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T.willy
463
Jul 30, 2018
Great job on the Para 3. 👌
Spike_SPGL
138
Jul 30, 2018
T.willyThanks T.Willy! My first dye job. Did a bunch of plastic AR parts aswell to match.
Hatuletoh
850
Aug 3, 2018
Spike_SPGLI've been trying to reply/post on your thread since you started it, but keep falling alseep halfway through. I thought for sure I'd made a post last night that was just something like:
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...when I woke up with my phone mashed under my cheek, but apparently, thankfully, not.
I've been trying for days to say I love the color job on those "natural" G10 scales. I find them to be rather hideous in their, er, natural state, so to speak, but I like that the green isn't too radical a change. It just makes it so the scales no longer look like they need to go under sun lamps and have tests for diminished liver function. I love the M4 blades, and I always try to buy exclusives from BladeHQ (and BladeOps) since they're my local businesses--and holy hell, are they ever good to me; that could be an entire post in itself--but I wish they'd have gone with another look for their Spyderco exclusives.
I have the satin blade--now heavily patina'd--Manix, and the PM3; also the black DLC blade PM2. I intended to buy the DLC PM3 last weekend, but instead got some carbon fiber scales, which burned up the knife budget for that week (more about those scales in a min). I'll probably leave the PM2 as-is, its a "drawer model" but I'll be going to town on the other too as soon as I'm able, which brings me to a cpl questions: first, warm vinegar I can imagine is pungent smelling, but what about the dye? Any extra weird smell with that? My cohabitant family members are almost pathological about their aversion to smells.
Secondly, have you ever tried any different colors? The green looks plenty good, just wondering about options, and how much of the final product is because of the inherent hue of the G10. For example, would the right blue produce tealscales--perhaps not unlike the "submit" button I'm looking at right now on this page, if your settings are the same? Dont know if you know, but you literally couldn't know less than me on the subject.
Returning to the carbon fiber scales: they are blue twill, for my ZT 0393, and I'm very pleased with them. I'd upgraded the pivot screw and filler tab to copper, and the clip to blue Ti using Hinderer products; the scales are froma company I'd never heard of called Karbadize. Upgrading my two 0393s, and adding lanyards to various knives is as much customization as I've done so far. I would like to do more, but not in the summer. That's winter work. 0393 front/presentation side:
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Rear/right side, w/ filler tab:
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Detail of blue-twill carbon scale in sunlight:
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0393 standard and sprint run config's; sprint run w/ bronze pivot, clip, tab:
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Obligatory $$$ shot w/ Pretensious Composition
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Spike_SPGL
138
Aug 5, 2018
HatuletohYours is the first ZT I have looked over meticulously now. What a nice fit. What did something like that run you?

That orange pivot is sex.
Spike_SPGL
138
Nov 4, 2018
HatuletohI am just now noticing you had a write up in the comment of another user. First of all yes it does smell and its going to linger in the house for a day or two. The dye doesnt have any smell to it but the vinegar mixed in water and water slowly boiling out will give you that lovely fish factory smell. As far as color goes. Mine actually only got to this shade after an hour or so because I wasn't so heavy handed with the dye. For my solid parts like foregrips and stocks for AR's I tend to pour extra dye in to get it a more darker tone. I went with less this go around because I wanted to preserve the natural G10 translucence. I find that it will take any color your throw at it though. You could achieve that color of blue with some blue dye and a few drops of pink, and maybe a few drops of brightener. I am confident you could dye the natural g10 pure white if you tried, it takes color very well.
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