A Brief Tutorial on the 550 Hilt Wrap
by a guy who's been there, done that and cleaned his knife afterward on the other guy's teeshirt.
On the 550 hilt wrap, the way it has to be done is:
A: Get an Ek 'bowie' or copy (best way, as it's one piece of steel with a removable hilt).
B: Grind the existing grip off (as in the case of Cold Steel rubber grips-the worst handles ever, by the way)
C: Grind down the stacked leather of the Ka-Bar type knife or the micarta of the Randall type (not lots of people like to do that to a Randall.....)
D: Or have finger grooves ground into the micarta such as those Randall can provide on the Model 14 or the Model 12-9 with a 14 Grind on the blade.
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weave pattern:
http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c292/eriktheblu/Fieldknife.jpg
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