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





















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

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Congratz that's a project well done!

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?

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.

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

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.

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A job well done Rookie!

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

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.

ASmitty wrote: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.

Evil D wrote:I assumed pillars like the Para 2 uses.

This is what I used.


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




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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.

Donut wrote: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.

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.

Evil D wrote: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.

TomAiello wrote: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. =\

TomAiello wrote: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.

Evil D wrote: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.

Brock O Lee wrote: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.

Evil D wrote: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....


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