Knife style for Gun and Gear Maintenance tasks?

[Shorttime]

For a 1911?
Heck: that's what Vise-Grips are for!

#HardUse

 

[BillZee]

Sounds like an impossible task, with too little information.
A great opportunity for him to tell you. After a lot of work that's not what he wants.
Been there.......done that..... as an inexperienced jeweler with customers.
Customers have to be involved in design!!

 

[Wild Willie]

I could see perhaps leaving the end of a tang exposed for use as a choke tube wrench.

 

[Chronovore]

Without specific knowledge, this is a job for a multi-tool. He could be talking about a lot of things here. For instance, different driver bits may be needed for body screws, sights, or mounts. Different punch sizes may be needed to push out pins. Sometimes, a small pry tool is just what the doctor ordered. It would make sense in the context of a knife if he meant something like the cut-outs on the Hydra Buzzard shared by @ferider but he really needs to specify.

 

[fishface5]

Ditto the above. This is such an unusual request, you need to know from the customer exactly what sort of tools/abilities they want from the knife.

 

[Retired UPS Driver]

David, what about a fixed blade with a hollow handle and screw on brass butt cap?

That way the blade is/can still be your trademark design, and the firearm maintenance kit can then be tailored for the specific firearm ( stored in the hollow waterproof handle ) for not only this customer, but any future customers too.

 

[Bob Denman]

For the record: I'd sooner clamp a set of Vise-Grips down on the end of my pecker: than the barrel bushing of my .45

 

[K.O.D.]

David, what about a fixed blade with a hollow handle and screw on brass butt cap?

That way the blade is/can still be your trademark design, and the firearm maintenance kit can then be tailored for the specific firearm ( stored in the hollow waterproof handle ) for not only this customer, but any future customers too.

This might be something to consider. I always carry my trusty, slightly rusty, Leatherman Wave with me in my range bag along with a folder. I remember now maybe ten years ago using the pliers to remove a casing in a friend's gun who's extractor went bad while at the range. A knife would have worked as well. But these are generally, rare, emergency things.

 

[DMG]

I am picturing a small fixed blade like you made me but the butt of the handle has a flathead screwdriver and choke tube wrenches. maybe a pin punch nested in the center of the handle and a 1/4 inch driver hex hole somewhere.

Or make him a nice small fixed blade that shares a pouch with a leatherman.