Here's The Saint... Critique!

[Braja69]

This one is pretty straight forward. Although I was thinking about losing the thumb stud and having it be a spring flipper activated by pressing the red saint emblem

Also I was thinking of making a companion knife to this one in white with a blue emblem called The Sinner. I dunno.

 

[Braja69]

This is my favorite btw If I could actually own any of the designs I've made so far, it would be this one.

 

[Braja69]

It would be an ironic set because The Saint looks evil and mean, where as The Sinner I would make look nice and sweet? I guess that's the word for it

 

[Braja69]

Are the pics too big? I noticed they take a while to load.

 

[Lycosa]

I like this one, also.
Did you contact any knife makers?
rolf

 

[Braja69]

Yeah I pm'd you. No response from the ones you suggested though.

 

[Lycosa]

Replied.
Best of luck!!
rolf

 

[Braja69]

Thanks Lycosa... I need it.

 

[Braja69]

Please check out my other new knife design thread in the custom knives category and tell me what you think.

 

[Greenberg Woods]

I would say you may want some sort of guard, even a small rise in the handle. As it look the handle flows right into the blade and one slip would slice open your pointer, so i would move the blade slightly up and protect the fingers a little. Other critique would be maybe evening out the downward flow in the handle, making that a single curve or two curves combined. A lot better though! The blade safety one should be first though. Nothing will make trusted knife makers reject you faster than dangerous design.

 

[Braja69]

Thanks for the feedback hellspawn415 And for saying that it's a lot better

 

[David Stifle]

I don't get it. Is it a double edge blade? Sure looks like it in the picture. And perhaps you could tell me why this is any different than 100's of other folders on the market. yes, at first glance it looks a little different, but not so much that it would catch my attention.

 

[Braja69]

Definitely not double edged. And I have found that if you go too far outside the box, people don't care for it. But I of course like it and it would catch my eye I'm sorry if it doesn't yours

 

[David Stifle]

Definitely not double edged. And I have found that if you go too far outside the box, people don't care for it. But I of course like it and it would catch my eye I'm sorry if it doesn't yours

I'm not being critical. I couldn't tell from the drawing if it was or not, as the drawing show
s an edge on each side. Is there anything different about the mechanism, or are you designing a knife that looks different? I could swear I've seen the fleur de leis on other pocket knifes also, Swiss Army Knife? Perhaps I'm mistaken.

 

[Braja69]

This is interesting to me and I think I know the answer. I don't wish to stereotype but... I think the older crowd likes the more traditional ideas and designs while the younger is more into anything out of the ordinary. I myself am 35 years old and find myself liking it all I like the wild and crazy stuff just as much as I enjoy the most tried and true designs of old. My point is I don't think you're ever going to please both of those crowds of people at the same time in one knife. Unless you fall in the middle like I do. But hey that's why there are so many designs out there right?

 

[Braja69]

As far as the saint symbol I'm not positive about this but I don't think Victorinox uses this for anything. I could be wrong. Now what I said earlier about making this an automatic spring loaded flipper out the side by pressing on the saint emblem, it just so happens that Victorinox is indeed making a knife now that does just that. They're symbol though is the shield with the cross in the middle. I'm sure it has a name but not sure what it is.

And no you can be critical. But yeah I just designed it to look like that, but definitely not double edged. That would be too dangerous for this particular design.

 

[Greenberg Woods]

Dont just assume that. Im 18 and think there's no need to reinvent the wheel. Innovation for innovations sake is a waste of time to me. Make it better or dont change it. Knife designs are pretty similar because it works. Just cause you make something new doesn't mean its any better, and just going from the fact that you are not a knife maker, it will probably be worse designed.

 

[The Amazing Virginian]

As far as the saint symbol I'm not positive about this but I don't think Victorinox uses this for anything. I could be wrong. Now what I said earlier about making this an automatic spring loaded flipper out the side by pressing on the saint emblem, it just so happens that Victorinox is indeed making a knife now that does just that. They're symbol though is the shield with the cross in the middle. I'm sure it has a name but not sure what it is.

Not the exact same symbol, but close . . .

Oddly enough as I am typing this, there is a black and white episode of the old "The Saint" TV show from the 1960s on my TV with a young Roger Moore as Simon Templar. What are the odds? LOL!

Now there are some things I like and some I do not.

I like the basic shape very much - especially when closed. And the color scheme and theme.

The blade to handle ratio looks a little low. But the main thing I do not like is how the blade is exposed in the open position sticking of the handle in the area near the fleur de lis. I would really want the handle to completely cover that bottom-most part of the blade - and I think that would make it much safer. Also, maybe some jimping on the spine of the blade near the handle would be nice.

Good luck.

 

[Braja69]

Nice. Yeah you're right, that's definitely the same symbol. It is a popular symbol and has been used a lot through the ages. That's part of the reason I felt safe using it. It's not copyrighted or anything. But yeah I've never seen that before on a Victorinox, hmm.

I thought about doing the gimping right in the area you are talking about, I just didn't. I do think that would be nice though.

But that's kind of my point hellspawn415. If you are looking for a knife that does any particular thing very well, doesn't matter what it is, there are probably multiple knives already out there that you could argue, all, do a very good job of it. Or even the best at. So unless some new technology comes out inducive to making "the knife" in general better, you're just going on aesthetics really. Say adamantium was real. Just slap that on a proven form of a knife. And you're done. What next? Then the knife becomes a mixture of art, as well, as function. In order to achieve this (art) function has to suffer somewhere. So it's a balance of pros and cons. That's why people could argue these kinds of things all day.

 

[Stacy E. Apelt - Bladesmith]

It is called a Fleur-de-lis.