Modded my Necker 2 scales! Pics of the project

I have been following Survive! since the early days. Gettysburg, PA is not too far from where I live and in Frederick,MD there is a knifeshop called Edgeworks. Guy had some sort of relationship with the owner and you could buy Survive! Knives in that shop. He didnt have a lot, but there was a few there. One of the original S!Ks had the 10 handle and a blade like a 5. That shop had a few EDC 4's at one point and he had a big sheet of 3V steel with the cutouts of 10's on display. The owner was very knowledgable about the relationships that Guy had with his contracted manufacturers. I always wanted to buy one of the S!Ks but at the time I was into Bark River knives. Some of the stuff I learned kinda turned me off to Bark River. Then when guy was making the switch to WRK, edgeworks told me about it. He told me the the quality would go way up, that Peters would be heat treating and then showed me a white river backpacker. I was impressed with the finishing so I knew that it might be time to buy one. The ESEE 6 was my perfect survival knife at the time, but I was always wanting for a drop point 3V version with no coating. I couldnt find a Bark River made 5.1 because there were very few made. Then I saw the GSO 5.1(as we know it). But was unable to get one at the time Preordered a 7/7 and the rest is history. Once I got a 5.1 I liked it better and sold the 7/7 to fund a 3.5 and other stuff.
 
Thanks, Riz. Very cool inside information. I regret getting into S! later, as in after their very early days and the first rounds of preorders.

When Ambush Knives came on the scene I heard a mention to how that company and Bark River were not the most honorable.
 
This forum needs a poking-with-stick icon so bad. :)

But seriously..................CONGRATULATIONS RIZ!! :encouragement:
 
White River did one or two production runs in the very early days. Edgeworks is actually where this all started. Guy was a longtime customer there but kept going through knives because none of them were what he was looking for. One day he flippantly said, "I could design a better knife" and the owner there told him everyone says that but it's harder than you think. Challenge accepted: Guy hit the drawing (dining room) table and then carved a prototype out of cherry wood. Edgeworks still has one of Guy's original carved "prototypes". It was definitely harder than he expected to actually get the knives produced, but the market has definitely spoken to the validity of his designs.
 
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