First Hinderer

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2006Vette

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Thought I'd share some pictures of my first Hinderer XM-18 3 " Custom flipper. First one I've ever seen or held and I'm totally blown away with everything about this knife. Anyone have any info on blade steel used?
 

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Wow, what an entre' First Hinderer. Nicely Done - She is a Beauty :thumbup:

May it bring many many years of Enjoyment.
 
Great knife. And, BTW, I've been researching steels for another Youtube video highlighting my XM-18, and the Duratech steel is a very good metal.. It has a staggering 20% chromium, and is thus highly corrosion-resistant, and has great tensile strength and edge retention. Not sure why Rick is turning to s35VN for the new 3.5" XM-18's (variety is the spice of life), but the Duratech 20CV is a great blade steel.
 
Thanks for all the congratualtions everyone! It won't be my last Hinderer since I still want to get one to carry. I'm curious how many custom knives are made each year compared to the production knife?
 
kryptonite_51 said:
Thanks for all the congratualtions everyone! It won't be my last Hinderer since I still want to get one to carry. I'm curious how many custom knives are made each year compared to the production knife?
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Carry that one until you get another! Even if as a secondary blade, it will grow on you and take primary spot quickly so the clock is ticking on that search for a second.

As for how many...who knows? It's dynamic. I'll give you these nuggets...at shows like Blade there are a couple lottery-style drawings over the weekend of the event. For each of the drawings, there's about say 40 knives. Of the 40 about 10-12 are customs. This is not a hard fact, but has some truth to it. Then add in that the production runs for direct order are of an undisclosed production number, and I'd say that it's a very small percentage of all XMs that fall into the custom category.
 
Need2Know said:
Carry that one until you get another! Even if as a secondary blade, it will grow on you and take primary spot quickly so the clock is ticking on that search for a second.

As for how many...who knows? It's dynamic. I'll give you these nuggets...at shows like Blade there are a couple lottery-style drawings over the weekend of the event. For each of the drawings, there's about say 40 knives. Of the 40 about 10-12 are customs. This is not a hard fact, but has some truth to it. Then add in that the production runs for direct order are of an undisclosed production number, and I'd say that it's a very small percentage of all XMs that fall into the custom category.
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Thanks for that info Need2Know. Certainly a small amount of customs out there. Every web site I've checked they're usually sold.
 
kryptonite_51 said:
Thanks for that info Need2Know. Certainly a small amount of customs out there. Every web site I've checked they're usually sold.
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No problemo.

They certainly are hard to find because the are so grail worthy. But they do pop up here and there.
 
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