New Handle Options

[JK Knives]

This is a new handle material called kirinite, that I will be offering. These are a $10 option

Desert Camo



Lava Flow



Patriot



Pearl Sunspot



Pepper Jade



Purple Haze



Red Mother Of Pearl



Royal Pearl



Toxic Green

 

[mqqn]

Cool stuff!

I read a little on it - I read that the more it is polished the more it "bonds with your hand", so it supposedly is not slippery.

Will you be polishing these scales smooth?

best

mqqn

 

[outdoorsfan]

Wowzers! That's some cool stuff!

 

[mykel m]

Cool!
I can see some Sunspot with black fiber pins on my next JK.(whenever that'll be)

 

[JK Knives]

Cool stuff!

I read a little on it - I read that the more it is polished the more it "bonds with your hand", so it supposedly is not slippery.

Will you be polishing these scales smooth?

best

mqqn

 

[JK Knives]

The stuff is funny to work with. After I cut out the scales on my scroll saw, they "glued" themselves back together! Had to cut it twice.

 

[mykel m]

The stuff is funny to work with. After I cut out the scales on my scroll saw, they "glued" themselves back together! Had to cut it twice.

Too fast a saw speed.
I had the same problem when I cut a piece of plexiglass to fit in my truck window when it was broken into.
All I had to cut it with was an air powered jigsaw & the melted pg fused right back together.

 

[KYenglish]

cool, so, it's like plastic?

 

[mykel m]

cool, so, it's like plastic?

Acrylic IIRC.

After reading a bit it's probably not acrylic, but close I'd imagine.

 

[JK Knives]

Acrylic. I was cutting it slow, but I guess not slow enough.

 

[mykel m]

Here's a quote from Mike Stewert of Bark River copied from another forum.

"Kirinite is a new material.

It appears to be so good that it probably will replace all of our other acrylic materials.

We threw it on the concrete floor full force - the normal acrylics we use would have shattered.

They Travis Froze it overnite to -2.

We then threw it again and it did not break.

I would say that it is not as tough as Micarta or G-10 but much Tougher than any other Acrylic material that we have ever used.

You will be seeing more of it and it comes in a lot of colors and color combinations.

Mike"

 

[Mack]

I can see me getting some Pepper Jade for me and a kitchen knife in Purple Haze for Karen. Cool stuff.

 

[Rockywolf]

Cool stuff!

 

[RGrizzleLeather]

Thats some pretty neat looking material.

 

[glennbad]

Very cool looking stuff. Really changes the looks of things.