When your G10 is too aggessive, then what??

MTHall720

MTHall720

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I have a BM 710 which I like a lot except for one thing: The aggressiveness of the G10. I am not a wimpy person but the G10 rubs against my pants pocket, and against my hand, so hard that it is not easily to quickly get it out of my pocket, which is important to me. In the past I have tried making my G10 scales less grippy but did not find the results too good. Short of sanding with a block hand sander starting with around 800 grit and then a finer grit, does anyone else have a suggestion? I don't know if there is anyone on the forum that does a particular service like this. The other alternative is to get custom scales but don;t want to spend that kind of money.

All ideas welcome. Thanks.
 
If you have a dremmel tool, believe it or not, the soft cotton buffing wheel at full speed will soften sharp checkering. I've used it on gun grips and fixed blades, but not G-10. At 10,000+ rpm, that cotton wheel is like a grinder, but not as aggressive.
 
G10 is glass fibre in resin, backed to be very hard. The same stuff as circuit boards are made of.

You can just get a little sandpaper and sand it down as far as you want to.
 
I'm surprised you said your 710... I think it's very smooth. Try sanding it a bit, I can't vouch for the dremel with cotton wheel.
 
my 710 is actually quite smooth, but i did sanded a recon 1 which was way too rough.
sand it with some fine sandpaper, but do it under water, g10 dust is not what you want to breath..and take it nice and slow, check at small intervals, it goes pretty fast.
 
Thanks everyone. I will give an update on how it turns out.
My pants are somewhat tight in the pocket my blade goes in. Just used to the slippier scales on my 581, and Onslought.
 
improvise. Loosen the tension on the clip a bit. I'd rather have a tattered pocket than a lost knife.

Skimo said:
I'm surprised you said your 710... I think it's very smooth. Try sanding it a bit, I can't vouch for the dremel with cotton wheel.
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The G10 on that knife is about as smooth as they come before being polished.
 
I've sanded down some of the handles on cold steel knives before - the handles were so rough that drawing them at speed or under stress made it nearly impossible,and a fumble at best. A couple minutes sanding and they were good to go.
 
G10 is pretty easily worked with sand paper. I had to take down the scales on my Cold Steel Hold Out (WAY too aggressive) and I just used an metal file I had in the office. Didn't take long at all. But I agree with most the others that the 710 is already pretty fine.
 
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