Jensen Elite Blades (JEB)

[RokJok]

Finally, can someone give me assistance on how I might be able to post some images?

This is done is two steps:

#1 step -- Put the pictures somewhere on the web. One picture-hosting site that lots of folks use is Photobucket.com to store their pictures. Photobucket and some other sites are free -- you don't need to pay them to store your pics on their web servers -- while other image hosting sites charge for the space. Once you put the pictures on a site like that, each image will have a web address something like http://photobucket.com/blah-blah-blah/xyz-xyz.jpg.

#2 step -- To include your picture inside a posting here on Bladeforums, as you are composing your post you place an image link in your post. The image link would look something like this:
[img]http://photobucket.com/blah-blah-blah/xyz-xyz.jpg[/img]

Those letters inside the [] square brackets are called "tags". The first tag [img] tells Bladeforums that you're about to give it the web address of a picture. The web address start immediately after the tag. So don't put any spaces between the tags and your address. The second tag, the one with the slash before the "img", [/img] tells Bladeforums to stop reading input as the web address of your picture.

When someone views your posting, when their browser loads the page, Bladeforums will go out and get your picture from the web and insert it into your posting where you put the image link tags and address of it.

HTH.

 

[LSkylizard]

RokJok:

Thanks, that helps. I will attempt to post some pics/drawings of my ideas for the
JUST customized influenced by the recs of others in this discussion.

I think I got it.

 

[Cliff Stamp]

As a pure survival blade there are a few things you can add which are useful like a squared end cap for scraping and/or a similar section on the spine for a ferro rod, and a small indendation to use as a holder for a fire drill. You also might want to configure it for easy set up of micarta handle slabs, trying to do any cutting with bare tang knives get uncomfortable and slippery fast. However you best bet may be to get a fairly clean version first, do a bunch of work of various types and see what would be helpful.

-Cliff

 

[LSkylizard]

Thanks Cliff. Those are excellent recs. I am thinking of having the handle end with an edge similar to the "floro" knife with the round geometry remaining the same.

I have been thinking about the micarta thing. Only problem is that part of why this would be useful is its thin profile. I think a dent for use in starting a fire by way of a bow and spindle is excellent and very easy....I guess this is all academic until I can get JEB to respond or find another maker willing to do it in place of JEB.

I kind of ended up running two threads in parallel. With regards to this idea/project, let's keep the posts in the following thread:
http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=373980

Sorry about the confusion...I am not the most efficient with these forums.

 

[Cliff Stamp]

Just to clarify, those ideas come from the WSI Ranger Knife which is one of the few "survivial" knives that are enhanced beyond a functional drop point without being speed hole based. Ref :

http://www.wildernesssurvival.com/rangerknife.htm

The Micarta slabs don't need to be just slabs either, they could be tools in themselves. They could be hollow and serve as a spoon or small mixing containers, or if the edges tapered and used as scrapers for bark removal.

It also doesn't take much space to contain a ferro rod, sandpaper, and Spyderwire fishing line, easily inside properly machined slabs so the knife now contains the means to start fires, be kept sharp and lashing.

-Cliff

 

[mewolf1]

Just to clarify, those ideas come from the WSI Ranger Knife which is one of the few "survivial" knives that are enhanced beyond a functional drop point without being speed hole based. Ref :

http://www.wildernesssurvival.com/rangerknife.htm

The Micarta slabs don't need to be just slabs either, they could be tools in themselves. They could be hollow and serve as a spoon or small mixing containers, or if the edges tapered and used as scrapers for bark removal.

It also doesn't take much space to contain a ferro rod, sandpaper, and Spyderwire fishing line, easily inside properly machined slabs so the knife now contains the means to start fires, be kept sharp and lashing.

-Cliff

Ya , then when you lose it you
are screwed! Keep some things seperate then when TSHTF you might have a chance.

 

[Cliff Stamp]

Ya , then when you lose it you are screwed!

It is an *additional* storage space which provides *more* options, if you lose it then you still have your other gear, just like if you lose that you have the gear in the knife. The JUST is mainly a last resort blade, not meant to actually replace an axe or larger fixed blade, just be something that you can almost always have on you unlike the other tools and thus maximize preperation even in highly unexpected situations.

-Cliff

 

[mewolf1]

It is an *additional* storage space which provides *more* options, if you lose it then you still have your other gear, just like if you lose that you have the gear in the knife. The JUST is mainly a last resort blade, not meant to actually replace an axe or larger fixed blade, just be something that you can almost always have on you unlike the other tools and thus maximize preperation even in highly unexpected situations.

-Cliff

That's cool. I'm coming from the agle that my knife and hatchet is a live or die situation and guard them with my life. I have never heard of anyone needing back up stuff, and to me it is just more weight. To each his own. Chopping with the hatchet, and cutting everything else with my knife.

 

[Cliff Stamp]

Blades like that are for situations when packing full sized gear is restrictive, odds are you are not always carrying an axe, the JUST however is likely readily easily neck carried, or in the back pocket, or snug in the pocket of your coat.If you actually have an axe then you use that, think of it like a space blanket vs a sleeping bag.

-Cliff

 

[mewolf1]

I don't carry space blankets.

 

[LSkylizard]

...I guess this is all academic until I can get JEB to respond...

Eureka!!! Well, I think I scored. I just received a phone call from Oz with regards to my requests. I found out that JEB is having quite a few problems with their business logistics.

1. First, Their computers are still down
2. Two, they have had a great deal of difficulty obtaing metal stocks
3. There are some social/community logistics inhibiting their production...I guess knife ownership laws are different in Oz.

Anyways, They called me by phone on their dime at around 07:00 their time! I will be faxing them my design. Wish me luck.

I would encourage anyone interested in their knives call them by phone on the "land-line". I hope that orders and continued interest may help them through all this stuff and keep another knifemaker working.

...Jensen Elite Blades...It can sometimes be cumbersome to contact...but he will get back to you...

I guess that is an understatement and remains to be very true.

 

[emptyglass]

Hello:

I've placed several custom orders to the USA with Peter and Bel over the last few years and I have no complaints. I will order from them again in the future. If you want custom work, it is going to take some time. The knives are very tough, of excellent design and quality, and worth the wait in my opinion.

Regards,

Emptyglass

 

[LSkylizard]

...The knives are very tough, of excellent design and quality, and worth the wait in my opinion...

Well, I am willing to wait now that I finally got a hold of them by phone. Funny thing is, I had problems on my end just as they on theirs. My fax wouldn't work so I had to snail mail my designs and requests It seems like they have the metal stock I am looking for.

 

[Ors]

I had forgotten about my email to JEB. I asked about a price for that axe type blade on the website...after reading this thread, I'm not surprised I didn't get a reply.