What thickness for liners on this necker?

[Brian.Evans]

I'm having some trouble visualizing the liner thicknesses on this necker. I want to do a few with g10 liners, but I'm not sure if I should go with .030 or .060?

The handle is about 0.40"ish thick overall, with 0.93" of that being blade stock. Is there a guideline I should know about? It seems that 0.030" would be more appropriate on a little knife like this, but I'm not sure if that thin will even have a point to be there? I guess I don't know what I don't know.

Educate me?

 

[Chris Lambeth]

To each his own, this one for me is .030. 60 thou and up starts getting to be pretty bold and can take away more than it adds. I like subtle highlights for woods especially. MY guideline is as mentioned. Mostly thick g-10, for me, may see .060 ish but not out of the 60's. Then it begins to be come less of a liner and just two stacked handle materials. Decent look under "jade" g-10 for me, but otherwise, nah.

 

[Brian.Evans]

Thanks Chris. That was my gut reaction too.

 

[Hengelo_77]

just wanted to say that that is a pretty knife

 

[jawilder]

I use .03 liner material and .25 scales. This gives plenty of material to grind off and get the handle shape I want.

 

[Brian.Evans]

just wanted to say that that is a pretty knife

Thanks. I've been carrying it since I got it done and it works really well.

I use .03 liner material and .25 scales. This gives plenty of material to grind off and get the handle shape I want.

Thanks Jason.