Playing with the mill and handle slabs.......let's see some milled handles!

jonnymac44

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I took a break from grinding and drilling today to play with my mill and some handle slabs for some upcoming Ness-Macs. These were pretty simple, just some 1/8" slots milled into the scales to change things up a bit like a Dauntless. The black and orange layered G-10 slabs are now being glued up with white liners. We'll see how it turns out.

I know that Jens Anso uses his mill to make some very cool patterns for his handles. Granted, I believe he uses CNC for most of it, but I'm curious to see what you guys are doing with your mills for handle work, either with or without CNC. What kind of cool patterns, textures, or designs are you guys working on?

Here are a few shots of what I was doing today.....

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Lookin good Jonny! I swear some of the handle patterns that J.Anso does are sketched out on an Etch-a-Sketch!


-Xander
 
One time i dreamed of waking up to a mill even a mini-mill but it was just a dream, now if i had one..i could take slabs down, texture, mill out pockets for stuff, skys the limit! Maybe ill talk someone i know out of a little mini grizz, thats been sittin on bench gettin dusty since the big dog moved in, maybe he'll read this!!:D Lookin good jonny!
 
Is this some kind of joke?
The 'shop' in those pictures is WAY too clean to be real. I call shennanigans. ;)

I can't wait to see that black/orange G10 finished, Jonny. I just took delivery of a couple pieces myself.

-Daizee
 
Not to get off subject, but are you guys simply buying pieces of G10 and laminating them yourself or are the cool color combos I see available from a supplier?
 
I buy slabs online, and can get blue/black, orange/black, green/black. It's laminated like very thin-layer plywood.
The picture above looks just like the stuff I recently bought.

I'm pretty sure Jonny does his own two-tone layers in addition to whatever is publicly available, meaning he might mate a block of orange/black G10 with white micarta (ew?) or carbon fiber & yellow G10 (yay!). That makes for some thick material to grind down, especially in G10 - Jonny, you must have good dust collection. I hate working the stuff.

-Daizee
 
daizee said:
I buy slabs online, and can get blue/black, orange/black, green/black. It's laminated like very thin-layer plywood.
The picture above looks just like the stuff I recently bought.

I'm pretty sure Jonny does his own two-tone layers in addition to whatever is publicly available, meaning he might mate a block of orange/black G10 with white micarta (ew?) or carbon fiber & yellow G10 (yay!). That makes for some thick material to grind down, especially in G10 - Jonny, you must have good dust collection. I hate working the stuff.

-Daizee
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Thanks I've seen the thin layered dual color and tri color stuff from suppliers. I hadn't seen the odd combos which is why I thought they were custom.

Jonny, if you see this, what do you use to laminate them together? The same epoxy you use for attaching handles or something else?
 
GrizzlyBear said:
Not to get off subject, but are you guys simply buying pieces of G10 and laminating them yourself or are the cool color combos I see available from a supplier?
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I buy the thin layer laminations already done from the suppliers like alpha, and then do additional petering like grizzly said.
 
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