zt300 series mod

[peter r]

does anyone make a titanium scale to replace the g10 side of the zt300 series knife?? id like to remove the steel and g10 liners and replace with a solid titanium piece.

any help would be appreciated.

and i know its unnecessary and crazy but its pretty cool none the less.

 

[spiralarchitect]

I don't know of anyone, but, if you come across something... shoot me an email or PM

 

[Matt The Loader]

If you replace the g10 side with a solid piece of Ti, you will have to remove the torsion bar, and the knife won't stay closed unless you drill a divot into the blade for the ball to fall into, creating a detent, you will then have a flipper, and not a speedsafe knife.

 

[peter r]

understood, but im sure someone could replicate the required forms.

 

[Phillip Dobson]

If you replace the g10 side with a solid piece of Ti, you will have to remove the torsion bar, and the knife won't stay closed unless you drill a divot into the blade for the ball to fall into, creating a detent, you will then have a flipper, and not a speedsafe knife.

Drilling the detent would be cake compared to milling a scale from titanium. Additionally, anyone who could mill a scale like that would have no trouble putting the slot in for the torsion bar; even I can do that.

Good luck finding someone.

 

[peter r]

if anyone has this skill please post here or pm me. im very interested.

 

[Jason B.]

You could talk to STR but the mod will probably cost more than the knife.

 

[harkamus]

My brother gets a lot of machining work done. Best advice would be to contact your local machinists and see what they can do on the CNC machines.

I warn you...you'd probably have to pay a substantial amount of money, so it wouldn't be cost effective. You might pay way more than you actually paid for the knife.

 

[Matt The Loader]

...Anyone who could mill a scale like that would have no trouble putting the slot in for the torsion bar.

The scale would take lots skill, or programming on a computer, looks like all you would need after getting the general profile would be a ball mill for the texture. The bar is captured between the steel liner and the scale, without a liner, there won't be anything holding it in place. I think a flipper 0300 would be pretty cool, but I can't flip mine sliding my thumb nail off the spine of the blade, and the jimping chews up your finger...