Chinook : give it a drop-point

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marty123

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I also looked at the Chinook in a store. An interesting design, and very well-made. But, the blade pattern is too specialized for all-round utility, which is something I usually look for in a knife. What the Chinook needs is a more utilitarian blade pattern, such as drop-point. So, when is the Chinook Drop-Point coming out : same great handle, lock, and steel but now in a drop-point?
 
ahhh, grasshopper, if the chinook were to change to a drop point... it would cease to be a chinook:)
 
"Blade pattern is to specialized to be an all around utility"....Kidding right?

I have carried mine every day for at least 6 months and have yet to find something it can't do. All that AND a wicked defensive knife. Nuff said.
 
I agree with Marty that it would be cool, and with Maximus that it would no longer be a Chinook.

Now, make it a polished VG-10 drop point with a 5" blade...Wow.
 
Without the clip-point, the Chinook would be just another tank.

Doesn't the Wegner fit that bill?
 
I'd say that the Wegner doesn't really fit that bill. If the Wegner is a tank, the Chinook is an aircraft carrier. The large double liners and monster lockback set it apart.
 
One of the basic design features of teh Chinook is the clip point. It allows for back cuts and it also allows for a very pronounced sweep to the curve in the cutting portion of the blade, making for a good skinner or other cutter. As the man said, if you take away the point, you may have a nice knife, but you won't have a Chinook.
 
Now that I'm over the [COLOR=orange-red]shock[/COLOR] of reading the opening post, the idea of a drop point lock back tank folder like the Chinook is not such a bad idea.
hmmmmmm....
I LIKE IT!! :cool:
 
I' ll agree that a dropped point may be more useful in terms of utility. But then the Chinook was created as one of Spydercos Martial Blade Craft designed models, correct? So if it had a drop point blade, as a few have already commented, it wouldn' t be a Chinook any longer!

Hmmm... perhaps with a persian (recurved!) style blade...;)

Nakano
 
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