New Rats and a Quick Question

[CloudsRest]

My order from the custom shop showed up today and the knives are gorgeous! The blue/black G10 looks even better in person than I thought it would. Here are a couple pictures to show off:


I noticed that the back of the grip on the Rodent 3 was a biting into my hand a bit though, and here's why:


You can see that one of the handle slabs wasn't smoothed out as much at the end and is slightly shorter. I was thinking about smoothing it out with sand paper, but I've never sanded G10 before and don't want to mess up this nice of a knife or hurt the value of it. Is this something to send the knife in for?

 

[Hindsight]

Send it back in and we can take care of that for you.

 

[voracious1]

My R3 does the same thing. I never use any kind of power tool on my knives, but I think I'm going to break out the Dremel and make a rounder butt.

 

[Gusbuster]

I've sanded down a couple with 320 grit sandpaper, and they look fine. Be sure to wear a mask when sanding G10, it is harmful to your lungs. You could always send it back to the shop if it doesn't work out.

 

[chiral.grolim]

I rounded the head and heel of my Rodent Solution handle-slabs to improve comfort, did the same on a SK-4, but neither had a cosmetic defect and both were easy to do without marring the blade coating.
If the asymmetry of the scales bothers you and you want it fixed without marring the coating on the pommel, I'd send it in for the Swamp to fix, my $0.02