Military Appreciation Build-Off Knife

silver_pilate · May 10, 2009

Here's the knife I completed for David's awesome military appreciation give-away. You can check out the build thread HERE and check out the rest of the builds HERE.

This knife is ATS34 and the design and waterjet cut blank were provided by David at Great Lakes Waterjet. The sheath was donated by Spec-Ops and the last ditch dog-tag blade by Alex Shunnarah. The blade is ground full flat grind with convex edge; handle is tan canvas micarta finished at 320 grit with screw-and-glue permanent construction.

I'll be giving it away this week to an service member and will post pictures when it's all done. Thanks for looking!

--nathan

silver_pilate · May 10, 2009

Forgot the specs: it's just over 5.25" cutting edge, just over 11.25 OAL. Steel is 3/16".

--nathan

Keith Montgomery · May 11, 2009

Well done.

Landi · May 11, 2009

Very Nice! A knife the new owner will be proud to have.

Burton Harruff · May 11, 2009

Very nice work and design.

butchesforge · May 11, 2009

Very nice job,looks like it is ready for active duty:thumbup:Regards Butch

silver_pilate · May 11, 2009

Thanks everyone. I've got a few leads on a soldier to give this to. I'll post pics when that happens later this week.

--nathan

cmott69 · May 12, 2009

very nice

CajunKing · May 13, 2009

Very Clean design.

silver_pilate · May 13, 2009

Here's the presentation. A good marine, Sergeant Kennann is getting ready to go to OCS on the 28th and then flight school from there.

I put together a certificate telling about the knife and all who participated in its build:

Here Chris is checking out the knife:

He seemed pretty stoked about it. Said it was one of the best gifts he's ever received. Kudos to David for putting this together!

The obligatory picture in front of the tank

After the pic we hopped in and tore off down the highway (...if only

)

Thank you everyone who serves our great country. May you all come home.

I've known Chris for a little while now back when he was coming to our clinic for therapy. He served in Iraq unscathed, but a motorcycle put a cramp on his game when he got home. He was telling me he had a knife similar in design to this one when he was in the sand box, but he wore it upside down on his rig (said he thought he was a badass back then), and it fell out and was lost. Best of luck, Chris, in OCS and flight school and in your upcoming marriage as well.

--nathan

panch0 · May 13, 2009

Nathan that was pretty cool of you guys. He got a heck of a bad @ss knife. Too bad we can't give more knives to more soldiers. Or can we???

-frank

sharpeknives · May 13, 2009

Nathan, Excellent job.

Mistwalker · Jun 6, 2009

Awesome job guys, I really enjoyed this thread.