Nathan the Machinist
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All sold, thanks.
The fighters are a heavy duty combat knife designed as a stabbing weapon and built to tolerate extremely rough use in demanding environments.
The handle is ergonomically designed for a standard forward, reverse, saber and pinch grips for an average to relatively large hand. The tang is internally skeletonized. The scales are 3D sculpted CNC machined canvas micarta. The blade is made of ¼” Latrobe A2 steel with a heat treat that has been optimized to maximize strength and toughness. The blade has a swedge grind that creates distal taper and deep fullers that, together with the skeletonized tang, create a relatively light weight package (11.7 oz) that is supremely well balanced with thoughtful and deliberate distribution of mass that gives it a surprisingly light and lively feel in the hand without sacrificing tip strength.
The steel, Latrobe A2, is a high quality domestically produced high carbon tool steel (not a stainless steel) with high impact and torsional toughness. It also exhibits good edge stability and edge retention which make it a good choice for rough use. In this application it will tolerate abuse such as aggressive prying, punching holes in sheetmetal, cutting iron wire and even chopping through cinderblock. Being a 5% chromium steel it is not stainless, but has better corrosion resistance than something like 1095.
Specs:
Latrobe A2 steel, tested 59 HRC, .250” thick at ricasso
Total length 12.75”
Edge length 7.5”
Weight 11.7 oz
Extra grippy 3D machined canvas micarta scales
Black oxide treated 18-8 stainless steel fasteners
Spec Ops Combat Master sheath can be hung from a belt, mounted to all duty belts, is M.O.L.L.E. compatible and jump certified.
There are two fighters and one D2 skinner in this sale.
Rather than just take my word for it I made a video this afternoon to illustrate the unusual durability of this knife:
[video=youtube_share;yf4SfmqeGLE]http://youtu.be/yf4SfmqeGLE[/video]
The D2 skinner is my skinning knife pattern. It is hard (HRC61) and thin and cuts like a laser beam and holds an edge very well. It has a thin high (past tangent) hollow grind that was taken to .013" before sharpening. It was sharpened by hand on oil stones to a fiendishly sharp tree topping acute edge.
I've been perfecting D2 for cutlery applications for years. This has been no trivial matter. I've developed a heat treat that gives D2 fine edge stability approaching that of a simple steel, but with the abrasion resistance and near stainless properties D2 is known for. It is my opinion there is no better D2 than this.
The first fighter in an ACU sheath is “field grade”, “as machined” (with visible tool marks) and dark stonewashed. It has black micarta scales machined in a diamond quilt pattern. $240 Sold
The second fighter in a black sheath is “field grade”, “as machined” (with visible tool marks) and dark stonewashed, then ground on the primary bevels. It has brown micarta scales machined in a diamond quilt pattern. $255 Sold
The D2 skinner has Cocobolo scales and a basic belt finish. It comes with a basic vegetable tanned leather pouch sheath treated with bee's wax. It is extremely sharp. $165 Sold
Shipping in the USA is $5.
If you want a fighter without a sheath you can deduct $40 from the price.
If you want the skinner without a sheath you can deduct $20 from the price.
These knives are unusual because they are completely machined, not ground. I do this in my shop on industrial CNC machine tools. A WIP thread documenting their construction can be found here: http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php/1048443
I take paypal, cash, check or MO.
Thanks for looking,
Nathan
The fighters are a heavy duty combat knife designed as a stabbing weapon and built to tolerate extremely rough use in demanding environments.
The handle is ergonomically designed for a standard forward, reverse, saber and pinch grips for an average to relatively large hand. The tang is internally skeletonized. The scales are 3D sculpted CNC machined canvas micarta. The blade is made of ¼” Latrobe A2 steel with a heat treat that has been optimized to maximize strength and toughness. The blade has a swedge grind that creates distal taper and deep fullers that, together with the skeletonized tang, create a relatively light weight package (11.7 oz) that is supremely well balanced with thoughtful and deliberate distribution of mass that gives it a surprisingly light and lively feel in the hand without sacrificing tip strength.
The steel, Latrobe A2, is a high quality domestically produced high carbon tool steel (not a stainless steel) with high impact and torsional toughness. It also exhibits good edge stability and edge retention which make it a good choice for rough use. In this application it will tolerate abuse such as aggressive prying, punching holes in sheetmetal, cutting iron wire and even chopping through cinderblock. Being a 5% chromium steel it is not stainless, but has better corrosion resistance than something like 1095.
Specs:
Latrobe A2 steel, tested 59 HRC, .250” thick at ricasso
Total length 12.75”
Edge length 7.5”
Weight 11.7 oz
Extra grippy 3D machined canvas micarta scales
Black oxide treated 18-8 stainless steel fasteners
Spec Ops Combat Master sheath can be hung from a belt, mounted to all duty belts, is M.O.L.L.E. compatible and jump certified.
There are two fighters and one D2 skinner in this sale.
Rather than just take my word for it I made a video this afternoon to illustrate the unusual durability of this knife:
[video=youtube_share;yf4SfmqeGLE]http://youtu.be/yf4SfmqeGLE[/video]
The D2 skinner is my skinning knife pattern. It is hard (HRC61) and thin and cuts like a laser beam and holds an edge very well. It has a thin high (past tangent) hollow grind that was taken to .013" before sharpening. It was sharpened by hand on oil stones to a fiendishly sharp tree topping acute edge.
I've been perfecting D2 for cutlery applications for years. This has been no trivial matter. I've developed a heat treat that gives D2 fine edge stability approaching that of a simple steel, but with the abrasion resistance and near stainless properties D2 is known for. It is my opinion there is no better D2 than this.
The first fighter in an ACU sheath is “field grade”, “as machined” (with visible tool marks) and dark stonewashed. It has black micarta scales machined in a diamond quilt pattern. $240 Sold
The second fighter in a black sheath is “field grade”, “as machined” (with visible tool marks) and dark stonewashed, then ground on the primary bevels. It has brown micarta scales machined in a diamond quilt pattern. $255 Sold
The D2 skinner has Cocobolo scales and a basic belt finish. It comes with a basic vegetable tanned leather pouch sheath treated with bee's wax. It is extremely sharp. $165 Sold
Shipping in the USA is $5.
If you want a fighter without a sheath you can deduct $40 from the price.
If you want the skinner without a sheath you can deduct $20 from the price.
These knives are unusual because they are completely machined, not ground. I do this in my shop on industrial CNC machine tools. A WIP thread documenting their construction can be found here: http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php/1048443
I take paypal, cash, check or MO.
Thanks for looking,
Nathan
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