You’re right, I suppose I should have been more specific, it reduces the audience of people that might want to purchase it, making it more difficult to sell and get your money back out of. Mods and recovers in my experience have the most worth and value to the person who wanted it to be that way in the first place, and less value to most others as it is no longer “mint” for lack of a better word, the one you have there is certainly a nice one and I’m sure it holds significant value, even more than the original, but don’t forget there is also a cap lifter that was sacrificed in creating it too though, as well as the covers and the labor. I was being far too general in answering a question that has so many various subtleties.
Edit: I think all I’m saying is that one should not do mods or request mods for any other reason than to make a knife more to their liking, not to make money from, and if that is something that someone wants to do, modding is probably not a good strategy.
I refined my method for install and I'm super pleased with how clean I'm able to get them. Thanks for looking!
Video also posted to my IG page.
