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The pin on the inside of the g10 scale.
What is that? I'm assuming it's not needed...
What is that? I'm assuming it's not needed...
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What is this? Southard
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Oh also, why is there a milled hole near the pivot? Nothing goes into it. The stock scale is weird man.
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Pin may be a production aid, to help align the scale during assembly. Milled hole may serve a similar function while the scale is being shaped, milled, and/or drilled.
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Sounds right to me.....also the little pin could be meant to stop scale wiggle if the body screws loosen....I don really know
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This would be my guess as well, similar to the hole near the butt end of a sebenza which is only there to hold the scale in place while milling and surface grinding.
Sounds right to me.....also the little pin could be meant to stop scale wiggle if the body screws loosen....I don really know
This sounds right.
The only thing holding the scale and preventing it from wiggling is the pivot bushing, and the lanyard tube. the tube it self may be removed, so I think they added the pin there for extra fit and incase someone removes the lanyard tube.
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What about the scale screws? They are sufficient for holding it in place regardless of the lanyard tube, no?
This isn't really making sense to me. Are you guys saying that they mill the scale while it's on the ti liner? If so I guess that makes sense for the pin that is there, but why then is there no pin (and milled hole in the liner) near the pivot?
And if the top one (near the pivot) is used for alignment while milling, but the scale is milled away from the liner, why leave the lower pin and go to the trouble of milling the liner instead of just removing both pins?
This isn't really making sense to me. Are you guys saying that they mill the scale while it's on the ti liner? If so I guess that makes sense for the pin that is there, but why then is there no pin (and milled hole in the liner) near the pivot?
And if the top one (near the pivot) is used for alignment while milling, but the scale is milled away from the liner, why leave the lower pin and go to the trouble of milling the liner instead of just removing both pins?
The screw holes have to larger than the screws themselves to make it easy to assemble/disassemble.
If you notice, the standoffs do not reach the G10. So remove the pin, and basically all you got is friction from the screws holding the scale down which won't be enough.
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I must be a complete dolt. I still don't see what you're saying.
The screwed holes in the g10 are countersunk and the scale is firmly held in place by those three screws along with the pivot. I simply don't see any reason for the pin.
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That's just the stock scale.
It's dyed here- http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1042072
I was eyeing some bamboo today though. I think a scale in bamboo dyed a deep red would look stellar. Maybe done with a fiber spacer material. Not sure about that though, all I have is red, black and white and I'm probably going to use the red on my Contego.
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No worries man, it does look a little weird at a glance.
So about the pin. Besides what I've already asked, what are the custom guys doing? Are they putting a pin in the back too?
It would be cool if Sal or Brad could answer this. Anyone have a Southard custom that might know if he uses something similar? I can't imagine that he does.