In Taiwan, these things are everywhere. It's typically a knife used by students to sharpen pencils. You can get a dozen for around 3 dollars. I'd keep one in my wallet just to have blade on me for instances where I may need a knife
A pair of pliers quickly takes out the rivet holding the blade in
Blade and handle separated
I chose a standard hook and a deforest diamond from Southord, as well as an L rake from a wallet set I got off Budk.
Decided to include a 0.008" feeler gauge to use like a peterson mini knife.
Ground down the handles of the pick to fit into the knife handle and drilled a hole that was the same size as the one in the knife handle
Here's a dry fit with a 4mm screw
Testing of it's functionality. Feedback sucked until I tightened the nut and screw, but that fixed the problem.
Small enough profile to fit my wallet
This is the profile I ground into the feeler gague. The idea is to leave more material than I need on this so that as it inevitably gets bent and chewed up with use it can be ground back and keep using it.
Testing of the feeler gauge/decoder. It works pretty much just as well as the Peterson mini-knife
Riveted together with a 3/16th aluminum pop rivet
Finished product! Perfect for my EDC.
