Options for liners

JW Knives

JW Knives

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I know about the obvious options as I have tried many. But have any of you guys ever found anything at a local hardware store or even a walmart that you have used or considered using of liners?

Recently I found some nice hard rubberized material in my dads hangar that I have been using and it is great, about 1/16 thick.

Let me know
thanks!
 
Liners on a fixed blade or folder? If fixed blade. Try some copper or brass sheet (flashing)
 
There are some good knife supplies at Knife Supplies.Ca but aftrer that use the stores in the USA. There are several and for me they all seem very hard to try to give me good products with good service. The items if the same seem to have the same priceone store to another. Frank
 
Thanks 1234, I see your from Toronto area. How is the shipping from this place? The only reason I try to buy from inside Canada is that I don't like getting hit with crazy shipping fees.
 
I hate paying for shipping.

I always try for USPS instead of UPS because of the UPS $40 brokerage fees and such nonsense.

The Canadian suppliers are direct from plastics distributors where you need to buy whole sheets and minimum charges in the hundreds of $


Buying from Canadian knife suppliers may work, but their inventory is much less & they just add those higher fees to your final price anyway.

I say pick what you want, try to consolidate orders and get shipping quotes before you buy.
Even those shipping in flat rate USPS will have the $20 cost doubled when you add on taxes, customs fees and such
Buy as much as you can at once and stuff that box full.


or

Hit Ebay, & buy one piece at a time & get it mailed cheap in an envelope.

You have to see what works for you.
 
+1 on Alpha for Canadians. Give them a call and they will discuss with you the cheapest shipping options. They use flat rate USPS envelopes/boxes to ship your stuff, and if you are just ordering liners they can fit it in a flat rate envelope... They did this for me with about 8 sheets of liner, and 1 sheet of handle material, got to me in about 4 days (just across the border) with no brokerage fees (this is luck sometimes though). But I agree with count, if you can do a flat rate box, make it worth it and fill that sucker up with supplies!
 
Thin g-10 is good.Ive also used kydex.I noticed trugrit was selling sheets of plastic liner in .030 thickness.
 
Maybe plastic sheets cut from empty engine oil cans/jerrycans? The garage near my work has them in red.
 
I like to use old name tag stock from the 60s/70s, lots of color combinations, various thickness, somewhat hard to find R.W. Wilson is a supplier who has some stock of it, 4-5 bucks 5"x8" piece.
 
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