Benchmade Altitude Scales

[GotDraw?]

@LBuchser --

Your over fitment and finish is totally perfect artwork! Did you epoxy and mechanically fasten the scales, or are they only fastened on? I don't see any glue squeeze out, so I'm guessing mechanical fastening only.

I totally get it that it's not worth your time to make them for sale. I am pretty sure I can make a set for my knife.

Appreciate some insight to shorten my learning curve and save me from ruining expensive carbon fiber in the process:

For the exterior perimeter edge:

• Did you create a template and then cut and shape them entirely by hand?, or
• Did you create a plastic or hardboard template and pattern router them with a trim router? or
• Did you use a small CNC to cut them?

For the edge bevel, can't imagine you got that precision with a hand file:

• Did you use a trim router, or
• Use a CNC?

Great work and thank you for any insight/tips!

JL

JL

 

[tarheelpwr]

Tagging in foe answers to the above. I’m really thinking about making a set of these.

 

[Jonathan Hemlock]

Looks like a worthy improvement. Ive looked at that knife many times but was always put off by the lack of grip surface.

I recently put new rosewood scales on a Sog s30v knife I’ve had laying around. Really made it into a keeper.

 

[ohoopee]

Great job on the scales. My favorite knife for my fly fishing trips and it
stays in my hunting pack with a havalon. I prefer the thin blade for most
of my camp usage.