24 piece Take Down Fighter

Steven Kelly

Steven Kelly

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I built this knife for the seminar I gave,with Dave Lisch, at the Blade Show West last month. I wanted to push the limits of a take down. It comes apart in to 24 parts. Needless to say, I said a few swear words while building this one..
Thanks Mitch Lum for the awesome photos!!!

Thanks for looking,

Steve
 

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all that gadgetry! I'm geeking out man!
Sweet knife:thumbup:
 
Steve Nice job It was fun to do the seminar with you. And your take down shows just how far the art can be taken.
 
Steve, I've always heard there's some good weed growing in the bad lands of Montana. By looking at your take down fighter I'd say you found the Mother Load! :D I figured all take downs were more or less the same. You just opened my eyes with this one. You could open your own parts department. You make a Great Knife!

Papa Smurf........
 
That's just SUPER!

Really pushing the limits. Love the concept. :thumbup:

That composite display is wonderful. Not easy at ALL. My hat's off to Mitch, too. :eek:

Coop
 
Raymond Richard said:
Steve, I've always heard there's some good weed growing in the bad lands of Montana. By looking at your take down fighter I'd say you found the Mother Load! :D I figured all take downs were more or less the same. You just opened my eyes with this one. You could open your own parts department. You make a Great Knife!

Papa Smurf........
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Hey Papa,

You and I both know that if there were any good weed up here, you'd have already found it long ago!!!!!!!!:eek:

Thanks for the compliment...
 
Thanks for the compliments everyone!!!!

Coop,

Mitch really blew me away with the way he did the composite.. I asked him if he could get shots of it in different stages of disassembly. I had no idea he was going to do it in 1 photo...

Karl,

The blade is 5160 the guard and sub-hilt are damascus, the spacers in front of the sub-hilt are ironwood and n/s, the handle frame is 5160, the handle slabs are stabilized fossil walrus jaw bone, the pins are all 416 stainless, the screws are gold plate and the tang nut is brass... I think that's everything!!!!!!
 
Really kewl takedown Steve. as complete, I'm wondering if the space between the two guards might not be a bit larger for ease on the fingers? Mitch always does a fabulous job with his images. Great combination.

Coop -- I'm just wondering re the difficulty aspect of this image. Unless I'm totally off base, it would seem to me that this image is only a two image composite. I'm looking at this as being an single image of the upper left pieces and the lower right pieces being one image and then the complete knife image being laid into the space between the two corners. You guys are a lot better at doing digital images than me so I just wondered if I missed something?
 
would be really interesting, you could cut the exposed screws down to two.

Best Regards,

STeven Garsson
 
Steve I like this fighter. Sorry I missed your time slot at BW. It would have been interesting.
 
Ohhh Steve you really bumped it up a notch, wow that is a cool construction method! LOVE the nut IN the frikkin handle like that!!!!!
 
Kohai999 said:
would be really interesting, you could cut the exposed screws down to two.

Best Regards,

STeven Garsson
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Steven,

I have thought of a whole bunch of different and some new variations for the next one of these I do. Dovetails would be a really cool variation. Maybe even rear dovetails. That would eliminate all the screws and there would only need to be a couple of alignment pins blind set into the handle scales...

Now you have my mind going again!!

Thanks!!!!!!!
 
Murray,Keith, Bruce and Sam

Thanks for the comments and compliments. I really value and appreciate them!!

Steve
 
Steven -- I just got to looking at the knife again and a couple more things come to mind. I guess before the photography was my main point of interest but here is a couple of items for consideration. I'd like to see the two guards look the same and also the silver spacers (or SS) might look nicer if they were a tad narrower. Just a couple more ideas.
 
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