I some help/your opinions on a project

Flatlander1963

Flatlander1963

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Dave inspired me to try a inlay swap on one of my 110s. But I'm having a hard time deciding which scale to use. I'm going to start the acetone soak this morning and let 'er go for two days. So I'd like a poll on which of the three below. Thanks fellas.

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Green/Brown canvas micarta
Cocobolo
Gabon Ebony

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Why/what are you soaking in Acetone??? Unless you have an older slab-side 110, there won't be any glue (well, on that one you have pictured there won't be any glue)...

Just pop'er open, drill out the rivet heads from the back, and they'll fall off...

The hollow rivets on the Buck scales have the peened part on the inside and the head on the outside (backwards from most knives)...

You pretty much need to separate the halves if you expect to salvage the old scales...and get the rivets out...without damaging them too badly...

just my $.02...Go ahead and use a hammer & chisel if you like... :D

Here's a pic of the liners/scales/rivets...hollow [peened] part of rivet in the inside, rounded head on the outside...

 
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The canvas micarta would be my choice, but any of them would look great. I'd love to see pics of this project in progress. :thumbup:
 
Cool project Flatlander. My vote is for the Micarta, 2nd choice would be Ebony. Hope you share photos of the process....
 
hummmm ... my vote is the micarta :)
like trax says it is the old ones that have glue and it is a mother bear to get off!!
note the edge lines of the brass bolsters are NOT Parallel !!!
they are off by one or two degrees at least!
i made a mistake of cutting the first set of alpha grips parallel and they wont fit..
 
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Well I took them off with my grinder. Which left a couple of very slight nicks on the liner. But it was fast. Didn't even think about keeping a pattern. Oh well. Its a 1994 btw.

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Here is the grinder...A Cootes 2x72 w/10in wheel.
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wow ... i thought only the guys on the tv shows had clean shops!!!!
R U going to FG the frame?
btw i was inspired by darrellS and trax to try scale swap
thanks guys!
 
wow ... i thought only the guys on the tv shows had clean shops!!!!
R U going to FG the frame?
btw i was inspired by darrellS and trax to try scale swap
thanks guys!
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I had just finished building my shop and the grinder is brand new. At that point---No projects.

Its plenty dusty now.

My intent is the epoxy and use the grinder to fit and finish. We'll see how it goes.
 
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You're putting tire rubber on your 110??? :confused:

Interesting idea... :cool:
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I am actually going to try this after hunting season is over. Will have plenty of time to visualize while out there hunting.

Flatlander, I think that cocobola finished out with finger rubbed tru-oil would look great, and even the ebony. the tru-oil would really bring out the color in the cocobola.

My micarta 110/112's are cool, but not so much that I pay them as much attention.

Sorry about drifting with the road tread. rubber buckys and deer blood have been on my mind. :D
 
Flatlander, I think that cocobola finished out with finger rubbed tru-oil would look great, and even the ebony. the tru-oil would really bring out the color in the cocobola.
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Interesting!! I had already planned to use the Birchwood gun wax as the final step for the two woods. But, I had not thought of the Tru-Oil. Hummmhh! I refinished a really nice walnut stock from a 70's Interarms Mark X that was scratched up. Stripped and sanded it down to raw wood and used True Oil and it looked great. Dang...I'm really liking that idea.:thumbup:

Ebony would be really nice and I can't remember ever seeing one in ebony before.
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I too have never noticed a 110 in ebony and I was leaning towards it for that reason.

OK, since I'm not going to do finger grooves on this one I'm going to pass on the micarta.
In the morning, I'll do some finish sanding on the cocobolo and ebony and then tru-oil them both. I'll show a picture of that and see what everyone thinks.

Thanks for all the input. This should be fun.
 
yes it is ...isn't it! :D ;)
once TS talked me in to doing battle buck RB it was so much easer to do another as prize for sales slogan and testing and then a 112... and possable one more battle buck RB...and 112.. who knows!
 
Your project just reminds me,what a famous european catlery company doing!
They use pepole will to create something.Therefor during there workshop tour,for a separate fee everyone who interested in can make there own custom knife.Cyou imagine that BUCK starting the same.You visit the factory and on the end of the tour you start build the knife the as the way you wish.
That is would be a real custom knife made it by your own!
 
AT this point (without any tru oil on them) I think I would lean towards the cocbolo, but Something tells me that maybe tomorrow my mind will change ;)
 
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Interesting!! I had already planned to use the Birchwood gun wax as the final step for the two woods. But, I had not thought of the Tru-Oil. Hummmhh! I refinished a really nice walnut stock from a 70's Interarms Mark X that was scratched up. Stripped and sanded it down to raw wood and used True Oil and it looked great. Dang...I'm really liking that idea.:thumbup:
In the morning, I'll do some finish sanding on the cocobolo and ebony and then tru-oil them both. I'll show a picture of that and see what everyone thinks.

Thanks for all the input. This should be fun.
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One of my other hobbies is refinishing/restoring rifle stocks. Getting the factory finish off, sometimes reveals an awesome piece of wood underneath that the tru-oil does a beautiful job on. One of these days I will put up some pics of the Browning A-5 20G. :D

Can't wait to see your results. :thumbup:
 
Well I got excited about seeing the impact of the tru-oil. So I went and did it before the game. What'cha think now. The Coco is very rich looking in person. The Ebony just blackened on up...very nice.

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