HEST is here!

myright said:
Do you that have the HEST find the protrusion on the end of the handle to be useful or uncomfortable?
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Are you talking about the prybar tip?

It doesn't bother me when holding the knife, the thought has occurred to me, that if your wearing the sheath on your belt,and take a fall just right, you might get "poked" by it.

Maybe a short piece of aquarium tube shoved over the end when not in use??
 
On my glue idea, I did it earlier and found it's not necessary to glue the scale, but just take one scale off and while holding the other in place, glue the inserts that hold the scales lined up on the handle, to the inside of the handle.

This lets either scale come off, but the other one stay on.


I am really jazzed about this knife, I am already looking for uses for the "tools" on the blade, other than the stated purpose.

We should start a list of "extra" uses we all find for the HEST!!!
 
Bear Claw Chris Lappe said:
Are you talking about the prybar tip?

It doesn't bother me when holding the knife, the thought has occurred to me, that if your wearing the sheath on your belt,and take a fall just right, you might get "poked" by it.

Maybe a short piece of aquarium tube shoved over the end when not in use??
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Good to hear it doesn't get in the way, I was concerned about that. I'll just have to buy it and see for myself I guess.
 
Bear Claw Chris Lappe said:
I have one early "mod" I may make to mine.

When you undo the screws on one side of the handle, both scales fall off. If I were opening the handle in the dark, I could see a screw or even a scale or the inserts that hold the scales in place being easily dropped and lost.

I may use a few small drops of super glue on one scale to keep it and the screws and inserts in place, and only access the storage compartment by the other scale.

Done right, that should hold them in place, but they could be knocked off also if needed.
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Great idea, but I'd use a DIY glue stick. Heat it with a lighter until the end is soft. No risk of the glue bonding with the paint finish and taking it off with it when you take it apart.
 
If you loosen one screw set and then remove the other the scales pivot up. But once you see it naked...you may never want to put the Micarta scales back on!
 
seems more and more that you didn't ask for those handles RYP :)

Thanks for the design, its nice by the way, just waiting for mine to arrive (ordered on the 14th) to beat it up, seems to me like a perfect knife for my flying. thanks for the bottle opener by the way thats a nice way to think of survival. The pry bar also is interesting for me, have often pried some sheetmetal on the aircraft with a screwdriver, now I can keep it for opening the cowlings :)

Looking forward to your knife design and to reading your book.

RAT Pack #75
 
I designed the knife to be naked and wrapped by the owner. I also mess around with other manufacturer's knives to get them to the balance, shape and edge I want.

Its not pretty but its a lot more functional. Jeff showed me some handle ideas and I was sold. Some folks just don't like a nekkid knife. :)

What was missing in the market place was a real knife designed by a real person to do real things . Sure we all think we are gonna need a "survival" knife but I put 20 years into thinking of what I would really use. First of all you better have it with you, second of all it better not break and it better make good use of every bit of steel on that blade so you don't carry around dead weight.

So we shifted from the capsule (which Henri Charriere aka Papillon would call a "plan") to hollow scales.
 
Well that is a good philosophy for the blade.I have to say that what i like with RAT Cutlery is that the design of their knives is plain dumb simple, it is made to be used as a blade and works as advertised, no fancy dooda or a Drop-bowie-tanto point made for piercing armored car hoods. IMO the association of RAT and RYP can only make something good.

RAT Pack #75
 
RYP said:
First of all you better have it with you, second of all it better not break and it better make good use of every bit of steel on that blade so you don't carry around dead weight.
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That is the way I chose my blades and why I've gone off folders (and would have even without those stupid German laws which banned all my folders at once)

As the HEST falls into the category of "can be carried legally here", I will buy that one as well. It surely is not as pretty as the Izula, but it is a no nonsense blade which I'd like to have around when in less densely populated areas of the world.

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I've read about those new law in Germany Kitty.
I understand the folder part.
But are you really allowed to carry a 12 cm fixed blade into town?
Or is it just for the hunters and the Bayerisch, so they can still carry their knicker?
 
Piet.S said:
I've read about those new law in Germany Kitty.
I understand the folder part.
But are you really allowed to carry a 12 cm fixed blade into town?
Or is it just for the hunters and the Bayerisch, so they can still carry their knicker?
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The crazy part about the folders is: folders only up to 8 cm, while you can have a 12 cm fixed blade in town (even if some people would freak out at the sight it is perfectly legal unless you start threatening people with it or destroy seats in public transport).
If you want to go to a disco that is a different matter, cause all of them have house rules that ban all knifes.

And of course in all bigger cities there are no-weapon-zones (usually around the main stations) where no blade whatsoever is allowed.

Hunters can have whatever blade lenght they deem usable, hunting with the proper license is "legal purpose", as is fishing, hiking and camping.

Actually I wouldn't go into town with anything bigger than the Izula, because the fact that someone freaks out just might be reason enough for a LEO to take it, and I frankly do not know if I'd get it back again.

If I was hiking and came through a town, I'd put my blades into my pack.
 
Thank you for the explanation.
Living in Holland, Germany is nearby, I better know what I am up to, when I cross a border.
Beautiful country, Germany.
 
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