ZT 0566 MODIFICATIONS, Anyone playing around yet?

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kooter55

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Now that the 0566 has been out for a couple months, who hasn't been able to keep to them self and alter the knife.

I searched the forum and the Internet only to find a couple de-assists and custom scale.

I've personally de-assisted the knife, added a 90° edge to the spine (for fire steel use), and added a forward finger choil. The finger choil to me was a necessity on the knife because I kept catching myself choking up on the blade.

Does anyone know of a retailer that offers any custom scales yet?
 
I don't know of anyone who makes or plans to make scales for the 566, but I'm sure if you send yours to a custom scale maker on here you will be more than happy with the results.
 
How hard is it to de assist the knife? I never owned a ZT but considering getting the 566.
 
I have one on the way and am thinking of things to do to change it up a bit...can't wait to start.
 
Revival29 said:
How hard is it to de assist the knife? I never owned a ZT but considering getting the 566.
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Really easy, pop off the G10 scale, take torsion bar out, put G10 scale back on. Make sure blade is open when doing this. Much better knife de-assisted IMO.
 
bpeezer said:
I don't know of anyone who makes or plans to make scales for the 566, but I'm sure if you send yours to a custom scale maker on here you will be more than happy with the results.
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Rival does scales for them. He's done a few already
 
Just ordered one and have one on the way. Excited to see what others will be doing to theirs!
 
I did a G10 scale for one so far, keeping the assist. I'd like to dress mine up with a wood scale but I think it would need to be deassisted.
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You can pay 60-115 around the net for certain framelocks. Prices are going up for sure. But more than worth it. ShepardCC does amazing work. Go to him.
 
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I picked mine up at the Post Office today. Out of the box the blade was centered with no play. Opening it was hard at first...stiff...but worked itself in while I was running errands.

I had the day off due to a nasty fall going to work this morning...coworker said I hit the deck like a dropped sack of taters...sure hurt...Boss sent me home...I did not fall on work property.

So after returning home and resting my back for a bit I began "fun with knives". First I reprofiled the edge to 20 degrees using my Lansky...it took nearly two hours to get it honed to shaving sharp. The grind is not perfectly even on both sides but it is not off enough to worry about. I then disassembled the knife, cleaned off the lube they use...and they use a lot...polished the washers using 2000 grit wet/dry paper and polished the surfaces on the blade and liners with the same grit paper. Once all that was completed I used Bench Made lube sparingly to coat all friction surfaces. I use the knife lefty and felt the lock bar was a bit too hard to move to release the blade so I removed the stop and carefully bent the lock bar a bit. I reassembled and tested the opening smoothness and lock bar tension...It now opens so easily and smoothly and I am able to unlock the blade more easily too.

I found the Elmax steel to be as easy to sharpen as BM's 154CM. The Lansky diamond hones did a great job removing steel during the reprofile process.

None of the screws were stripped either the threads or torx heads. It disassembled and assembled very easily.

It is a great knife so far. It fits my hand perfectly. I'm more impressed with this knife than I expected.
 
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