My Charge knife, a work in progress

[Poncho65]

Finally got around to doing something with my fancy new battery powered Dremel

Pics of the new Dremel to kick things off





       

[Poncho65]

Now to the modding

My original plan was to add a glass breaker bit and new outside scissors I was going to remove the outside opening diamond file and put a diamond file from a PST II. This would have made the bit driver swap to the correct side

I used the diamond bit in this pic to enlarge the holes of the scissors and the glass breaker bit Actually I think I may have used 3 total to do this and part of why my old Dremel may have burnt out





but alas it was not meant to be well, at least not with these scissors

I have some pics of the glass breaker bit and it's placement then we can talk about the scissor fail

I had marked what needed to be grinded off



a pic with the scissors marked as well



I am going to go ahead and show how the scissors and spring looked a little before and after but not all



almost there



Some fitting of the glass breaker looking pretty good now





I had to grind the marked spot to make it line up with the front part of the knife but also to let it come forward enough for the hold to line up

Ended up pretty happy with the glass breakers bit and how it looks it adds a little weight to the knife but so far it has not been very noticeable in my pocket

Some different angles of it after I got the knife back together

[Poncho65]

Now on to the reason I couldn't get these particular scissors to work they grinded down just fine and I thought I could squeeze them in by using a thinner washer but it all boiled down to them being to thick to go in place of the file

I do have another set from another MT knife and I may try those but I am not sure if they are thin enough either

So for now I am happy to have added another function to my Charge knife without really having to change it

We will just say that the outside scissor mod is to be finished later if nothing else

[blackswanbazaar]

That looks amazing!


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[Poncho65]

Thanks blackswan

[Don Pablo]

Just saw this thread. Nothing can take away my SAKs, but these are pretty cool too!
It looks like you're really enjoying yourself with them.

[Poncho65]

Thanks Pabs yes, I still carry my Executive  but these knives are great to pair with any MT no matter how many or few tools they have

[McStitchy]

Oh my... they get better and better 

Excellent job Sir   

[Poncho65]

Thanks Stitchy  I am pretty happy with them and still daily carry after this many years

[Adam5]

When you get one tuned to what you need, it is awesome. And while using a Charge as the basis for these knives is more expensive than using a Wave or a Multiforce et al., you do get the higher quality blade and a little style   

[Poncho65]

  and thanks Adam The Charge handle is a little wider as well and makes (for me) it easier for me to hold it as a knife

That toolset has really been so useful to me and although I was hoping to tweak it with the outside scissors, the toolset would have remained the same so, I have found what works for me just wanting to try a different variation of the same thing

[ModificatYon]

Hi Poncho65,

Very nive grinding work on your glass breaker, for the scissors I've done it on my Wave, I had to widen the slot to make it fit, the tolerance on the Charge might be a little too tight, and the titanium scales are less flexible I suppose.
You didn't try to integrate the pen and tweezer from a SAK in your glass breaker after all?

[Poncho65]

Hi Poncho65,

Very nive grinding work on your glass breaker, for the scissors I've done it on my Wave, I had to widen the slot to make it fit, the tolerance on the Charge might be a little too tight, and the titanium scales are less flexible I suppose.
You didn't try to integrate the pen and tweezer from a SAK in your glass breaker after all?

Thanks Mod actually, I completely forgot about about toothpick and tweezers slots I may tear it apart again and see about doing that sometime

[Poncho65]

Receiving a DM from a member made me realize that I forgot to mention the tool that I got the glass breaker bit and the scissors from

It was a Sunbird MT knife but not seeing this on Aliexpress at the moment, the one that matches it is a Xiaomi multitool knife

I do have some video of this and still haven't edited it and put it on YouTube yet

[MohiLond]

Thank you for sharing.

[Poncho65]

No problem