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Lets See Some Pure Fighters
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Less is more.
What a great looking knife.
I keep eyeing the Dozier knives and I especially like this one.
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You really DO have all the good stuff my friend.
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Here is my take on a fighter the goal was a blade of legally concealable length with a full size sculpted handle.
Now if i could only make a leather sheath nice enough for it lol
balance right on the index finger/thumb
Now if i could only make a leather sheath nice enough for it lol
balance right on the index finger/thumb
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I'm delighted to have snagged this #927 Haiku direct from Tom himself. He sent some great info that will be of interest to Dawkind and other Haiku owners:
Poor pic from Tom but will have better ones in a couple of weeks.
Vorpal Haiku, Maringer #927 made 7/22/2009
D-2 steel blade, Black DLC hard-coating. 6" blade, dropped point dirk style. Toggle-tang takedown construction. All titanium furniture, stonewashed yellow "stealth brass" anodizing. Black nitrile rubber O-ring grip over laminated bamboo handle core. Scabbard of kydex with nylon shoulder rig.
Knife weight: 6.6 oz
#927 is the thirteenth Maringer knife made in 2009, the seventeenth knife of the "new period" return to knifemaking.
The Haiku series knives are characterized by the "toggle-tang" construction, which is a modification of the traditional Japanese tang construction system. One problem of the Japanese tang is that the pommel is attached solely to the wooden handle and not to the blade or tang, and therefore the pommel must be very light. I developed the toggle-tang in the 1980s as a way to attach a larger heavier pommel to a sword while retaining the unique takedown features of the Japanese style construction. The toggle-tang style is perfectly suited to smaller knives as well, where its use allows for the use of a strong pommel screw combined with a relatively thin blade. It also obviates the need for a peg hole in the side of the handle, which can be restrictive from a design standpoint. The name "Haiku" for the series is inspired by the fact that when a knife is completely disassembled there are at least 17 discrete parts, the same as the number of syllables in the haiku poetic form.
Blades of the Maringer "new period" may be characterized by an almost brutal economy of form, an extreme of utility combined with an absolute spareness of extraneous mass. The knife design concept was chosen, then pared down to its final form by removing any scrap of material that is not actually performing a needed function. The maker's signature appears only on the tang of the blade, visible only when the knife is disassembled, in order to preserve the purity of line and form, and as a bow of respect to the tradition of the Japanese style craftsmen who also did likewise.
Having taken a twelve year hiatus from knifemaking at the height of my career, I return now with what I feel is a more refined sense of taste in knife design. Much of what I made in the past now seems overly heavy and wasteful of material, chunky or inelegant. Only a few designs of the old period continue to interest me, and so now I have focused on the goal of refining those few design concepts and exploring the variations appropriate within them. This knife is one of those explorations.
And each knife receives its own haiku. For this knife:
Hummingbird hovers
At the flower of knowledge
Extracting meaning
Actually it looks like there were just 17 of them, all unique. Three earlier ones, 912, 913, 914 were narrowing in on the concept. 915 is the first one I actually called a Haiku . Based on the fact that there are 17 separate parts on the knife and 17 syllables in a Haiku poem. The earlier ones had different numbers of parts and were made before I had figured out how to TIG weld in titanium.
Each one had its own Haiku poem written for it upon completion. (see attached text file) It was high summer and the hummingbirds were at the flowers outside the shop when I finished that one.
Poor pic from Tom but will have better ones in a couple of weeks.
Vorpal Haiku, Maringer #927 made 7/22/2009
D-2 steel blade, Black DLC hard-coating. 6" blade, dropped point dirk style. Toggle-tang takedown construction. All titanium furniture, stonewashed yellow "stealth brass" anodizing. Black nitrile rubber O-ring grip over laminated bamboo handle core. Scabbard of kydex with nylon shoulder rig.
Knife weight: 6.6 oz
#927 is the thirteenth Maringer knife made in 2009, the seventeenth knife of the "new period" return to knifemaking.
The Haiku series knives are characterized by the "toggle-tang" construction, which is a modification of the traditional Japanese tang construction system. One problem of the Japanese tang is that the pommel is attached solely to the wooden handle and not to the blade or tang, and therefore the pommel must be very light. I developed the toggle-tang in the 1980s as a way to attach a larger heavier pommel to a sword while retaining the unique takedown features of the Japanese style construction. The toggle-tang style is perfectly suited to smaller knives as well, where its use allows for the use of a strong pommel screw combined with a relatively thin blade. It also obviates the need for a peg hole in the side of the handle, which can be restrictive from a design standpoint. The name "Haiku" for the series is inspired by the fact that when a knife is completely disassembled there are at least 17 discrete parts, the same as the number of syllables in the haiku poetic form.
Blades of the Maringer "new period" may be characterized by an almost brutal economy of form, an extreme of utility combined with an absolute spareness of extraneous mass. The knife design concept was chosen, then pared down to its final form by removing any scrap of material that is not actually performing a needed function. The maker's signature appears only on the tang of the blade, visible only when the knife is disassembled, in order to preserve the purity of line and form, and as a bow of respect to the tradition of the Japanese style craftsmen who also did likewise.
Having taken a twelve year hiatus from knifemaking at the height of my career, I return now with what I feel is a more refined sense of taste in knife design. Much of what I made in the past now seems overly heavy and wasteful of material, chunky or inelegant. Only a few designs of the old period continue to interest me, and so now I have focused on the goal of refining those few design concepts and exploring the variations appropriate within them. This knife is one of those explorations.
And each knife receives its own haiku. For this knife:
Hummingbird hovers
At the flower of knowledge
Extracting meaning
Actually it looks like there were just 17 of them, all unique. Three earlier ones, 912, 913, 914 were narrowing in on the concept. 915 is the first one I actually called a Haiku . Based on the fact that there are 17 separate parts on the knife and 17 syllables in a Haiku poem. The earlier ones had different numbers of parts and were made before I had figured out how to TIG weld in titanium.
Each one had its own Haiku poem written for it upon completion. (see attached text file) It was high summer and the hummingbirds were at the flowers outside the shop when I finished that one.
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That Model 6 never hit the table at the NY show where I bought it.
The Dozier crew was unpacking and setting up the table and when I saw that I just said "MINE!" followed by "please"
I wasn't going to take a chance on that one getting away.
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Coke, those are great knives, Adam makes some seriously tough blades. Good choice of maker. Is one Vanadis 4 and the the other S35VN?
The botom one has some Kiku Matsuda about it
I've never looked at Kiku's knives but I think that the Spartan Bowie profile is a quite common profile that can be seen as generic to many other knives made over the decades by many other makers. It occurred to me later last night that its blade profile is also similar to Busse's Shark, though I did NOT have the Shark in mind at all when I drafted it up. The similarity is uncanny:
The Spartan Bowie profile is in fact a progressive continuation of the 12.25" blue handle knife that Vigil made, of which the blade from the ricasso to the tip I initially designed myself in its entirety, but the handle was a blown out Brend/Pirela profile. I modified it from that original profile many times before ending up with it as you now see it. Here's a few progressive steps of many others in the process:
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And they're BOTH made of 5.3mm thick M390 stock set to around H61-62RC. The way Adam HTs his M390 he has found that level of hardness maximizes that steel's wear-ability.
The 1260 version denotes a square spine whereas the 1260F denotes a quasi False edge come partial V crown.
The 1260 version denotes a square spine whereas the 1260F denotes a quasi False edge come partial V crown.
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