If you lived in Golden Colorado you could work a few hours a week at Spyderco assembling knives.That would help with your OCD condition.I always check your videos when I am going to take a knife apart the 1st. time.Your Spyderco Smock video saved me grief with tiny second detent ball.I would have lost that for sure.Thanks Nick.

The Spdiyderco Sprint: Do it yourself because you'll never buy a pre-sold-out factory sprint

That's amazing... your factory second LW was centered... so was your Frankensprint... "so we can assume these are the best quality controlled factory seconds..."

2 suggestions for ya! 1. Instead of loctite, use Vibra-tite VC-3. Not only is it advertised to be used in plastic as well as metal, but it’s also removable, reusable without reapplication, and most of all ADJUSTABLE!!! And 2. I’ve tried a lot of different alcohol applicators and the best 2 I’ve found are, 1st- The squeeze style bottles used in tattoo shops with the fine applicator style tips, and 2nd- a travel size spray bottle. I picked one up at the grocery store that actually locks and has an adjustable spray pattern. And best of all, it was only $1. Just a few thoughts on what I’ve found to work the best for me. Figured I’d pass them along to a fellow knaf guy!!!

Nick at 8:30: Does thread locker work well in plastic scales Nick at 9:00: God I hate babies

My second most favorite Nick video, behind the review of his Dad's EDC pouch. It's a gem! Congrats on "creating" the ultra-limited edition, Nick!

The fact that your hack worked shows how tight the tolerances are held by Spyderco. If they hadn't been held in a tight range the cumulative tolerance stack could have prevented the hack. If Spyderco ever makes the maxamet version P3lightweight I would buy one.

Yes! Excellent. I've wanted to do that with the S35VN. You have inspired me to experiment.

Absolutely 150 freakin percent my favorite reviewer...watches, knives, doesn’t matter. I am “tickled freakin pink” whenever I watch one of your videos. Keep it up Nick, see you over at the Spyderco Forum...love when I see a comment over there from you too!!

I did this to my hap40/vg10 df2's. it also went fantastic and now I have a non-obnoxious hap40 df2, and a bright orange vg10 df2 that never gets lost on the healing bench.

At first I thought you said you were "relishing this like a freaking aardvark." Which was strangely compelling.

Well congrats Nick. Glad you got what you wanted out of both.

If Spyderco would produce this combo, I’d be a buyer. Nicely done 👍👍🔪

Truly, one of your best videos to date :)) 😀

This was a super fun video

YOURE the goat Nick

He’s gone mad, mad genius

Great idea and congrats. Very cool mod.

Nice work

God, I'm so happy for you, Nick. My favorite is the Native 5 and I would love to come across aftermarket scales to swap. Good for you on the maxamet para 3

"oh look at causes birth defects in California luckily I'm already born so that shouldn't be an issue" Nick shabazz 2019

I don't own a Spyderco yet but this makes me want to buy both of these knives and do this. Thanks for the journey Nick

You are a madman of the best possible variety. With me, the swap was a PM2 K390 BBS blade into the dark red handle of a PM2 DLT exclusive.

Thanks for the video for blade swapping on the Spyderco knives. On to swapping out the Rex-45 lw blade into my Titanium scales !

Great video Nick, keep up the good work! Watching this video makes me want to purchase a Para 3 in S35VN and do the swap as well, might be worth a try!

You created something interesting. Not just the knife, but interesting content as well. Knife land and youtube are both better places because of it.

Sweet🍬steel choice.....I swapped a BD1N & S30V and never had an issue actually the BD1N turned out better & use it everyday💪🏼. Factory 2nds huh....You brilliant man💡!

Nick, .6 of an ounce lighter, deep carry wire clip, better placement of the unnecessary lanyard hole, Excellent modification! I have the P3 in Maxamet and spent and extra $20.00 on a deep carry Ti pocket clip. I hated the stock clip. (hot spots and the knife would ride out of my pocket when sitting down) Thank you very much for the video : )

Just the video I needed. I have a modded PM3 lightweight with an acid etched blade that I wanted to put in a sark blue G-10. Looks like I’ll try it out.

