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Randall's Adventure & Training
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Ok, we've had photo contests, survival kit contests, giveaways, and just about everything else you can imagine when it comes to interacting with the customer. Now, it's time all of you have to work a little harder to get involved with our next "interaction."
We're going to build a new knife that will launch the end of 2009 and you guys are going to help us design it. Here are the "rules" to design around:
1) Cannot be hollow ground
2) Must use micarta handles (your choice of texture and color)
3) Will be 1095 steel (coated or un-coated - just remember that 1095 rusts when un-coated)
4) Must be "normal" fixed blade knife (no folders, machetes or axes)
5) Thread has to stay on focus when it comes to the knife design. Idle chatter will be deleted since it fogs up the thread and what we are trying to do.
This is what we suggest (not require) so we know you are truly interested in a working concept, instead of just throwing out random ideas: draw something on paper and post up your design. Doesn't have to be professionally drawn. A sketch will do fine.
After we get the designs and go over them then we will make a judgment (with the help of all the members here) on what we want to make as a production knife. There will be prizes involved in this process somehow, and the knife design will be attributed to the members of the RAT Cutlery Bladeforums crew.
Everyone is always saying how they would like something that fits what they feel is the perfect knife, so here's your chance.
Jeff
We're going to build a new knife that will launch the end of 2009 and you guys are going to help us design it. Here are the "rules" to design around:
1) Cannot be hollow ground
2) Must use micarta handles (your choice of texture and color)
3) Will be 1095 steel (coated or un-coated - just remember that 1095 rusts when un-coated)
4) Must be "normal" fixed blade knife (no folders, machetes or axes)
5) Thread has to stay on focus when it comes to the knife design. Idle chatter will be deleted since it fogs up the thread and what we are trying to do.
This is what we suggest (not require) so we know you are truly interested in a working concept, instead of just throwing out random ideas: draw something on paper and post up your design. Doesn't have to be professionally drawn. A sketch will do fine.
After we get the designs and go over them then we will make a judgment (with the help of all the members here) on what we want to make as a production knife. There will be prizes involved in this process somehow, and the knife design will be attributed to the members of the RAT Cutlery Bladeforums crew.
Everyone is always saying how they would like something that fits what they feel is the perfect knife, so here's your chance.
Jeff
