Military Appreciation Build-Off: TekSec

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For those of you who don't know, David from Great Lakes Water Jet started a contest where he sent out 20 blanks to various volunteers for each to make a knife to give to a military member as a thanks for serving. Alex Shunnarah donated a Dog Tag knife to each maker and Spec-Ops donated the sheath. Here is the one that I came up with:

http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=616054

It will be presented to the Marine Special Agent in Charge (SAIC) of the Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) next Thursday at 0900 hrs. I'm really excited to give him the package. He will do the final presentation personally to a "deserving recipient" to hopefully see some field use in the sandbox. I gave him a few ides (raffle it for their MWR fund, present to a military person at Walter Reed, do a pass around with the deployed Marine agents in the sandbox, etc.) and he said he will let me know what the final outcome is of the blade. Thanks to David for coming up with this!!!!

Blade: Flat ground 3/16” ATS-34, hand sanded to 400 grit, bead blasted and sprayed with Gun Kote (black / green tiger stripe)
Heat treated by Peters’ Heat Treat to RC 59-60
Handle: Green / Black G-10
Pins: 3 hidden 3/16" stainless, 2 stainless 1/4" Corby bolts

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Erik, Thats a great thing to do for one of our troops. Thanks so much.

BTW He is going to love that knife! Nice work man.
 
Meh....that's ok. But Bruce, wait till you see MY military build off knife. :D ;):p

Just joshin...Erik, that's a GREAT looking knife. Way to make all the rest of us look bad :grumpy:. And Bruce is absolutely right, whoever gets it is gonna love it! I really like the stripes.

--nathan
 
David is a great guy and giving back to the community is something I love to do. Thanks for all the comments guys, it means a lot to me! :)
 
silver_pilate said:
Meh....that's ok. But Bruce, wait till you see MY military build off knife. :D ;):p

Just joshin...Erik, that's a GREAT looking knife. Way to make all the rest of us look bad :grumpy:. And Bruce is absolutely right, whoever gets it is gonna love it! I really like the stripes.

--nathan
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I would love to see your knife Nathan. Post it here on this thread maybe? I dont think TecSec would care. In fact it would be cool to see all of them here in one place. :thumbup:
 
Nope, I'm all good with it. Hopefully David will create the final pic thread for the end vote.
 
great idea and way to go on setting the bar high! There are going to be some happy guys out there!
 
Bruce, when I finally get the thing done, I will post it here. It's not going to hold a candle to Erik's, but that's not what this contest is about, so I guess I'll survive :D. We're all very grateful to David at GLWJ for getting this going and also to Paul Smith and Alex Shunnarah for stepping up to the plate and adding the sheaths and dog tag knives to the package. I can't wait to get this done and give it away. Hopefully it will be done in April.

--nathan
 
I'm really happy with it. Had fun doing it and hope the recipient really loves it! Thanks again for all the comments!
 
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