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Micron Updates

Ilikesharpstuff said:
To be fair, it has been six months of talking about it with nothing shown yet...no teasers, no renderings or napkin drawings...of course the people still following along are ready to finally see a knife. I think we're all just curious to see whether you've come up with something compelling, a Survive knife with a new logo, or something that makes us go

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careful...you'll end up on his ignore list like me.....😏
 
MicronKnives said:
We recently moved from initial prototype to making the working prototypes! That basically means we are making smaller runs of 5 knives in real steels to help us move from working on design to working on manufacturing processes, fixturing, and surface finishes. At this moment we have our first working batch in heat treat, and two more batches being profile milled.
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MicronKnives said:
I'm working on my first one, it's an edc fixie. I don't have any others though
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MicronKnives said:
Made it back from blade show!

The knife community is seriously awesome and we got great feedback on our prototype. Next year we will definitely be a vendor.

Time to get to work!
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So this speaks to prototypes in the works? Or finished? Surely then there are blanks made?.....or at least drawings/cad files?

And you got feedback at Blade Show on what exactly? A finished knife?.....a drawing?......verbalizing a vision?

Does this mean people at Blade Show got to see a knife or at least a concept but you're holding out on showing here for some reason?

Sorry man but this has been a whole lot of hype for quite awhile now with not so much as a concept shown.

People want to know if you can actually make a knife.....or even design one.

I doubt you have anything groundbreaking or proprietary, and nobody is interested in ripping off a slight tweak on another Survive! style fixed blade. You can go ahead and share.
 
Ilikesharpstuff said:
To be fair, it has been six months of talking about it with nothing shown yet...no teasers, no renderings or napkin drawings...of course the people still following along are ready to finally see a knife. I think we're all just curious to see whether you've come up with something compelling, a Survive knife with a new logo, or something that makes us go

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I get it! Believe me, I am beyond ready to get the show on the road.

I need to stress the difference between making a knife and starting a knife manufacturing company. I am doing everything from filling dumpsters to building a website, fixing a building, learning 3d surfacing, moving equipment, building sheath molds, adjusting work flow, meeting with knife makers, and most importantly learning the ins and outs of knife design.

I am so grateful to be in a position of learning so much stuff every day. I'll repay that gratitude by taking my time and doing it the right way. It's crazy how far down a rabbit hole we can go with knife design to just run back out cause it was better the first time.

Thankfully, we made huge progress earlier this week when the design was finalized and approved for the three phase service into the building. I've now been spending my time amending deeds and collaborating with the electrician to get things moving. The knife design is receiving weekly changes as we move from prototype to working prototype, and as of yesterday we have our first heat treated and sharpened magnacut tang (it's a few revisions behind but I had to hold something).

Anyways, the saying is that you should always double the cost and time estimate for a project. I should have doubled that advice.
jbmonkey said:
careful...you'll end up on his ignore list like me.....😏
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I didn't mean to ignore you, we did have the whole crew with us.
J. Doyle said:
So this speaks to prototypes in the works? Or finished? Surely then there are blanks made?.....or at least drawings/cad files?

And you got feedback at Blade Show on what exactly? A finished knife?.....a drawing?......verbalizing a vision?

Does this mean people at Blade Show got to see a knife or at least a concept but you're holding out on showing here for some reason?

Sorry man but this has been a whole lot of hype for quite awhile now with not so much as a concept shown.

People want to know if you can actually make a knife.....or even design one.

I doubt you have anything groundbreaking or proprietary, and nobody is interested in ripping off a slight tweak on another Survive! style fixed blade. You can go ahead and share.
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Okay okay loud and clear! You're right that the goal is not to be groundbreaking with the first model. I was not intending to show it to people but alcohol got involved

The knife I brought to blade show was a hand ground prototype and not a working prototype. This means it was heat treated magnacut that I ground as close to desired geometry as possible and milled scales from some scrap g10. This also means that surface finishes and fit/finish were of no concern.

Attached is a pic of two recent versions. Note that it's not cnc ground, so the plunge line will be different. The most recent version addressed weakness above the finger choil and essentially combined the angles of the blade in front with the length of the one in the rear. Let me introduce, the Micron Maub
 

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MicronKnives said:
I get it! Believe me, I am beyond ready to get the show on the road.

I need to stress the difference between making a knife and starting a knife manufacturing company. I am doing everything from filling dumpsters to building a website, fixing a building, learning 3d surfacing, moving equipment, building sheath molds, adjusting work flow, meeting with knife makers, and most importantly learning the ins and outs of knife design.

I am so grateful to be in a position of learning so much stuff every day. I'll repay that gratitude by taking my time and doing it the right way. It's crazy how far down a rabbit hole we can go with knife design to just run back out cause it was better the first time.

