What’s up guys. Tried my second sak mod today...just wanted to remove the blade layer from and old Wenger, but the first time around peening was the hardest part for me (never did it before). And I remember reading that the peening had to be more precise on Wengers bc the pin heads need to fit into indentations on the inside of the scales. This time around I realized that if I used a Dremmel grinding disc to grind down half a layers worth of the brass pins (1st pic), the grinding would push brass to the sides to start forming the mushroom head that I had trouble forming the first time (2nd pic). This made the rest of the peening MUCH easier. Passed a file across the pins a few times and the scales popped right on...snap seems good. If your good at peening the grinding step is probably a waste of time,but if your not then this is really helpful. Also figured I’d try to show how the pins looked after peening bc it definitely isn’t perfect but seems to be adequate...so this is what good enough looks like (3rd pic)
I also reused the knife’s pins this time around, rather then starting with new pins like I did with my first mod. Having one side of the pins with the factory heads, instead
of my crappy peening, made peening the other side MUCH easier. But to have this option, disassembly has to be done neatly with no bending or twisting.
The Dremmel grinding disc was also a big help during disassembly. Ground the head of the brass pins as close to the liner as I could, then gently pried the liner up pin-by-pin, the thin layer of mushroom head that was left on the pins gave way very easily. Found this to be a huge time savings and nothing got bent whe I removed the layer...as opposed to punching the pins, drilling them out and filing,which is what I did for my first mod and I had to apply much more pressure/twisting to get the tools and liners off.
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