A different type of folder for me

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Just finished this up. I wanted to do something a little different and it just kinda came together. It's not the ususal cookie cutter folder that is being made. I kinda designed it around a toothpick pattern, but it is a linerlock.

Blade is 2-5/8in long made of Delbert Ealy crackle pattern damascus. Flat ground with false edge. Mirror polished 416ss bolsters and honey jigged bone scales. Gold anodized liners and rope fileworked backbar. No thumbstud or nail nick, there is enough blade exposed when closed to open it with 2 hands but close it with one. Overall length is 6-1/4in.
Thanks for looking,
Chuck

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Nice. It does look very different than the liner locks i am used to seeing. The handle looks like you can get a very secure grip and that it would be very comfortable to hold. I find the no thumb stud/nail nick look to be very appealing.
 
That is a nice one! I like the rope pattern also....thanks for the picture....


"Hunters seek what they [WANT].., Seekers hunt what they [NEED]"
 
Pretty knife. Reminds me of a CRK Mnandi with bolsters, and jigged bone. Now here's an idea, try and make it a S. African style "flipper" (a la Des Horn & Co.).
I threw this concept out on the CRK forum about 8 months ago and never got a response. If you hold a Mnandi with both hands, you can open in like a flipper, but that sort of defeats the purpose of a flipper! If you could get the blade to protrude about a 1/16 to 1/8 of an inch beyond the bolster, and filed it the right way, I bet it would work, and I bet it would sell. Part of the problem with doing this in the Mnandi is the blade is a little too thick. Since you've got a bolstered linerlock design, you could make the pattern with all kinds of different handle material from micarta to blacklip pearl. Now you've got a one-hand, truely ambidextrous knife, that can go from an EDC to a showpiece depending on how the buyer wants to configure it. Just a thought.;)
 
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