When a knife is double cut... (Pic request)

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uyotg

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... what else is bead blasted? Is it everything? I noticed the tubing on my double cut BOSS Jack is bead-blasted. A friend also noticed the black paper Micarta on it is rougher and less shiny/slick than on his CABS.
Man... DETAILS. That's what separates :yawn:ho-hum:yawn: from :cool:awesome:cool:.

Does anyone else have comparison pics of two knives with the exact same configuration except that one is double cut and the other isn't?

I can't get enough of double cut
 
AFAIK, only the blade gets the finish, not the scales. Not sure how to explain your observation about the tube rivets.

IMHO, the scales should get blasted. Blasted micarta and G10 has a very nice texture. Tom Krein does it.

I have one of the Easton Show specials HHFSH. Originally satin, I asked Garth to give it a DCBB finish. He was somewhat reluctant, as they normally do the blade before fixing the scales; and with these solid pins, taking the scales off would be a pain. So he did the whole knife, scales and all, at my direction, and it turned out great.

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Ah, of course... what's a thread without pictures.
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resinguy said:
AFAIK, only the blade gets the finish, not the scales. Not sure how to explain your observation about the tube rivets.
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I don't know if this picture shows it well here, but the tubing of the double cut blade on the right definitely has a grainy look where the occasional speck shines in the light, where as the non-double cut on the left is completely shiny.

I wish I had the CABS LE still around to compare the scales, but I don't... but you can see how white and sandy the black paper Micarta looks already. Yes, it actually looks like that!

resinguy said:
IMHO, the scales should get blasted. Blasted micarta and G10 has a very nice texture. Tom Krein does it.

I have one of the Easton Show specials HHFSH. Originally satin, I asked Garth to give it a DCBB finish. He was somewhat reluctant, as they normally do the blade before fixing the scales; and with these solid pins, taking the scales off would be a pain. So he did the whole knife, scales and all, at my direction, and it turned out great.
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I'm really interested in the bead-blasted canvas. What's the texture like on the bead-blasted canvas there? Good for a user? Do you have a hand-smoothed canvas and a regular machined canvas to compare it to?
Maybe I'll ask Garth to bead-blast the hand-smoothed canvas handles on my custom shop piece.
 
Those scales do look blasted compared to my CABS and BWMLE scales
 
cricketdave said:
I like the texture of bead blasted canvas, it feels grippier to me.
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Cool :) I've never felt it. Canvas Micarta is hard enough that it can get polished to a pretty slick texture, and I didn't want that in a user so I just put in a request with Garth to bead blast that sucker :thumbup: it's hard for me to tell how different it looks from pictures alone, but from resinguy's pictures, it looks like the most superficial layers of the resin have been removed through the blasting, exposing the very fibers of the canvas fabric.

... is that an accurate description?

I'd love to see some bead-blasted G10, too.
 
Thats exactly how it feels, more fabric i guess. I have a chris reeve green beret and its beed blasted and very grippy. I've been thinking about doing my hell razor grips and all.
 
uyotg said:
Cool :)
I'd love to see some bead-blasted G10, too.
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Not sure if the G-10 on this Off Duty variant was bead blasted or just left rough (the blade itself is satin)...but it was the grippiest G-10 handled knife I've personally seen from the Shop. This one is no longer with me...last I heard, it's a user in the NYC/Brooklyn area...

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Thanks Pete & Wolfdad... can you say anything definitive about the scales and tubing? Hard to see from the pictures, but I think I see bead-blasted rivets in yours as well. They're visibly different somehow, although the scales look the same.
 
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