What was I thinking??

[2 shot]

Not a good time of the year to start a project but I had some time last night and tore into the Ram. I couldn't get 2brothers polished example out of my head.

Someone had cerakoted the aluminum so I had to remove it as well as the original black. Slow going by hand, gonna take a while to final polishing. From the little testing I did the blade is going to go a lot faster.

I thought I would try to make some scales. Have some small cedar wedges that are the right thickness. The softness of the wood will make it easier for a first attempt. Over the years I have proven that I am not much of a craftsman. I have been lucky on a few occasions and my efforts looked acceptable, we'll see.



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[2brothers]

Great start! I didn't do mine overnight either. Well......maybe.
It was a bit of work but worth it. I'm carrying it right now.

I have a "MS Paint hand drawn" diagram of the "device" I made to take out the thumbstuds.
There are other ways to do it I'm sure but this was a win-win I won't scratch the blade setup.

I'll take a look for it.

 

[2 shot]

The pictures don't show it well, it looks a lot better than it did but a long way from 2brothers quality. I decided to try and be a hero and polish the blade with the thumb studs in, bad decision very time consuming. The blade was much harder to polish than the scales. Sadly I dropped the blade twice onto a concrete floor. The first time left no mark but second time it landed on the tip and bent it.

All in all it was a fun little project, with some equipment it would be much easier and yield perfect results.


With my limited tools, (a sanding wheel on an electric grinder, files and sand paper) I am happy enough with my effort on wood scales using soft cedar to find some burl of some kind and give it a go.

The Ram is such a cool knife. This one is much smoother since I polished and lubed the pivot assembly. Works very well as a left handed knife.

 

[nwmetalbug]

Looks good let us know when you get the scale done that trial one looks nice