Bizarre new design - "The Chaperone"

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Jason Cutter

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My first hollowgrind !! Peter Del Raso always told me I would eventually do hollowgrinds - here it is...

This started off when I was making a series of gardening knives, including one for my wife, as a lavender bush pruning knife. I got carried away with the Kerambit and Pikal designs and got working with some wooden models. Here is the first experimental prototype.

O-1 steel, 2.5" blade, deep hollowgrind, convex edge (ala Mr Hossum) 60-61RC edge. 8.5" OAL. "Monkey Bone" handle makes for a wide range of handle grips. Many utilitarian, many are also martial-inspired. I worked with a friend who is a martial arts instructor (wishes to remain un-named) who feels that the design is especially suited to Filipino and South East Asian martial blade techniques. The hook is suited for trapping manouvres and in reverse grip it indexes the point past 90degrees from the hand. It also makes it real easy to draw from the sheath. Oh yeah, it also works really well as a pruning knife...

Please comment and criticise. Thanks. Jason.

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My wife just saw the pics (over my shoulder) and sayed:
"Whow, looks ugly but COOL!"

I don`t agree with her this time, i think it´s HOT
 
I like it ALOT.

Some thoughts: Though I love convex edges, I'm not sure that you'd need it for this size knife. I would experiment to see how small you can get that hook down before losing functionality. Great idea but its shape is a bit discordent with the rest of the knife right now.
 
Very cool looking knife Jason. That handle is definitely different, but looks like it would work great for many different chores.
 
It certainly looks like something that has a great number of possibilities. A few of which would most probably inflict considerable damage on its intended victim.

But being the peace-loving kind, I would not want to dwell on this aspect. Its utilitarian possibilities are not attractive.

I suppose its shape and size can "grow" on a person but I would need to hold such a knife and put it to use before I really know that it is my kind of a knife. :)
 
Originally posted by golok
It certainly looks like something that has a great number of possibilities. A few of which would most probably inflict considerable damage on its intended victim.

But being the peace-loving kind, I would not want to dwell on this aspect. Its utilitarian possibilities are not attractive.

I suppose its shape and size can "grow" on a person but I would need to hold such a knife and put it to use before I really know that it is my kind of a knife. :)
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Golok, those are my thought exactly. Jason.
 
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