Whoa.
I've started 3 threads in a little more than 12 hours. Must be some kinda record for me! This thread deals with tweaking knives. Just curious as to how many of you folks, when you get your new knife, have to tweak it to fit your style? Is there one thing that you do to every knife, or does the knife dictate what you do to it? I'm asking this question because, you see, I am a tweaker. I understand that I will always be a tweaker. My first memories are of me tweaking things. So, what do I tweak? I will almost always disassemble a new knife and go inside it to do some polishing of the liners and blade tang so that it will be smoother. Many knives do not have this done to the degree I do it and I know that to do so would drive up the cost, and I don't mind one bit doing it myself as I enjoy it. Another thing I will do if this is to be and edc is try to do something with the clip if it is not already a deep ride clip( see ZT0500 Clip Issues thread). Sometimes this works out very well, i.e. my Strider AR sports a foldover deep ride clip, that I made
, that places the entire knife in my pocket with only the short clip itself showing. Another example is what I have done to my ZT0500 so that it too remains entirely inside my pocket with only the clip showing, but it did that before I tweaked it. Fortunately, my other edc's all have deep ride clips that either put the whole knife down inside the pocket with only the clip visible(Bladetech Rijbak) or have the clip mounted high which allows only a very small part of the handle to show, (BM 610 Rukus, ZT0200).
One other thing I do, but not with every knife, is to polish the liner edges and sometimes do something with the G-10/micarta handles, either polish them to a wood grain look, or groove them using a sanding drum and a Dremel tool.
So, how about it, who else is ready to step up and admit that they are a tweaker also!!
I've started 3 threads in a little more than 12 hours. Must be some kinda record for me! This thread deals with tweaking knives. Just curious as to how many of you folks, when you get your new knife, have to tweak it to fit your style? Is there one thing that you do to every knife, or does the knife dictate what you do to it? I'm asking this question because, you see, I am a tweaker. I understand that I will always be a tweaker. My first memories are of me tweaking things. So, what do I tweak? I will almost always disassemble a new knife and go inside it to do some polishing of the liners and blade tang so that it will be smoother. Many knives do not have this done to the degree I do it and I know that to do so would drive up the cost, and I don't mind one bit doing it myself as I enjoy it. Another thing I will do if this is to be and edc is try to do something with the clip if it is not already a deep ride clip( see ZT0500 Clip Issues thread). Sometimes this works out very well, i.e. my Strider AR sports a foldover deep ride clip, that I made, that places the entire knife in my pocket with only the short clip itself showing. Another example is what I have done to my ZT0500 so that it too remains entirely inside my pocket with only the clip showing, but it did that before I tweaked it. Fortunately, my other edc's all have deep ride clips that either put the whole knife down inside the pocket with only the clip visible(Bladetech Rijbak) or have the clip mounted high which allows only a very small part of the handle to show, (BM 610 Rukus, ZT0200). One other thing I do, but not with every knife, is to polish the liner edges and sometimes do something with the G-10/micarta handles, either polish them to a wood grain look, or groove them using a sanding drum and a Dremel tool.
So, how about it, who else is ready to step up and admit that they are a tweaker also!!
