Design Your Dream Traditional

R Mac

R Mac

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If you could design your dream traditional folder or fixed blade knife, and have it made to your specs, what would it be?

Here is a list of design elements, features, and materials I’ve thought of and my resulting Pièce de résistance. Feel free to add whatever strikes your fancy:

Pattern -Traditional or your own hybrid design
I’d start with a Stockman type pattern
Style:
Seahorse, Serpentine, or Dog Leg
Closed Length:
4-1/4”
Number of Blades:
3
Blade Type(s):
At the moment I’m quite enamored with the Wharncliffe blade, so that would be
the main blade. It would have a profile and swedge similar to a Northwoods
Norfolk. Secondary blades would be a Pen and a Crown Lifter.
Blade Steel & Grind:
Stainless Steel & Flat
Back Springs:
Stainless Steel
Bolsters / Liners / Pins:
Bronze or bronze plated steel / Bronze or brass / Bronze or bronze plated steel
Handle Material / Color:
Couple of thoughts here. Jigged bone, maybe something exotic, with some
type of non-traditional jigging. Maybe Carbon Fiber or a textured metal similar
to a SAK Alox. Since I’m using a bronze finish on the bolsters and pins I’ll
have to get my wife, who is an interior designer, to pick the right color that will
compliment the bronze.
Embellishments:
The blades would have a satin finish. The etching would be the same as my
avatar, but in gray tone. The tang stamps would be ‘R Mac’ with ….. wait for
it ….. ‘The Knife’ underneath. The bolsters would have beveled ends and sides.

There you have. Taking orders as of now!
 
Medium size serpentine trapper, Autumn saw cut bone covers, S35V clip point and a wharncliff, stainless bolsters and springs.
 
For me it would be a schrade 930T wrangler (clip and sheepsfoot on a serpentine frame) with some decent stainless blades (154cm or 440c) and smooth bone handles.
 
Barlow Pattern
Toms choice style
Closed Length - 4 1/2"
Blade steel - 420HC
Number of Blades 2 - Straight Back Blade 3", Mini - Wharncliffe 2 1/2" (Both with long pull + rounded spine)
Blade grind - Flat grind
Back springs - Stainless steel
Bolsters (hammered finish), Liners, Pins - Copper
Handle Material - Jigged Redwood Burl

:D:thumbup:
 
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I would go half-congress frame.
Main Blade- Warncliffe.
Secondary- Small Clip.
Handles- Dark, almost coffee brown.
Brass Liners and Bolsters.
1095, Full flat blades.
Long Pulls on the blades.
 
I would go with a serpentine frame stockman very similar to the Dixie stockman. Cali clip main with a wharncliffe secondary opening at the same end as the main and with a clip blade profile very similar to the Lanny's clip style blade at the other end. All long pull with liners being made of stainless steel. I want the blades to be 154cm, 440c or s30v, not carbon, this would be my work knife. Throw on some rounded and pinched rat tail steel bolsters. Cover it in some nice burnt stag and you have a knife I would give an eyeball for.
James.
 
Ok, I would go for a pattern similar to the old tear drop pattern with an EO notch, spear main blade, pen secondary. The liners would be brass, the springs and blades would be 1095, nickel bolsters, Amber color for the bone, jigged of course, in peachseed. Yukon shield and nail nick pulls. 3 1/2 in closed length!
Perry😀
 
Barlow with screw pivot (pivot only)

main blade of 1095 a la Schrade

secondary of any good steel heat treated to file hardness, OK, ne-mind, a small metal file as a secondary
The point is a secondary which can scrape tough stuff and de-burr metal.

Razor primary and a tough, hard secondary
 
They already made mine. :thumbup:

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I didn't even have to design them.
 
This will be easy.
My favorite EDC is the Queen Railsplitter but it is semi stainless. So when I'm fishing it's a stainless blade, either a Kabar stockman or Indian River Jack.
So the one ideal, holy grail, perfect knife would be an all stainless Railsplitter.

CPM154 blades
Stainless liners
Stainless Bolsters
Stainless springs
Stainless pins
Smooth Bone handles
 
For me, a stockman with the spey blade gone. In it's place would be a combo blade/tool like on a SAK bantam. Serviceable for flat and phillips screws, as well as opening a cold brewski after the job is done.

Add some nice stag with lots of bark and popcorn and I'd be happy as a clam in the mud.

Oh yeah, NO SHIELD on that nice stag!!!
:D
 
Eureka/serpentine 4" closed
Damascus Wharncliffe main blade
Short Spey
Short pruner blade
Punch same end as the Wharncliffe
Shadow pattern with Muskox covers
Coined liners

Possible just a Whittler, without the pruner blade.

But while I'm dreaming, why not dream big!!
 
GEC 82 with a sheepsfoot in place of the wharnie with the nick on the same side as the main. Punch on the opposite side

Basically a 4 1/8" Schrade 899.
 
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