Thankfully, we made huge progress earlier this week when the design was finalized and approved for the three phase service into the building. I've now been spending my time amending deeds and collaborating with the electrician to get things moving. The knife design is receiving weekly changes as we move from prototype to working prototype, and as of yesterday we have our first heat treated and sharpened magnacut tang (it's a few revisions behind but I had to hold something).

Anyways, the saying is that you should always double the cost and time estimate for a project. I should have doubled that advice.

I didn't mean to ignore you, we did have the whole crew with us.

Okay okay loud and clear! You're right that the goal is not to be groundbreaking with the first model. I was not intending to show it to people but alcohol got involved

The knife I brought to blade show was a hand ground prototype and not a working prototype. This means it was heat treated magnacut that I ground as close to desired geometry as possible and milled scales from some scrap g10. This also means that surface finishes and fit/finish were of no concern.

Attached is a pic of two recent versions. Note that it's not cnc ground, so the plunge line will be different. The most recent version addressed weakness above the finger choil and essentially combined the angles of the blade in front with the length of the one in the rear. Let me introduce, the Micron Maub
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was just heckling ya....
 
MicronKnives said:
Attached is a pic of two recent versions. Note that it's not cnc ground, so the plunge line will be different. The most recent version addressed weakness above the finger choil and essentially combined the angles of the blade in front with the length of the one in the rear. Let me introduce, the Micron Maub
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That one is right in my comfort zone!
 
MicronKnives said:
I get it! Believe me, I am beyond ready to get the show on the road.

I need to stress the difference between making a knife and starting a knife manufacturing company. I am doing everything from filling dumpsters to building a website, fixing a building, learning 3d surfacing, moving equipment, building sheath molds, adjusting work flow, meeting with knife makers, and most importantly learning the ins and outs of knife design.

I am so grateful to be in a position of learning so much stuff every day. I'll repay that gratitude by taking my time and doing it the right way. It's crazy how far down a rabbit hole we can go with knife design to just run back out cause it was better the first time.

Thankfully, we made huge progress earlier this week when the design was finalized and approved for the three phase service into the building. I've now been spending my time amending deeds and collaborating with the electrician to get things moving. The knife design is receiving weekly changes as we move from prototype to working prototype, and as of yesterday we have our first heat treated and sharpened magnacut tang (it's a few revisions behind but I had to hold something).

Anyways, the saying is that you should always double the cost and time estimate for a project. I should have doubled that advice.

I didn't mean to ignore you, we did have the whole crew with us.

Okay okay loud and clear! You're right that the goal is not to be groundbreaking with the first model. I was not intending to show it to people but alcohol got involved

The knife I brought to blade show was a hand ground prototype and not a working prototype. This means it was heat treated magnacut that I ground as close to desired geometry as possible and milled scales from some scrap g10. This also means that surface finishes and fit/finish were of no concern.

Attached is a pic of two recent versions. Note that it's not cnc ground, so the plunge line will be different. The most recent version addressed weakness above the finger choil and essentially combined the angles of the blade in front with the length of the one in the rear. Let me introduce, the Micron Maub
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Thanks for the pic. Looks decent. Did you grind the blade?
 
J. Doyle said:
Well if that's the first blade you personally actually hand ground (is it?) it looks pretty good and you might get a handle (pun intended) on this knifemaking thing.
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Oh no I'm sorry this is the first of the micron maub that had the bevel put on

Edit: but I appreciate the comment!
 
Quick little update, we've been working insanely hard the last few weeks to finish up all the big building projects. We only have a couple more weeks of work! The machinery is finding their way to the resting spots and are getting wired (still don't have three phase, that's taking forever). We filled the fourth and final dumpster, and have been actually cleaning which is nice. This week I will be finishing up the last of the large building projects and starting to run air lines. My dad will be running another string of lights by the blanchard and will plumb in a water heater and run lines to the bathroom. My mom will be repointing some historic brick (prehistoric).

Also the vf3 will be here in a couple weeks from storage so the place should look even better.
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SharpBits said:
I hope all is going well for you.
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All is well! All the major projects are done with the building. As you all know we were anticipating having the three phase completed by mid summer and, well, we're not even close. I am using this time to knock out smaller projects and get everything ready to go. Things like making a mount for the tumbler's vfd, making organizing racks for 2x72 grinder attachments and belts, making systems to store and maintain inventory, models, prints, and cam files for both the knives and the fixtures, and creating an area to store and rough process handle and sheath material (Anyone selling a sawstop?). I also need to put some serious hours towards the sheath making process and into the serialization process. I really should film each of these for videos as every project is usually pretty entertaining. I guess I'll add that to the list- learn videography and editing

Edit: thought I posted this reply, alas I did not. Thank you for checking in. Since last Friday we reached another milestone with the three phase, so that's moving along. We also met with a couple manufacturers that have expressed interest in sending OEM work our way, specifically hardware and scales! That is beyond exciting as we have the capacity for both of those at the machine shop right now.
 
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