So I made my own bruiser g10 for my newest DSSF

breavis5694

breavis5694

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Ok so I bought a DSSF off of the exchange because I've always loved the ergos of this blade. The black coating and black g10 had to go, it didn't fit my motif.

So I went to USAknifemaker and ordered slabs of bruiser g10 and made an outline from the knife itself and started grinding. The slabs started like this, to be honest I felt like I may have bit off more than I could chew.


Then I worked them down to this


Then I attached them and started grinding again...


Then after hand sanding them, grinding them and smoothing the tang to the handles and vice versa, I finished with this and I'm very happy.



I was able to keep gripping them and just felt for the hard spots or hot spots, the right side is a bit thicker in the middle because it filled out my palm swell nicely. Without even using the choil nobody could tear this thing out of my hand. I have yet another knife to be buried with....nice

Then it took re heating the kydex to fit it to the new g10, the retention is excellent.

This was fun and I may be doing it to other Busse knives I own, because the hand smoothed is so comfy....

Thanks for your time HOGS
 
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Nice job on removing the blade coating. What did you use and sand with? Thanks
 
This blade was super easy. I took some advice and used citristrip. The sanding was done with 320 to get the decarb off then I used jewellers rouge and white rubbing compound on an angle grinder with a white polishing wheel on it. I flip it over and clamp it to my work bench and just take my time
 
Just look at that nude beauty. Great job on the handles!

What sizes did you order?
 
As requested elsewhere here are some grip to tang pics






I used supplies purchased at usaknifemaker.com, that's where the g10, screws, and the threaded .25" corbi
 
Wow--that's a great project--it turned out so well. In all honesty, I did't realize just how much work you did here when I saw the knife in the last thread. Thanks for the pics too. :thumbup:
 
Very nice work, congrats on a great job.


breavis5694 said:
the right side is a bit thicker in the middle because it filled out my palm swell nicely.
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There are a very few Busse models where the right scale is thicker than the left for this reason.
 
Aias said:
Wow--that's a great project--it turned out so well. In all honesty, I did't realize just how much work you did here when I saw the knife in the last thread. Thanks for the pics too. :thumbup:
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Honestly I had about 4 hours total in the knife, stripping and all. I will do again. I have two more fresh slabs waiting on a decision. It was daunting but took way less time than I thought. Thanks to a belt sander and palm sander and my myriad of hand sand paper. Possibly the AALB that's sitting on the exchange... If it doesn't sell I will do it to that and clip the knuckle support between the ring and pinky finger knuckles and smooth it up so it fits my hand and then strip it and bruiser it out. The collection is getting pretty respectable
 
That turned out great, good job! If I had more free time between work, family & projects, I would like to do some blue/black linen/canvas handles like that on one or more of mine. It is a little more dull, but super comfy and still bruiser colored. :)
 
AZTimT said:
That turned out great, good job! If I had more free time between work, family & projects, I would like to do some blue/black linen/canvas handles like that on one or more of mine. It is a little more dull, but super comfy and still bruiser colored. :)
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I'll check that OUT
 
breavis5694 said:
Honestly I had about 4 hours total in the knife, stripping and all. I will do again. I have two more fresh slabs waiting on a decision. It was daunting but took way less time than I thought. Thanks to a belt sander and palm sander and my myriad of hand sand paper. Possibly the AALB that's sitting on the exchange... If it doesn't sell I will do it to that and clip the knuckle support between the ring and pinky finger knuckles and smooth it up so it fits my hand and then strip it and bruiser it out. The collection is getting pretty respectable
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Not bad at all, and the results seem well worth the elbow grease. The AALB project sounds impressive--if they made aversion without the knuckles, I'd be very tempted... maybe a "son of..." w/o the knuckles for us in CA. Thanks again for posting the pics.
 
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