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Good afternoon friends. I have a design that was inspired in part by the ergos, style, and performance of my favorite large Spydercos, the Endura, the Resilience and the Military. Now that I have this new design pretty much dialed in, I am looking for a catchy name for it. It would be cool, though not strictly required, if the name could somewhat reflect the Spyderco inspiration, but not necessarily in a blatant way like "Enduritarience" or something equally boorish. And of course, please no innuendos or anything remotely family unfriendly. But before I ask your help, here is a little background on the design to give further context to my request.
I have always been interested in the Temperance 2, but felt it was a little too large and heavy for EDC, so this knife is kind of like my attempt to fill that void for myself. A pivotal moment in this emergence of this design was when I experimentally modded a Spyderco Resilience into this:
That knife quickly became my favorite to use, carry and look at, even when I still had more expensive Spydercos, in more exotic steels, with fancier locking mechanisms. As such I consider it the proof of concept for the design ergos, performance and aestethics. Eventually I decided to make a fixed blade version of this knife in some thin AEB-L I had in stock. Here is the alpha prototype:
I called it the "Skinny Slicer", which is surely not a long term name for this design! This knife belongs to a valued customer, to whom I also ask: @Hurrul since you own the prototype, and because I know you are keen with the use of linguistics, I would love to hear any suggestions you also might have for this design's new name.
Next was the beta prototype stage, in 15N20 (which I hand profiled from one of my universal blanks, hence the slightly odd hole placement). In these images you can see the versatility in grip options:
The specs on the one above are:
Steel: 3/32" (.093") 15N20
Overall Length: 8 1/2"
Cutting Edge Length: 4"
Weight: 4.4 oz (same as a Spyderco Military)
The next stage, of course, is production. I have a small number of these coming, one in .0136" LC200N, and two in .118" AEB-L. The production version of these will have jimping available, as the blank shown below in LC200N, and blade lengths may be 3 3/4" - 4" (and of course they can be made shorter at customer request):
So there is the background on my new design, and I truly have no idea how much interest there will be in it, but of course my hope is that people will want it, and I know that as a knife user myself, one of these in stainless steel will soon be on my hip at all times.
So my mind has been drawing a blank (no pun intended) on what to call this one. What do you think would be a good name??
Thanks!
P.S. Whoever's design name suggestion I choose will receive 15% off their first purchase of this knife, whichever version they choose.
The base price for the first run AEB-L ones will be redacted, LC200N $redacted, and a 15N20 or 1084 hand profiled version is $redacted. The hand profiled versions may show some variance in their profiles, but the overall design, ergos and performance will remain. I also have one .125" AEB-L version currently in the works (hand profiling) which can be ready within the next few days, so long as the order is placed very soon. It's base price is $145. Jimping won't be available on this one, as it is already hardened to 62.5 RC, and that would destroy my jimping file. Once my hardened LC200N blanks show up (they are in the mail to me now, but still in San Francisco), I will be quite busy and any new orders will have to go to the back of the line, most likely to be started in the mid to late spring.
I have always been interested in the Temperance 2, but felt it was a little too large and heavy for EDC, so this knife is kind of like my attempt to fill that void for myself. A pivotal moment in this emergence of this design was when I experimentally modded a Spyderco Resilience into this:
That knife quickly became my favorite to use, carry and look at, even when I still had more expensive Spydercos, in more exotic steels, with fancier locking mechanisms. As such I consider it the proof of concept for the design ergos, performance and aestethics. Eventually I decided to make a fixed blade version of this knife in some thin AEB-L I had in stock. Here is the alpha prototype:
I called it the "Skinny Slicer", which is surely not a long term name for this design! This knife belongs to a valued customer, to whom I also ask: @Hurrul since you own the prototype, and because I know you are keen with the use of linguistics, I would love to hear any suggestions you also might have for this design's new name.
Next was the beta prototype stage, in 15N20 (which I hand profiled from one of my universal blanks, hence the slightly odd hole placement). In these images you can see the versatility in grip options:
The specs on the one above are:
Steel: 3/32" (.093") 15N20
Overall Length: 8 1/2"
Cutting Edge Length: 4"
Weight: 4.4 oz (same as a Spyderco Military)
The next stage, of course, is production. I have a small number of these coming, one in .0136" LC200N, and two in .118" AEB-L. The production version of these will have jimping available, as the blank shown below in LC200N, and blade lengths may be 3 3/4" - 4" (and of course they can be made shorter at customer request):
So there is the background on my new design, and I truly have no idea how much interest there will be in it, but of course my hope is that people will want it, and I know that as a knife user myself, one of these in stainless steel will soon be on my hip at all times.
So my mind has been drawing a blank (no pun intended) on what to call this one. What do you think would be a good name??
Thanks!
P.S. Whoever's design name suggestion I choose will receive 15% off their first purchase of this knife, whichever version they choose.
The base price for the first run AEB-L ones will be redacted, LC200N $redacted, and a 15N20 or 1084 hand profiled version is $redacted. The hand profiled versions may show some variance in their profiles, but the overall design, ergos and performance will remain. I also have one .125" AEB-L version currently in the works (hand profiling) which can be ready within the next few days, so long as the order is placed very soon. It's base price is $145. Jimping won't be available on this one, as it is already hardened to 62.5 RC, and that would destroy my jimping file. Once my hardened LC200N blanks show up (they are in the mail to me now, but still in San Francisco), I will be quite busy and any new orders will have to go to the back of the line, most likely to be started in the mid to late spring.
