Need some grip!

DavidZ

DavidZ

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I have a fixed blade knife with a black Canvas Micarta handle, that is just too polished. It is a BRKT rivers edge. The handle is so nicely polished, that it actually looks pretty, but it is too smooth. What are my options? I love the shape of the handle, and I do not want it too rough, just a little more "grippy".
Thanks,
Dave.
 
you could drill a bunch of holes in it. or use a dremel with a grinding wheel and make design gouges in it. thats what i think of off the top
 
take 120 grit sandpaper and clamp the knife down by the blade. Go at the handle like your polishing your shoes with the sandpaper. Dont hit the tang though. That should do the trick and still leave is with a nice not too deep of scrathes to look unfinished. Then hit it with 0000 steel whool :)
 
I thought about stippling, but I do not have the skill for checkering. I will try the 120 grit sanding though. The handle is pretty though. Maybe there will be some more ideas.
 
sanding micarta is interesting IMO, it doesn't scratch super badly, but leaves a matte finish. You could tape off the metal and hit it with fine sand from a sand blaster.
 
Since I'm not a micarta fan, just take off the micarta and put something attractive on in it's place.
 
first off tape the blade and guard so you dont scratch it then do what was suggested and use some sandpaper works real well on marcotta and by the way dont breath that stuff in when your sanding cover your nose and mouth up
 
DavidZ said:
I thought about stippling, but I do not have the skill for checkering. I will try the 120 grit sanding though. The handle is pretty though. Maybe there will be some more ideas.
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The first time I tried Checking I did it with a triangular file on a Ka-Bar leather washer handle. Very coarse and some what crude BUT very effective.
Later Some one saw what I had done and ask me to mod his knife. It was one of those smooth handled Bucks.; I made a tool out of a hack saw blade and did a bit nicer job. I didn't know till many projects later that you could BUY checking tools and that people actual payed to learn how to do so. After all checking is only parallel and crossed lines. My point is that you can over think the problem.
 
You could mask off the metal areas with duct tape and bead blast the handle.
Stacy
 
I do not have a bead blaster, but what about the hockey tape? Tell me about hockey tape.
I am not a hockey player, so what is it? Double sided?
 
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