Putting a righty-only clip on the other side of knife?

Caffeinepirate

Caffeinepirate

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Hi everyone,

I'm a southpaw who has some knives that have clips that were only made for rightys.

Do you have any suggestions on how I can mount the clip on the other side?

A few things:

1) I live in an apartment, so I don't have a garage full of high powered manly tools. So drilling holes for the torx screw would probably be out of the question. I'm not looking to buy a $300 machine just to switch the clip on a couple of my knives.

2) I would like the end result to look nice, not sloppy. I'm not sure if carefully super glueing it on the side would look decent or not? Would super glue even hold over the long term.

I would like to do this myself, as opposed to spending the cash to have someone drill the holes for me.

Any suggestions would be appreciated :)
 
A lot depends on the knife. Glue will fail rapidly, not a good idea. All you need on a knife with a metal body or liners is a way to drill a straight hole and a tap set to thread the hole. Even a small tabletop drill press will do fine. A person with excellent hand skills can do it with a pistol drill, but a drill press is MUCH better. The little presses are under a hundred bucks new, and less used.

Metal bodies and liners are softer than blades, so you can drill them with HSS bits, which are the most common type of twist bits. Go slowly and use the correct size bit for the tap you are using. Oil helps, too.
 
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