Stopped out to Fred's last week and he showed me a new fluting pattern he will be using on all bolts from this point forward. According to Fred, while doing the last run of bolt fluting he ran into a problem with the availability of tooling to produce the "fishnet" pattern, and had to find a viable alternative. This is what he calls "dragon scales".







This pattern replaces the old fishnet pattern as the old-style cutters to properly cut that pattern have been discontinued by the manufacturer.