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The BladeForums.com 2024 Traditional Knife is ready to order! See this thread for details: https://www.bladeforums.com/threads/bladeforums-2024-traditional-knife.2003187/
Price is$300$250 ea (shipped within CONUS). If you live outside the US, I will contact you after your order for extra shipping charges.
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Anyone remember what the knife on the lastest Tacctical Knives cover is called?
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Check there site out. www.tacticalknives.com
The latest edition should show on their opening page..
The latest edition should show on their opening page..
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they are the Wilson Combat knives. Pretty good but dont get caught up in the hype, all that does is raise prices.
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The Wilson Tactical Model 2 is a neat looking fighter.
==> Caution though.
Either the Wilsons have invented a tremendous new technique for heat treating D2, or they don't (yet) understand that D2 at Rc 62-64 is simply too hard, and will be pretty brittle and prone to chipping in even normal to heavy use... and could actually be prone to breaking in HALF if:
1. You were unlucky enough to get one of the knives that got heat treated even in some parts of the blade at the Rc64 upper end...
2. and you dropped the knife just right on very hard pavement, etc.
Hey, maybe they are onto a super cryo treatment that improves toughness at Rc62-64, but I doubt it. They may learn this lesson through product returns. The Wilson's are absolutely new to the knife mfg business.
Bill Wilson is, assuredly, a very top notch pistolsmith and has built an excellent shop with talented 'smiths in-house. Wilson has a great policy around his 1911 handguns in terms of customer satisfaction, so I suspect they'll do right on these knives if problems crop up.
Bob Dozier is perhaps the foremost proponent of D2, partly because this is a workhorse steel and is cost effective for working knives, and mostly because he's mastered the heat treat (there may be others as good).
Dozier's knives are never quoted above Rc61-62, and that is on his smallest blades. His normal blades are spec'd to Rc 60-61. There is a reason for this...be assured.
I was disappointed Janich didn't say much other than "...several points higher than the average field knife. I therefore anticipated some problems when it came time to sharpen it." I suspect Janich knows about brittleness at these Rc levels and just didn't say anything... or maybe he doesn't know. This hard a blade means diamond stones for sure, my preference anyway.
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==> Caution though.
Either the Wilsons have invented a tremendous new technique for heat treating D2, or they don't (yet) understand that D2 at Rc 62-64 is simply too hard, and will be pretty brittle and prone to chipping in even normal to heavy use... and could actually be prone to breaking in HALF if:
1. You were unlucky enough to get one of the knives that got heat treated even in some parts of the blade at the Rc64 upper end...
2. and you dropped the knife just right on very hard pavement, etc.
Hey, maybe they are onto a super cryo treatment that improves toughness at Rc62-64, but I doubt it. They may learn this lesson through product returns. The Wilson's are absolutely new to the knife mfg business.
Bill Wilson is, assuredly, a very top notch pistolsmith and has built an excellent shop with talented 'smiths in-house. Wilson has a great policy around his 1911 handguns in terms of customer satisfaction, so I suspect they'll do right on these knives if problems crop up.
Bob Dozier is perhaps the foremost proponent of D2, partly because this is a workhorse steel and is cost effective for working knives, and mostly because he's mastered the heat treat (there may be others as good).
Dozier's knives are never quoted above Rc61-62, and that is on his smallest blades. His normal blades are spec'd to Rc 60-61. There is a reason for this...be assured.
I was disappointed Janich didn't say much other than "...several points higher than the average field knife. I therefore anticipated some problems when it came time to sharpen it." I suspect Janich knows about brittleness at these Rc levels and just didn't say anything... or maybe he doesn't know. This hard a blade means diamond stones for sure, my preference anyway.
[This message has been edited by rdangerer (edited 06-20-2000).]
[This message has been edited by rdangerer (edited 06-20-2000).]
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knows and didn't say anything I am guessing. Janich seems fairly smart from the few things I've read of his.
Glad you discussed this in more detail rangder, I'm a semi-serious poster, have too many hobbies to sit and follow everything one one of them, and stuff like this is always good to know.
Glad you discussed this in more detail rangder, I'm a semi-serious poster, have too many hobbies to sit and follow everything one one of them, and stuff like this is always good to know.