Is anyone crazy enough to take this idea and run with it?

Dishcore WAKE UP didn't mean to yell, are you awake, check what you wrote in your op, I'm sure you were asleep :D
 
It will be dam near impossible without some very expensive equipment but why the need to jump all over the guy for having a dream? He isn't dissing the knife. It isn't some silly goofy thing. Damascus with a nice cutting edge is great. Have we dealt with stupid trolls for so long we're all jaded and jerks to everyone?

Let him try. If he doesn't fail, holy $h!t! And if he does, he'll gain a great appreciation for the work and technology it takes for Kershaw to make a composite blade. There is no need for the nastiness other than seeing a damascus knife destroyed, but they currently aren't as extremely limited as they were before the recent run.
 
dishcore said:
@SPXTrader, If I managed to make ONE, I'd hammer out 41 more so you could have #42. I'd just have to find an outlet for all the other leftover hacked apart leeks lying around.
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you do this and I'll buy #42 for 3 times the cost of the two donor knives!
 
poolhustler said:
MacGuyver it. Use a lighter and a beer can ... make it happen :)
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I had to laugh at this!



Brad, are you trying to light a fire under his rearend!?

If you could pull it off I'd buy one too!
 
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I think it's an interesting idea. Instead of following the CB lines, you can just cut straight across the steel and make is a 3 metal composite. Brazing the parts together... you're on your own there. I'm sure some duct tape will help.
 
I think that it would be pretty easy to have a San Mai blade made for it - not sure about the price. It's such a a tiny blade.
 
IT's defiantly possible, wont be as pretty or strong as a factory made one. I would go to your local machinist and see what he can do.
 
whateatsrabbits said:
IT's defiantly possible, wont be as pretty or strong as a factory made one. I would go to your local machinist and see what he can do.
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I might not be his local machinist, but I am local to somewhere, and a machinist to boot.

Undoing the brazing wouldn't be too difficult, its not the part where it all falls apart, anyhow.

Kershaw uses a process called EDM to shape the two blade sections into their interlocking pattern. It would be VERY difficult to do it with virtually any other method, especially on the composite blades that actually "interlock" like puzzle pieces.

If you decide to go ahead and have your damascus blade cut, you'll need a precise CAD drawing of the existing pattern. I'm not sure how Kershaw is about releasing these things, but its not too far fetched that they might be willing to give it up, provided the right NDA. If they're not, anyone with a CMM should be able to pull an accurate pattern.

The real difficulty, is in cost. If someone happened to work operating an EDM, with access to some method of achieving a pattern, its an entirely possible project. If your plan is to pay somebody to do it.. it would likely be among the most expensive knives around.
 
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