I made it mine ! It’s a Larrin 501 but I modded it to my likin.

[Lesknife]

As the title says I made it mine. I absolutely love this knife but when my fingers get a bit wet it was as slippery as a bar of soap. Some of ya’ll might remember three years ago I had a bad slip and dropped my little 55 and nearly got the artery in my leg. I bled li a stuck hog and had to go to the ER. So I don’t like slippery knife handles.

I am off today taking some PTO for a dr appointment this morning and now some free time to do what I wanna do so I got my Larrin 501 hog tied , got out my dremel tool and went to work making the handle less slippery. I call it beaver knod finish. Whatda think ?

 

[Midnight Rider]

Turned out nice, IMO. How is the grip now?

 

[Lesknife]

Turned out nice,IMO. How is the grip now?

It’s a lot better to get a holt of it, it’s not rough but has good traction so it doesn’t slip.

Its similar to the scalloped handle on the limited editions Buck has done more recently. Just not as deep cause the handle scales on the 501 are thinner so I kept the grind shallow.

 

[MT_Pokt]

Looks good!

 

[GPyro]

Nice job Les!


I would have hesitated to do that, but I like your result.
And what good is a nice knife your hesitant to use for some reason?
And that's a very sharp knife.

Problem solved.

 

[mbkr]

Well done

 

[FranklinG]

That looks absolutely fantastic! Knocked it out of the park with that one.

 

[bucksway]

I like it! I hate slippery knives too.

 

[Slice-and-dice]

There is not a user knife I personally don't modify in some way, to make it more useful/ pleasing. I guess I do make exceptions for collectable blades.

With respect to Buck knives, I always lightly sand any wooden scales to either even them out, or in some cases, make them less slippery. I especially like to take the shine off of any dymondwood or dymalux as its way too slippery (although looks so nice). On folders I also lightly sand/dremel the back of the blade at the pivot to dull it a bit- when you fiddle with a knife all day, anything sharp becomes a hotpoint and I like all metal edges smooth to the touch. Even the frame of the blade opening I like to smooth down both sides just a little. Sometimes I need to tap the bolsters to tighten up a slight wobble in the blade. Then when everything is perfect, it becomes an EDC.