BK2 - jimping - why not standard issue?

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EseeDownUnder

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Hey All,

I'm curious as to why this has never been considered. I think it's one of only two most needed mods to do on your 2 besides stripping.
If it's a cost factor then it's understandable but in my limited knowledge of metallurgy I don't think it should affect RRP that much?

I'm not a dissatisfied customer just curious...........;)
 
I'm assuming cost savings, I mean look at how inexpensive this awesome knife is, I paid $58 for mine.

Compared to $140ish for the esee 5 which is essentially the same thing but with jimping and micarta grips.
 
EseeDownUnder said:
Hey All,

I'm curious as to why this has never been considered. I think it's one of only two most needed mods to do on your 2 besides stripping.
If it's a cost factor then it's understandable but in my limited knowledge of metallurgy I don't think it should affect RRP that much?

I'm not a dissatisfied customer just curious...........;)
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Well, some of the BKT's have it, but its attached to a thumbramp.

Cost during manufacture isn't really much of a consideration, because CNC doesn't care about what its doing, just cares about the doing.

I will say this, Ethan isn't much of a fan of jimping on the spine. I'm not either, because it creates a weak grip. We can argue that if you wish, but physics is on my side.

I call it the Jeff Randall/Choil theory. If it has it, I'll use it. Same goes for jimping. I put jimping on my user BK2, because it looks cool. That's it. I like the way it looks. I don't use the jimping on my BK2. I don't like choils on knives (bite my ass, Trade :D) but if they are there, I tend to use them. The ESEE 3/4/6 all have choils, and I have all of them. I use the choil on them, because its there. If I had my druthers, they wouldn't. Jeff, Mike and Rowen make a helluva knife, better than most, and the choil works well with the design.

They have jimping too. :D

Moose
 
moose got it right. After jimping my two I thought it would have a great improvement in performance. But really I don't use it. actually the most useful jimping I've done has been to the front of the spine, near the tip on the 11. Adds to control with my finger on the spine. Best for me for control when inside a whitetail. This would be a welcome factory addition but can also see why it wouldn't work for everyone (finger length, placement etc)

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i wish sometimes it was as easy to remove jimping, as it is to add it.

mostly though, i find, that i want to use a knife as designed, to get into the head of the guy that designed it.

after all, if the designer wanted jimping, there would be jimping.

knives designed by committees (govt requirements esp), generally suck :)

knives made by people who use what they make? tend to be good knives... though Ethan uses knives that y'all don't have access to yet. being the designer has advantages.
 
Bladite said:
i wish sometimes it was as easy to remove jimping, as it is to add it.

mostly though, i find, that i want to use a knife as designed, to get into the head of the guy that designed it.

after all, if the designer wanted jimping, there would be jimping.

knives designed by committees (govt requirements esp), generally suck :)

knives made by people who use what they make? tend to be good knives... though Ethan uses knives that y'all don't have access to yet. being the designer has advantages.
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Yar.

Moose
 
I had thought about jimping my 2 last night as I did my 14, but hesitated. I wasn't sure if it would create enough of a weakness while batoning to negate doing it. I know the 2's a hearty gal and it would depend on the depth of the jimping for sure, but it just seemed wrong. I felt more comfortable doing my 14 just because it's a lighter duty blade. I had never thought about it creating a weaker grip as Moose says, but I can see that now.
 
I don't really believe in jimping for grip - but I do like it as a tactile way to index where I am on the blade. Esp on 11/14
 
Murphnuge said:
I had thought about jimping my 2 last night as I did my 14, but hesitated. I wasn't sure if it would create enough of a weakness while batoning to negate doing it. I know the 2's a hearty gal and it would depend on the depth of the jimping for sure, but it just seemed wrong. I felt more comfortable doing my 14 just because it's a lighter duty blade. I had never thought about it creating a weaker grip as Moose says, but I can see that now.
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Not gonna create weakness. If you can pound that knife blade with a stump of wood hard enough to break it in two, I'll buy you a new one. Jimping or not.

Don't drop a 30' pine on it, but a baton you can swing by hand won't cause that knife anything but boredom.

paperairplane said:
I don't really believe in jimping for grip - but I do like it as a tactile way to index where I am on the blade. Esp on 11/14
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Indexing in the dark is what I had in mind, plus, it looks cool as hell, but really, I thought about it after a while, and how could anyone mistake the way a BKT handle is supposed to feel, even in the dark.

I can over think stuff sometimes.

Moose
 
moosez45 said:
Not gonna create weakness. If you can pound that knife blade with a stump of wood hard enough to break it in two, I'll buy you a new one. Jimping or not.

Don't drop a 30' pine on it, but a baton you can swing by hand won't cause that knife anything but boredom.





Moose
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Good enough for me Moose, look for a jimped up 2, soon.
 
No kidding you buncha over-achievers! I've spent the last 30 min looking for a metal scribe to mark my jimp lines. Not a single one in the plant, wth?!
 
I for one am glad there is no gimping on the BK-2. I don't hate gimping but also don't find it to be really necessary.
I plan on getting a Bk-9 soon and the gimping will likely be the first thing to go.
And if they ever planned to add it they should do it like on the BK-7 and 9, that way people who like the blades but don't want gimping can simply grind it off!
:D
Of course if gimping is your thing well more power to you, it just doesn't really do anything for me.
I personally blame Nut'n'fancy for the current gimping fetish!Lol!
I generally like his videos but he does tend to drone on about gimping way too much!
 
Yeah, jimping def looks cool on a 2. But now you got me thinking about practicality of it all.
The only concern I have it getting the markings straight & evenly spaced. I would hate to stuff up a perfect knife!
Also the bare metal would be exposed after filing so would prob need another patina for protection.

Derek - in your pic it looks like you jimped a 2 still with it's black coating on:p
 
Shhhhh ! Don't give any ideas, someone might put one of those buttfugly thumb ramps on it. :barf:
 
I used my BK2 without jimping for quite awhile, and it works. I wanted some sort of means to add a little grip to my sweaty mits when I am using it with my thumb on the back, and the jimping I did achieved that spectacularly. Is it for everyone? No, but I think that there is a definite use for it, and it does in fact work if done right. Notice mine are all the straight down flat kind, not the half rounds like you see on the stock 7, 9, & 10. That half round style just doesn't catch my thumb well enough to work, especially with sweaty hands.

To the comments on my jimping, thanks! It didn't come out perfect, but it is good enough for me!
 
Jimping to me isn't something I really like on a knife for it's use. It looks cool, but I really could care less if it is actually there or not. On the ESEE5, it looks good, but I don't actually see the functionality of it.
 
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