Today I recieved my Neil Blackwood Haybusa. It is a 3.5 inch double ground D2 neck knife with cord wrap over adonised titanium handle scales.
I ordered this knife in January after talking with Mr. Blackwood, Dr. Lathe on bladeforums. I went to his site, looked at this page:
http://blackwoodknives.com/tanto.htm
and went ga-ga. the titanium handled knives, the top picture just looked beautiful.
I ordered mine, but I had it modified to have a thinner tip for self defense applications, rather than general utility.
Neil, Great Job on everything. The kydex is very slim and sturdy, the knife's grind is even, sharp, easy to maintiain on a spyderco 204 and the handle grip is great.
I did some test cutting on a cardboard box. I opened the box so that one of the lid leaves was propped up, set the box on the counter and swung a #1 at it. If the corner of the box flies off and the box stays on the counter you know that your technique was proper and the knife was sharp.
A corner of the box leaf, well, more like 1/2 of the leaf went flying and the box barely moved.
I tested some other materials and found almost no resistance. I had to see if I cut cause I could not feel if I did.
Now I need to buy a cord wrapped American Ninja.
Great Job, keep doing what you are doing.
I'm getting an American Ninja in the future.
I ordered this knife in January after talking with Mr. Blackwood, Dr. Lathe on bladeforums. I went to his site, looked at this page:
http://blackwoodknives.com/tanto.htm
and went ga-ga. the titanium handled knives, the top picture just looked beautiful.
I ordered mine, but I had it modified to have a thinner tip for self defense applications, rather than general utility.
Neil, Great Job on everything. The kydex is very slim and sturdy, the knife's grind is even, sharp, easy to maintiain on a spyderco 204 and the handle grip is great.
I did some test cutting on a cardboard box. I opened the box so that one of the lid leaves was propped up, set the box on the counter and swung a #1 at it. If the corner of the box flies off and the box stays on the counter you know that your technique was proper and the knife was sharp.
A corner of the box leaf, well, more like 1/2 of the leaf went flying and the box barely moved.
I tested some other materials and found almost no resistance. I had to see if I cut cause I could not feel if I did.
Now I need to buy a cord wrapped American Ninja.
Great Job, keep doing what you are doing.
I'm getting an American Ninja in the future.
