This Ken Brock HideAway Straight went to a femme type as a Christmas present from her boyfriend. I made available gift bags and boxes for the holidays. Need to also do a fancy parchment paper HideAway gift certificate later tomorrow for someone who requested one.
2 of the Ken Brock curvy's that shipped. These are the same ones like on my website under Available Now (shown in 2'nd pic), but I think this dark picture looks slick. It shows the sparkly finish.
Shipped an ankle claw and Sting (the straight one) to a diver.
These went to someone who described his occupation as "very un-official." I was pretty sure he didn't mean to order 5 in one day from Available Now, but apparently he did.
A naked Ken Brock Ti HideAway with no markings or anodizing was mailed to someone who worked at the Summer Olympics in Greece. He sent me this note:
Hi FS,
A lot of people from various US federal agencies were here in Greece during the Olympic Games.
I saw at least two straight hideaways and i was very impresed. What i have in mind is a claw titanium hideaway. Are there any available?
Best regards,
Xxxxxx
One like this ultra-cool HideAway from the very creative and precise Tom Anderson went to an Army Special Forces (Green Beret) officer today.
Made a bunch of Ripp-Cords to send to knife company who's going to ship one with each of a new type of fixed blade. I'm pretty jazzed about that.
This sequence shows where a properly positioned Ripp-Cord's release point would be. i.e., Where the sheath is when the knife starts to come out.
And last thing: I figured out the "Sheath-making should be more like Ravioli-making concept" for my straight-edge HideAways. It took more time to get this right then I'd ever want to admit. My goal was to make it feel like a glove while sheathing and unsheathing while allowing for variations in where the grind starts and where the plunge line ends. That was what took all the iterations of what I created on the mill to create what you see in the pic below.
The end result is very close to being exactly what I want in a HideAway sheath, combined with the FAST speed of making a big (big) batch of them. Having sheathed and un-sheathed lots of these hard-to-sheath-well knives, I've learned all the subtle things to look for - sheaths that feel like they have lots of points of retention (more glove like) vs just a couple sharp points of retention, kydex being in the wrong places for deployment, etc. Also, I backed off the sharp edge a couple hundredths so that if the user knows to re-sheath along the top edge and thumb-ramp side, the sharp edge won't be dragged along the kydex upon re-sheathing (and in any case, not upon deployment). The domes going into the EyeLOK hole on both sides and all the contact points keep it feeling snug and secure. Ken Brock was my first sheathmaker to really figure out how to make a truly minimalist Kydex sheath for the HideAway, and I kept the minimalist theme going with this one.. There is a reason for everything on this sheath - for example why the SheathStick hole along the sharp edge is not centered but more towards one side. This sheath is shown on a Belt-Wrap, a low-line form of waist carry I designed and made available in August.
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