Manix 2 LW Conversion Completed

[MadRookie]

Blade swop completed & FRN scales 100% functional with substituted S30V blade.





















Project well worth it - no wastage......

:)

[Brock O Lee]

Congratz that's a project well done!

[Deal4]

Nicely done! Thanks for sharing!
Care to share how long it took you as well as any hints for anyone that may want to attempt this themselves?

[MadRookie]

If you have the torx screws on hand, drilling out the old pins and swapping blades can be done within 1 hour easily.

The bugger is drilling out the old pins, as they spin when drilling, so have to overcome that.

:)

[Johnnie1801]

great job :D what size torx screws did you use?

[MadRookie]

3mm shaft diameter, 5.5mm head diameter & 12mm long.

Had to grind the length down to about 11mm.

Require a 15 size torx for fastening.

:)

[xceptnl]

A job well done Rookie!

[Evil D]

Bet it was fun getting the washers lined up with the pivot hole. Nice work.

[ASmitty]

Great Work! What do the new torx screws screw into? Since the backspacer is FRN, I would imagine you had to put something in there to hold them in place.

[Evil D]

Great Work! What do the new torx screws screw into? Since the backspacer is FRN, I would imagine you had to put something in there to hold them in place.

I assumed pillars like the Para 2 uses.

[MadRookie]

I assumed pillars like the Para 2 uses.

This is what I used.


http://www.kmts.co.za/Main.asp?D={C43D0 ... goryID=130




:)

[Donut]

Nice work Rookie. I might have to do that at some point.

You'd think some guy would buy a dozen of these and swap the blades and sell them for a profit.

[Evil D]

Nice work Rookie. I might have to do that at some point.

You'd think some guy would buy a dozen of these and swap the blades and sell them for a profit.

Considering you have to buy 2 knives to make 1 G10/s110v, you'd have to make a lot of profit since the price of the FRN/s30v can't be anywhere near $100 unless someone is just in love with that combo. I think it would be hard to make significant profit unless the G10/s110v version really sold for a lot.

[TomAiello]

Does anyone know if you can buy the skeletonized liners for the G-10 version anywhere?

It would be awesome to make a G-10 "lightweight" with the skeletonized liners.

[Donut]

Considering you have to buy 2 knives to make 1 G10/s110v, you'd have to make a lot of profit since the price of the FRN/s30v can't be anywhere near $100 unless someone is just in love with that combo. I think it would be hard to make significant profit unless the G10/s110v version really sold for a lot.

I think there's a lot of benefit to a FRN/S30V to make it worth $100 and enough benefit to make a G-10/S110V to make it worth $150 or more, so you'd pay $200 ish, do some work and sell for $250+.

A lot of people like S30V, and I don't think there's anything on the market that gives you that big of a S30V blade that is anywhere near as light weight as this.

[Donut]

Does anyone know if you can buy the skeletonized liners for the G-10 version anywhere?

It would be awesome to make a G-10 "lightweight" with the skeletonized liners.

No, that's why I was hoping to swap the blade onto my BD30P Manix. =\

[Evil D]

Does anyone know if you can buy the skeletonized liners for the G-10 version anywhere?

It would be awesome to make a G-10 "lightweight" with the skeletonized liners.

They do drop some weight but still noticeably heavier than the FRN version. We need a solid G10 with those tiny liners around the pivot like the FRN version has and nothing more. Give it a wire clip and it would probably be about the same weight or very close.

[Brock O Lee]

They do drop some weight but still noticeably heavier than the FRN version. We need a solid G10 with those tiny liners around the pivot like the FRN version has and nothing more. Give it a wire clip and it would probably be about the same weight or very close.

I agree... G10 is incredibly strong, and light weight. We just need those mini liners to hold screw threads. I wish there was more linerless G10 knives around.

[ASmitty]

I agree... G10 is incredibly strong, and light weight. We just need those mini liners to hold screw threads. I wish there was more linerless G10 knives around.

I couldn't agree with this more. G10 is such a rigid material that liners are more a hinderance than a helper IMO. I'd love to see more linerless G10 as well. And if you use a wire clip, you really don't even need the mini-liners for clip screws.

[MadRookie]

Considering you have to buy 2 knives to make 1 G10/s110v, you'd have to make a lot of profit since the price of the FRN/s30v can't be anywhere near $100 unless someone is just in love with that combo. I think it would be hard to make significant profit unless the G10/s110v version really sold for a lot.

To me it was not about profit margins.

I did it to build a knife to my liking - even at a loss.

My converted Manix 2 G10 S110V version is being pimped as we speak..... will keep you informed....


:)