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Back in 2008, i collaborated with Peter Carey on a knife for my brother's 13th birthday.
What i wanted in this folder were:
- a 2-inch blade that would not get him into any trouble in school or at camps if he carried it
- a framelock
- a non-threatening looking wharncliff blade shape which would not scare sheeple
- a design with 1 big hole and 3 small holes, symbolizing his 13th birthday in the same way a cake would have 1 big candle and 3 small ones
- lanyard hole
- tip up clipped (never really understood how tip down and a butt-end landyard hole works)
I came up with the design, which i later changed to incorporate a flipper as suggested by Pete, and Peter Carey built the knife. Eventually, this was the final outcome.
Fast forward to 2011, and i've been carrying my own "Bulus" since 2008. I've sort of come to like blades that are around 3 to 3.5 inches in length, and so i tweaked the design a little to incorporate a 3.5" blade, changed the blade shape a little to have more belly, but yet retain a wharncliff -drop look (not sure how to describe the top).
A month ago i woke up to an email by Pete letting me know that the stretched-Bulus has been completed! Here are some pictures having had it for a few days
. For my 2008 "Bulus", i had it with a 154-CM blade, in a Tidepool Timascus framelocked handle, but for the 2011 stretched-Bulus, it sports a Damasteel Munin blade, with Moku-Ti scales and Moku-Ti pocket clip, and is linerlocked.
Here are some pictures of the new "s-bulus" design.
And here's a picture of the Bulus & the Bulus 3.5
By the way, in case you're wondering why i named it "Bulus", My brother Paul spent close to 6-9 years in Africa as a kid, and "Bulus" is his name "Paul" in Hausa, the language they spoke there.
What i wanted in this folder were:
- a 2-inch blade that would not get him into any trouble in school or at camps if he carried it
- a framelock
- a non-threatening looking wharncliff blade shape which would not scare sheeple
- a design with 1 big hole and 3 small holes, symbolizing his 13th birthday in the same way a cake would have 1 big candle and 3 small ones
- lanyard hole
- tip up clipped (never really understood how tip down and a butt-end landyard hole works)
I came up with the design, which i later changed to incorporate a flipper as suggested by Pete, and Peter Carey built the knife. Eventually, this was the final outcome.
Fast forward to 2011, and i've been carrying my own "Bulus" since 2008. I've sort of come to like blades that are around 3 to 3.5 inches in length, and so i tweaked the design a little to incorporate a 3.5" blade, changed the blade shape a little to have more belly, but yet retain a wharncliff -drop look (not sure how to describe the top).
A month ago i woke up to an email by Pete letting me know that the stretched-Bulus has been completed! Here are some pictures having had it for a few days
. For my 2008 "Bulus", i had it with a 154-CM blade, in a Tidepool Timascus framelocked handle, but for the 2011 stretched-Bulus, it sports a Damasteel Munin blade, with Moku-Ti scales and Moku-Ti pocket clip, and is linerlocked.Here are some pictures of the new "s-bulus" design.
And here's a picture of the Bulus & the Bulus 3.5
By the way, in case you're wondering why i named it "Bulus", My brother Paul spent close to 6-9 years in Africa as a kid, and "Bulus" is his name "Paul" in Hausa, the language they spoke there.