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Rescaling a Camillus MC-1 flight crew knife

Posted: Tue Oct 18, 2022 12:44 pm
by millern
Disassembled MC-1 ready for new “patriotic” scales.
Disassembled MC-1 ready for new “patriotic” scales.
Scales cut to length and ready to measure and mark.
Scales cut to length and ready to measure and mark.
Scales drilled and roughly inletted.
Scales drilled and roughly inletted.
Beginning the “fitting” process.
Beginning the “fitting” process.
Shaping using belt sander and Dremel attachments.
Shaping using belt sander and Dremel attachments.
More shaping and fitting.
More shaping and fitting.
End result, shown with an original MC-1
End result, shown with an original MC-1
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Re: Rescaling a Camillus MC-1 flight crew knife

Posted: Tue Oct 18, 2022 12:53 pm
by edge213
Dude, that looks great!

Re: Rescaling a Camillus MC-1 flight crew knife

Posted: Tue Oct 18, 2022 1:12 pm
by OLDE CUTLER
It certainly does look great. Is the handle material a gunstock laminate?

Re: Rescaling a Camillus MC-1 flight crew knife

Posted: Tue Oct 18, 2022 1:20 pm
by Meridian_Mike
VERY nice work!

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Re: Rescaling a Camillus MC-1 flight crew knife

Posted: Tue Oct 18, 2022 3:11 pm
by millern
The material is red, white and blue G-10. (I wish the blue had been more of a navy. )

Re: Rescaling a Camillus MC-1 flight crew knife

Posted: Tue Oct 18, 2022 8:20 pm
by OLDE CUTLER
millern wrote: Tue Oct 18, 2022 3:11 pm The material is red, white and blue G-10. (I wish the blue had been more of a navy. )
The reason I am asking is I have a Boyd's laminated gunstock reject that a buddy gave me and am thinking of cutting it up for knife scales, the laminations are about 1mm thick. I was concerned that if the laminations were too thick, it would not look good when scaled down to a knife scale size. How thick are the laminations on your G10 shown?
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Re: Rescaling a Camillus MC-1 flight crew knife

Posted: Wed Oct 19, 2022 12:57 am
by millern
I estimate that the laminations in the g-10 material was about 1/2 the width of the laminations in your gun stock material.

Re: Rescaling a Camillus MC-1 flight crew knife

Posted: Wed Oct 19, 2022 2:06 am
by 1967redrider
Excellent work, the laminate really makes it pop.

Re: Rescaling a Camillus MC-1 flight crew knife

Posted: Tue Nov 01, 2022 7:28 pm
by glennbad
Nice work, those knives deserved a better set of covers!

Re: Rescaling a Camillus MC-1 flight crew knife

Posted: Sat Nov 05, 2022 2:39 am
by millern
Thanks for the compliments!