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Nice stryker Will. Big Grin

Makes me want more handles for the knives I already have from you. Wink
 
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Can you do overlays for a 42? With countersunk holes to match-up with the original? Now that would be super-glow-in-the-dark-cool! Big Grin


What about just filling in the counter sunk hols a little bit with the moonglow. so when you flip it it would be rings of glowing light... If you ever been experienced then you know what I'm talking about... if you do the whole handle you get solid disks


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Can you do overlays for a 42? With countersunk holes to match-up with the original? Now that would be super-glow-in-the-dark-cool! Big Grin


What about just filling in the counter sunk hols a little bit with the moonglow. so when you flip it it would be rings of glowing light... If you ever been experienced then you know what I'm talking about... if you do the whole handle you get solid disks


It could be done but not with Moonglow. Moonglow is a solid acrylic that comes in sheets like G10 or Micarta, it has an evenly dispersed glow pigment so it glows very bright, but it's a bit brittle.

That said the only realistic way of doing a glow 42 would be to use a hard epoxy, and I really just don't know if it would be durable enough for this application. I use glow in the dark epoxy inlay in a lot of what I do but it's usually set into G10 and I also try to encase it on as many sides as possible so it has something to stick to. Epoxying to a synthetic versus epoxying to Titanium are two different things, part of the reason it sticks so great to G10 is it actually melts the resin from the plastic a little, but it can't do that to the Ti, so the glow material may just fall out under the stress of flipping.

Not saying it can't be done, I'd love to give it a try but with the cost of a 42 I'd be too worried I'd ruin my knife. I'm not ballsy enough to try it for the first time on anyone else's knife but mine.


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