicago screw.

 

[K9-Handler]

They're called Chicago screws or binder screws.

 

[Paden87]

Yea that's them. I had some laying around and they fit perfect

 

[daizee]

nice going, Paden.
If you want them to look great too, I recommend the following:

1) take them off the knife and bolt them to each other. Then sand the fronts of the scales until they match one another.
2) round the corners substantially with a file or something, then sand with medium-grit sandpaper to remove the file marks.
3) blend that rounding toward the middle of the flats if you want to see more texture.
4) sand up to 180 at a minimum, but probably up to 360 or so - suddenly they'll look 'done' and you'll be shocked at the difference

-Daizee

 

[Paden87]

Ok sounds good I'll try that. There still not finished I have yet to open them up where the bottle opener is and a little shaping.

 

[Nsvens89]

Looking good so far man, I am digging the color.

 

[Crewdawg]

I'm jealous! Gonna have to try that when I get home this fall. :thumbup:

NOW how do you open your Sammys (or Yuengling, or...)?

 

[Tylerxp]

Man that's cool. I've been thinking about making a set for a while. Now I think I'm up for it. Thanks for the post.

 

[Paden87]

I will be cutting out the bottle opener when I have time. For now I'm using my la rue tactical bottle opener for my cold bevrages