Mike Sastre
Custom Crafted Concealex Sheaths
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I've seen that happen. Just makes you want to shake your head and wonder.
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A first look at the Natchez Bowie
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well gentelmen--some here are goin to consider this a misspent youth mistake but Ive collected cs for over 20 yrs now..I use collect loosely...they all get used BUT...Ive never had a problem with a cs fixed blade knife that wasnt easily solved...my laredos perform campside chores amiably...light firewood etc..I own a buncha cs monsters..including the natchez..
it has been permanently reserved for one of those "omg..I really dont want to have to do this..grab the glock situations..
If ya really want a slobberknocker cs bowie the tried and true trailmaster or srk will do you proud in carbon 5
if you can get one now
i was glad to read that becker combat steel and carbon 5 were made by cammilus...
I lost the first camillus folder my grandfather ever gave me not long after his death...
kinda feel better about all that money I spent on cs carbon 5
it has been permanently reserved for one of those "omg..I really dont want to have to do this..grab the glock situations..
If ya really want a slobberknocker cs bowie the tried and true trailmaster or srk will do you proud in carbon 5
if you can get one now
i was glad to read that becker combat steel and carbon 5 were made by cammilus...
I lost the first camillus folder my grandfather ever gave me not long after his death...
kinda feel better about all that money I spent on cs carbon 5
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Guys,
I have just tripped over this thread...and though some med problems have kept me from following my dream of being a maker I would like to say something about the xray of the two tangs and the through tang style of construction.
It can be amazingly strong.
Even though it sometimes looks a bit wonkie.
I made a knife a few years ago...and I didn't like the way the natural canvas micarta handle turned out. So I decided to see if I could get the handle to fail..I was going to bust it off anyway.
I tried all kinds of weird stuf to get the handle to fail...but with good construction...
I was using a silver brazed all-thread on the end of the tang to connect with a stainless pommel...and then brownells acra glas as an epxoy....
I had to use a 3 pound sledge to break the hadle loose...it took 17 solid swings...with the handle laying on my anvil to bet the micarta to separate and then the tang/all-thread was still intact...so technically I could have wrapped the hell out of it to re-make an emergency handle.
However...I did work for a guy a while ago...who was welding the join betewwen stainlees and the mild all thread. He failed to correcty temper the weld...and a number of clients came back will handles sans blades. So it do still happen.
You gotta trust the maker to do his job right.
Shane
And if the truth be told and anybody wants to search the archives...you can find a blade of mine that made it to Afghanistan and back again....it got used to pry frozen mortar rounds out of their cases...and the through tang did not quit.
I think the thread was a Soldier's knife....I am sort a proud of that one.
I have just tripped over this thread...and though some med problems have kept me from following my dream of being a maker I would like to say something about the xray of the two tangs and the through tang style of construction.
It can be amazingly strong.
Even though it sometimes looks a bit wonkie.
I made a knife a few years ago...and I didn't like the way the natural canvas micarta handle turned out. So I decided to see if I could get the handle to fail..I was going to bust it off anyway.
I tried all kinds of weird stuf to get the handle to fail...but with good construction...
I was using a silver brazed all-thread on the end of the tang to connect with a stainless pommel...and then brownells acra glas as an epxoy....
I had to use a 3 pound sledge to break the hadle loose...it took 17 solid swings...with the handle laying on my anvil to bet the micarta to separate and then the tang/all-thread was still intact...so technically I could have wrapped the hell out of it to re-make an emergency handle.
However...I did work for a guy a while ago...who was welding the join betewwen stainlees and the mild all thread. He failed to correcty temper the weld...and a number of clients came back will handles sans blades. So it do still happen.
You gotta trust the maker to do his job right.
Shane
And if the truth be told and anybody wants to search the archives...you can find a blade of mine that made it to Afghanistan and back again....it got used to pry frozen mortar rounds out of their cases...and the through tang did not quit.
I think the thread was a Soldier's knife....I am sort a proud of that one.
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To say the least! That is just gross. Like you want some weirdos hair and dead skin cells all over your blade. I wonder if wandered over to someone selling handmade handkerchiefs and blew his nose in them. :grumpy::barf:
