RogersPrecision
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Here are a few pics of the stock configuration.
Here are the 'after' pics.
Here are the 'after' pics.
A customized Al Mar...pics!
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Valkman
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Very nice machining and finishing! Way better than original! 
Piedmont Plinker
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What model is that?
That goes waaaaay past "customization" and into a complete rebuild reusing the blade.
Looks like a SERE 2000 Auto.
Looks like a SERE 2000 Auto.
Sun195
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Nice - did you do that work?
RogersPrecision
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Yeppers, I did the modifications.
The Al Mar in stock configuration just was not quite what I wanted...but it was close. The pocket clip carried the knife very low in the pocket, flush with the top of the pocket seam. Made for good concealment, but a difficult grab.
Also the shape of the butt offered little purchase to the fingers on a draw.
I removed the stock clip and salvaged one from my worn out Benchmade 2500and relocated it lower on the knife. I then recontoured the butt, added serrations front and rear, milled grooves into the top and bottom of the scales, reworked the sliding/ratcheting lock to more positive detents both on and off and coated the knife with Titanium Blue Ceracoat.
As you can see from the finish wear, the knife is carried constantly. Even while crawling around under my old Chebbie 4x4.
The pics below illustrate another Al Mar that I finished very, very early this morning and a Benchmade that I coated for a client.
Believe me when I say that reassembling that Benchmade was no tea with the freakin' queen! That thing had to be put back together like some Chinese jigsaw puzzle.
I've got a few more of those Al Mars that I plan on reworking to match a few 'spec' guns that I have in the works. I'll prolly send those off to 'The Tourist' for one of his incredible sharpening jobs!
The Al Mar in stock configuration just was not quite what I wanted...but it was close. The pocket clip carried the knife very low in the pocket, flush with the top of the pocket seam. Made for good concealment, but a difficult grab.
Also the shape of the butt offered little purchase to the fingers on a draw.
I removed the stock clip and salvaged one from my worn out Benchmade 2500and relocated it lower on the knife. I then recontoured the butt, added serrations front and rear, milled grooves into the top and bottom of the scales, reworked the sliding/ratcheting lock to more positive detents both on and off and coated the knife with Titanium Blue Ceracoat.
As you can see from the finish wear, the knife is carried constantly. Even while crawling around under my old Chebbie 4x4.
The pics below illustrate another Al Mar that I finished very, very early this morning and a Benchmade that I coated for a client.
Believe me when I say that reassembling that Benchmade was no tea with the freakin' queen!
That thing had to be put back together like some Chinese jigsaw puzzle.
I've got a few more of those Al Mars that I plan on reworking to match a few 'spec' guns that I have in the works. I'll prolly send those off to 'The Tourist' for one of his incredible sharpening jobs!
You think that's a nightmare, try rebuilding one of Butch Vallotton's SERE 2K scale release conversions. That's make the BM seem like tea.
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