Layered Phenolic Goodness... (hand shaped Fusion green linen)

Dunner

Dunner

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I could not resist trying to get a better and obviously permanent look at the "strata" of the green linen slabs on my CGFBM. I don't know if anyone else notices this but the linen and G10 slabs receive a different "raptor" pattern on the fusion slabs. Linen and G10 are more wavy, "S" shaped grooves where the canvas are more angular (at least in the examples I have seen). In any case, I didn't feel the pattern showed the green linen as well as I would like and wanted to go with a retro look. I wanted to see how the hand shaped slabs would feel too.

Here are the results! I am VERY pleased with the slabs but I am not quite done yet. I am still going to do a little more sanding to finish out the areas around the tubes. To shake off the dust and to darken them after sanding I just applied olive oil which was handy. I will add clean/raw micarta pics if anyone wants to see that.

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That's beautiful Dunner! Knice work.:thumbup:
I had to shape my BATACLE slabs, and was very happy with the results as well. Not a very good pic from not a very good camera.:o
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Great work on your part as well Mymindisamob :thumbup:. It's suprising how good the micarta feels without the contours. I like how you worked around the tubes and that's the kind of thing I am after. The machined texture is gone but you kept a nice contour in there and it looks great. I think that treatment would feel great on my Fat Badger!
 
Dunner, MMIAM ... Those are some good lookin' smooth slabs! I Like 'em... :thumbup:
 
That certainly does expose a more colorful and stratafied view of the Micarta. How did you do the sanding? Belt sander? Sponge blocks? What grits were used? As you can tell this interests me as I have decided to alter some of my EDC handles.
 
MMIAM - I wondered what it would take for me to warm up to my BATAC. I believe you have shown me! Nice work, Bill
 
I did all my removal work by hand with coarse emery cloth. I didn't want to risk burning through even a single layer of micarta so I was willing to take it slow. I ran over it real quick just to knock down some of the grit markings with a fine emery cloth I haven't even really finish that up yet. Didn't take too long at all.
 
Thanks for the kind words. I was a little dissappointed at how my hand and the BATACLE fit together, since I fell in love with the TAC slabs on the Satin Jacks. It took a little nerve a more than a little rum to finally get down to it. I used an Orbital Disc sander with 150 grit on it. I finished off the edges with the little 3M drill attachments like Tyrkon Lawson uses. Like Dunner, I use Emory Cloth, or wet/dry sand paper to fine tune.
 
I like it :thumbup: Looks great! I may try this on my FFBM.
 
Dunner,

"Layered Phenolic Goodness"

Now THAT is some nice work...!!

Can't wait to get my hands on that and do a bit of spanking (erm, Field Testing!! :eek:) :D :D

Cheers,
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Very cool, Dunner. I'm thinking that may happen to one of my blades very, very soon! Emery cloth? Like scotchbrite??
 
That looks awesome!!! :thumbup: :thumbup:

I'll be doing this on some of my canvas slabbed blades. :D
 
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