Nathan the Machinist
KnifeMaker / Machinist / Evil Genius
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Sold out, thank you
This is 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 four knives in this sale.
These knives are heavy duty and ready for some serious hard core flogging.
The first two (brown) are $240, #3 (black) is $270 (sold). #4 is $320 (sold). $5 shipping in the USA.
If you want a knife without a sheath you can deduct $40 from the price.
The first two knives are “field grade”. They are “as machined” (with visible tool marks) and stonewashed to remove the colors from heat treat. They have brown micarta scales, #1 is machined in a scalloped pattern, #2 is machined in a diamond quilt pattern. $240 (sold)
#3 was ground to remove tool marks, stonewashed to remove heat treat color from the fuller and then finish ground on the primary bevel. It has black micarta scales machined in a scalloped pattern. $270 (sold)
#4 was made with the collector in mind. It is stonewashed and then finish ground to a finer grit on the primary bevels, the flats and the clip. It has a thinner grind, and a sharper thinner polished edge. It has black micarta scales machined in a diamond quilt pattern. $320 (sold)
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
If you would like to buy one of these, it would be very helpful if you could please follow these instructions to help me keep up with everything (I have other sales going on and I don't want anyone to fall through a crack).
1: State your claim in this thread. The first "I'll take it" gets it
2: send me an email (not a private message) to carothersknives at gmail dought com
The email should include what you are buying, your BladeForums handle (i.e.: "Nathan the Machinist"), your actual name, your shipping address and your paypal email address.
I will send a PayPal invoice to that email.
3. Pay the paypal invoice. Once it is paid, I will ship your order to the name and address you gave in your order email.
If you don't want to use paypal I also take cash, check or MO.
Thanks for looking,
Nathan
This is 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 four knives in this sale.
These knives are heavy duty and ready for some serious hard core flogging.
The first two (brown) are $240, #3 (black) is $270 (sold). #4 is $320 (sold). $5 shipping in the USA.
If you want a knife without a sheath you can deduct $40 from the price.
The first two knives are “field grade”. They are “as machined” (with visible tool marks) and stonewashed to remove the colors from heat treat. They have brown micarta scales, #1 is machined in a scalloped pattern, #2 is machined in a diamond quilt pattern. $240 (sold)
#3 was ground to remove tool marks, stonewashed to remove heat treat color from the fuller and then finish ground on the primary bevel. It has black micarta scales machined in a scalloped pattern. $270 (sold)
#4 was made with the collector in mind. It is stonewashed and then finish ground to a finer grit on the primary bevels, the flats and the clip. It has a thinner grind, and a sharper thinner polished edge. It has black micarta scales machined in a diamond quilt pattern. $320 (sold)
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
If you would like to buy one of these, it would be very helpful if you could please follow these instructions to help me keep up with everything (I have other sales going on and I don't want anyone to fall through a crack).
1: State your claim in this thread. The first "I'll take it" gets it
2: send me an email (not a private message) to carothersknives at gmail dought com
The email should include what you are buying, your BladeForums handle (i.e.: "Nathan the Machinist"), your actual name, your shipping address and your paypal email address.
I will send a PayPal invoice to that email.
3. Pay the paypal invoice. Once it is paid, I will ship your order to the name and address you gave in your order email.
If you don't want to use paypal I also take cash, check or MO.
Thanks for looking,
Nathan
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