I love the compression lock. Once I tried it I was hooked. No other EDC for me if it doesn't have compressions lock.

What an amazing idea. Groundbreaking

Very interesting swap. Thanks Nick! I was curious if the lightweight could be swapped with say a DLC sprint. (Before they released a dlc lightweight). My personal favorite bladeswap is the Knifeworks peel ply carbon with DLC M4 blade from bladehq. 😈

This video was especially useful to me since I was thinking about FrankenKnifing myself a personal EDC using the Para 3 Light and the scales and screws from a regular, however I can see now that the liner inserts are not the same and my plan would fail expensively. I wonder how much the inserts would cost as a replacement.

No matter which knife I buy, the Maxamet Para 3 is still my go to. Maxamet does require very little maintenance. I add a drop of cooking oil on each side of the blade, and then just wipe it off. Give it a good wipe. Enough of a film stays behind to protect the blade from orange acid and such but not enough to gunk it up. I think I only honed it on a ceramic rod once a year with pretty steady use. The edge retention is just great.

Great video. I'm just looking into getting a spyderco para 3 lightweight and this is a great idea for a future swap. Where does one look into getting or purchasing a factory second? Thank you

Hey Nick, you mentioned you were going to follow up with tour thoughts on maxamet steel. I’m curious as to what you think but I can’t find any other videos of yours on the subject.

Shabazz I’m surprised that you like the FRN light weight handles. I personally do not. However, I had to jump at the new light weight salt model Para 3 in Magnacut. So now you solved my problem and I’m just going to flip out the blade with one of my G10’s and then I can add flytanium’s lotus scales. Thanks mate.

I swapped my DLC S35VN blade into my LW handle. It's great!

This deserves extra! 👍👍👍👍👍

Damn you lucky dog. That's legit. Something only my man nick would do

I’ve got one: a CPM 20CV blade with Maxamet-gray G10 scales… The Maxamet frame got Spyderco/Flytanium/Playge scales!

With the alcohol, mine comes in a little spray bottle with a finger pump. It disperses well that way. With the cue tips, i just pop the end of one against the nozzle and slowly pump and always get the appropriate amount.

I would have guessed you would do this with lc200n. I better see a review on your opinion of maxamet.

Are blades interchangeable in other models, will this same swap work with the manix2?

Very cool

It's alive!!!

Well done. Can you tell me the name of the oil you are using? Thanks.

Fantastic idea.

Hey Nick, can we get your opinion of maxamet, after having some time with that frankenknife??

i did this about a month ago... my blade didnt fit properly and it wouldnt smoothly deploy due to the pivot pin hole being a little different and i wasnt about to file the hole out to smooth it. results may vary ;)

I'm looking for a para3. Would prefer black/blackG10 but a custom Shabazz PM3 is a pretty good sales pitch. Let me know.

Hey nick, oddball question for you: if i remember correctly, you work in some kind of research with a university. Do you have any thoughts on the increasing costs of college and the potential return on investment for incoming students?

Anyone know if same kinda swap would work with manix2 lightweight and manix2 in g10?

Followed your lead and swapped the BD1N on the LW with the S45VN on the G10 para 3 I have. No plays but can’t seem to center S45VN on the LW…any tips?

You deserve to be happy Nick after all you’ve done for knife nerds. So far I love the Maxamet Para 3 but I do wish it had a wire clip. What else is better about the Para 3 LW?

I switched my P3LW blade with my Cutlery Shoppe Para 3 with CTS XHP....working really well....

Also, the moment where you started joyfully laughing upon seeing that you had a Maxamet Para 3 LW was priceless.

How does one go about getting a factory seconds knife? Theres a spyderco that I've been having my eye on for years but money has been an issue, however I don't really mind the lack of warranty due to spyderco having a great track record.

I was wondering about this. I want to get aftermarket scales onto a knife with a steel that is available only on a lightweight knife, e.g. Spy27. I would swap the lightweight knife blade onto a G10 frame, and then put aftermarket scales on that (most aftermarket e.g. Flytanium scales only fit the G10 version). I’ve never tried swapping a blade! I hope it works!

