DEK2

Lorien said:
I don't think of this knife as being tanto anything. If I were forced to characterize it accurately, and from my perspective, it's a dropped point with an angular belly. People are gonna say it's a tanto or tanto style, and that's cool with me. It's what it is, and it's that way for a number of very specific reasons.

Someone said at some point in time that the point where the two edges intersect is like a big serration. That has always struck me as a really interesting way to think of that feature of that design. For this project, I wanted a knife that COULD pry open a steel dishwasher, and cut things like one of the roots by pushing that intersection point into and through it. I've also cut a bit of firehose with it, and it works as intended.

DEK2 has two points, and one of them is double edged!


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this guy frikken loves me
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Just a note on the two edges of the DEK2:

I've been using a large "Mako" (in NitroV) by Paul ( CPE_Knives CPE_Knives ) with a similar profile since end of last year.

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I love the "big serration". So much so, that I asked Paul to make me another smaller one that arrived yesterday, this time in 10V:

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I really like the way the "big serration" bites, having a fully flat grind, and the fact that the edge before the serration is almost straight is an additional bonus.

Note that one of the Medford SAKs will be using a similar blade shape, they call it "Mono-tanto".

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