Compass in the cap of CRK knives...

OK folks, here's my stupid question of the day! Do all CRK (fixed blade/one-piece) knives come with the compass in the butt cap or not? If not can you order a butt cap with one in it from CRK?

On a related note, while I own a bunch on knives already, I just bought my first CRK (a NIB Project 1) from one of the guys on the 'buy/sell/trade board'. So, I will probably have plenty of odd and ‘newbie’ type questions on CRKs in the near future… All of my knives are ‘users’ and the Project 1 is purported to great ‘field knife’ so guess I will see how it goes…

TIA,
The FNFALFAN




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They do not come with a compass as CRK states that they have yet to find one of acceptable quality. I picked up a couple of .5" (+/-) Marbles brass, dry compasses and placed then into the caps of a couple of my One Piece Range Knives.

BTW, Congrats on the P1; it is my favorite field knife.

Happy Hunting.
 
Check the trading post for rnpollard, he had some mini compasses for sale. I got mine from him, good guy to deal with.
 
While it is obviously quite handy to have a little compass in the knife, there is something to be said about magnetism. Don't forget, you expose an itsy-bitsy tiny little needle to a pound of solid steel all around. While this might be ok for a short while, the steel will most definitively affect the compasses performance in the long run. Also, the movements of the compass inside the handle while choping or hacking won't do the compass very good either. Alternatively, I keep a tiny compass togther with a photon microlight on a leather string aroud my neck while the handle is stacked with matches. I use leather and not paracord since the leather will break at a certain tension and thus not kill you if you get tangled up somewhere whereas paracord might. Furhter, I found the battery in the photon light small enough not to effect the compass.
 
While the handle and blade are steel, of course, the butt cap is aluminum. My Marble's .5" compass operates just fine epoxied all the way down inside the aluminum butt cap.

Professor.
 
I still have several left. They are $15.oo each shipped. I take personal checks if I have dealt with you before or if you don't mind the hold my bank puts on them. Otherwise a Postal Money Order is the way to go.

Thanks for the kind words Geraldo.

Rick

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I would be careful with relying on the compas bearings when you have it in proximity to a mettalic item..Any mettalic object, will in my experience, distort the reading on the compas. To see what I mean, take your compase and let the needle oreint to Magnetic North. Once is stops, take your knive and bring it up close to the compass, you should notice the needle move in either direction..So having a compase in the handle might not be the best place to have one if your not planning on getting lost..Good luck.
 
Good point about the metal. This compass is, however, very small and I would only rely upon it give or take a coupe of points one way or the other anyway.

As for the metal, I instert the compass into the cap with the face of the compass facing towards the blade. I then remove the cap and use the now inverted cap to hold the compass for me. I keep the cap/compass a distance away from the knife. The cap is mad of aluminum.
 
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