Five pins instead of Four?

The answer I received:

 

Hard to see here but the triangle

 

in the movie "Predator"....the 3 little red laser beams that came from the Alien or whatever it was

pin out like that

 

Phil, I have not seen a predator pin out in 1.5 years...why is that if i may ask?

 

there is no specific reason. we just haven't. ill get Kyle to do one soon.

 

Alot of the pin layout you see is my department, and along side with "just keeping it fresh" i think the diversity is nice!

 

Allen

 

Prolly Allen's and Andy's

 

Cool thread here folks.


Whose department decides to pick blade stock for a given pattern/knife? (HINT HINT: Like a piece of 3/32" for a Bushnub, which we haven't seen yet btw)

Thanks

 

Andy, Allen & me based on what we have in stock when it's time to scribe out a new batch

 

The 5th pin, Trinity pinout, predator pinout, soda pop pinout, and the ankle chain pinout came from the idea of the beauty mark pin. Most of these were utilized on very few knives for different reasons. I wanted to make the pinout assymetrical. The beauty mark pin was the answer. The idea was inspired by Sophia Loren's beauty mark. (My Grandad had a crush on her and we watched a lot of her movies together.) I really like the beauty mark pin, but I had to refund a couple of folks who bought the knives used and thought it was just an ugly mistake. My warranty didn't cover that, but I refunded them anyway. So I decided to go with a 5th pin in a geometrical pattern so that no one confused the pin with a mistake. By then I was a bit nuts for pinouts. I did the ankle chain pinout and soda pop pinouts with the idea that I could actually fit handle with overlapping pins. This was one mistake I made as an artist, I let opinion influence me away from these. I should have continued to make them this way occasionally. That was my fault. There are only a couple of each of these two pinouts. And so, going back to patterns I created the Trinity pinout as a symbol of my faith. That is an idea I really like. I think this pinout really makes a handle look fantastic. Someone on the crew suggested the predator pinout, and I thought it was neat.

Maybe I will go back and do some more of the special pinouts and even some beauty marks. I shouldn't have backed off those ideas so quickly.

 

I'd love to see the anklechain pinout and soda pop pinouts if anyone has pictures.

Thanks for the input, Andy. It's always interesting to hear the story behind the work.

 

There is a lot of creative decision making that determines where the leading edge of the scale is positioned. This is Cody's (AKA La Chain) job. He take the blanks I have ground and Kyle has glue prepped and fits them with handles. The front of the scale depends on scale material and what you want shown, bolsters, pin location, position of the grind, etc. All these factors are hand work, and Cody shapes the leading edges based on these. I think he is very good at this. I've been noticing lately that I don't have any little things I would have done differently. Each time a new person gets this job, its a back and forth process between myself and that person to learn how I want them set. Good job Sir La Chain.

 

Soda Pop







Trinity

Trinity mosaic

Predator aka Patrick's Clover


beauty mark


Cinco de Mosaic

Ghost Predator...

Ankle Bracelet

I added that one from Andy's post if someone ever wants to reference back to this post.


Still looking for others