Does this work with the sage? I like the sage blade shape but the para 3 lw scales haha

now that u have the maxamet blade in the para 3 u can send it to me lol iv never had a spyderco with maxamet steel but hopefully to have one some daygreat video i enjoyed it

Congratulations on the birth of your Franken Knife

Add when the 2020 catalog comes out this is page 21 &22

Great idea Nick! it's at home "custom" .Aside from the extreme Laci Szabo knife, this is only the second Spyderco I like! A Franken-Spyder?

Are you trying to tell us that the Para 3 LW is gonna be available in Maximet ?

When will it be on EDC BID?

I have both these knives. I'm so torn as to if I want to swap mine.

"That ill do" x2! Like one of the Good Guys! Lol.. Man your voice is amazingly weird/signature/narrative cute lol. I picture you look like and elf like, gansta Hitman hobbyist.. I need a GPS app w your voice navigation.. Like Joe pesci and Jim Skelton's cousin type KZfaq guy, keep up the good work fella.

Awesome good to know

We need a Frakenknife out of a Z-Hunter. :)

Nice 1👍

Niceee! I’d buy that bd1 para off you. 😂

I give you Nick Shabazz, lord of the pun. 😃👍

Very nice idea Nick. It's a very nice thing.

Congrats!!! Successful surgery! Now, as for what to do with the BD1N, why not a give away?

Now we just need Aramis to make some Carbon Fiber Para 3 lightweight scales and we'll have the best combo!

Hey Nick. Since you like the LW so well any possible chance you have the scales and liners and hardware that would be needed to change a LW INTO a Liner and G10 model!!? I just got a para 3 LW in SPY27 and really want the grey Maxamet scales but I need them and liners. Would you like to trade!? Or could I purchase them from you?

I'm the opposite, the regular Para 3 is one of my faves, but I can't stand the FRN on the LW!

Should have done this with the m390 dlt version

Dude they should really make a "shabazz special" para 3 lightweight in maxamet I would buy it

I've seen staining like that, or at least that *looked* like that, on some knives and generally just some steel wool takes it right out. I use 0000 grade to keep from leaving scratch marks, and it usually does the trick. I'm sure something less fine wouldn't mess up the finish too much anyway, though. Sometimes I use it on washers to clean them up and smooth out the action on cheaper knives, too. Edit: I have never seen those pumpy booze bottles 😶 that's awesome. Must have. I'm going to have to consult MY fiancé haha

I want to do the Frankenstein mod too!

Does this mod have any advantage over a standard Manix 2 Maxamet?

It would be really cool if you did a collaboration with a knife maker KZfaqr to design a knife

Can I have the BD1N Para 3?

I love the fact youtube auto-captions “edge retention” as “aunt retention”. I love retented aunts.

Nice

You crazy 🤯 the native is the best knife Spyderco makes

Hmmm interesting. I thought about doing this with mine but honestly I like the g10 better than the FRN but it is tempting.

Ok... Where can I buy spydercos factory seconds???

My maxamet Manix rust spots quite quickly even though it's coated in Frog Lube. Damn.

You are a wizard sir

If you want to get rid of that Spyderco you don’t want, you can send it my way. 🙂

Hey Nick. Suppose you have a Para 3. Then you swap the blade for a Maxamet. Then you swap the handle for the FRN (lightweight) handle. Then your lockbar breaks and you have to swap liners. Is this still the same Para 3 or a different knife? And if it's a different, at which point did it turn from the same knife to something else?

Have you tried 99% isopropyl alcohol? I picked up a bottle just for giggles, not thinking that it was going to be a vast improvement over 91%, but the evaporation time is muuuuch shorter and it feels like it leaves surfaces cleaner. I've converted myself.

Someone should compilate your jokes in a single video ❤️

I’m pretty sure they sell a maxamet para 3 lightweight now

Personally i use a small spray bottle container for my isopropanol.

Nice custom sprint job there

Great job/ video 👍😅