My 4th completed knife - Tritium & "Reverse" San Mai Flipper Folder

Cory Martin Imaging

Cory Martin Imaging

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Just finished up my 4th knife in time for a knife show this coming weekend. One of my goals in knife making was to impress my father (Peter Martin). While inspecting / playing with this knife, he said "Damn dude!! That's a nice knife!" ... Mission accomplished. Anyways, back to the knife...

Maker: Cory Martin
Website: www.corymartinimaging.com

Blade Length: 4"
Overall Length: 9 3/8"

Blade Material: "Reverse" San Mai Damascus - 320 layer twist core, heavy Nickel layer in between the 52100 outer steel. Hot blued finish.
Back Bar: "Reverse" San Mai Damascus with 16 "Ice Blue" Tritium vials inset just below the surface.
Handle Material: CNC milled, polished and selectively anodized Titanium.

Liners and bezel are polished and anodized Titanium. Pocket clip is also CNC milled, polished and anodized like the handle, and the lines and holes even line up with the handle below.

(Click image for hi-res version)




Questions? Comments? Concerns? Let me know what you guys think. Thanks for taking a look.
 
Hi Cory,

I think the handle shape is great, and I love your clip on this one....the thinner you grind the clip in the center, the more it will act as a spring....it's a balancing act. The idea of the blade is awesome, but I am not sure your grinding is fully up to it yet...the flat to ground transition looks soft from the photo, and as you are an excellent photographer, it has to be that we must believe what we see.

How are the tritium vials inset? If not of some sort of removable "capsule" the owner is screwed in ten years as they fade out....the idea is quite magnificent though.

Had you given thought to putting some in the clip to actually indicate which side of the knife was which in the dark, if it was lying on a table or something?

The work is very quickly moving to inspired and brilliantly conceived....quite exciting to watch, really.

Best Regards,

STeven Garsson
 
Kohai999 said:
Hi Cory,

I think the handle shape is great, and I love your clip on this one....the thinner you grind the clip in the center, the more it will act as a spring....it's a balancing act. The idea of the blade is awesome, but I am not sure your grinding is fully up to it yet...the flat to ground transition looks soft from the photo, and as you are an excellent photographer, it has to be that we must believe what we see.

How are the tritium vials inset? If not of some sort of removable "capsule" the owner is screwed in ten years as they fade out....the idea is quite magnificent though.

Had you given thought to putting some in the clip to actually indicate which side of the knife was which in the dark, if it was lying on a table or something?

The work is very quickly moving to inspired and brilliantly conceived....quite exciting to watch, really.

Best Regards,

STeven Garsson
Click to expand...

While designing this knife I knew I was going to sacrifice functionality of the pocket clip in order to achieve the look I wanted. The "rivets" are actuallyin a radiating pattern from the vertical line between the middle and rear sets of "islands". The pocket clip grooves and rivets all line up perfectly with the ones below it on the handle.

When I rough ground the blade, the flat to ground line was crisp and straight to achieve a proper bevel, and during the rest of the hand sanding and final sanding I rolled over the edge to round it out...I knew I was going to be etching the blade and hot blueing it and I was trying to make the slot with 5 holes and the cutting edge stand out with a sea of black between them. That's why I also rounded off the tip bevel to be a smoother transition to the main bevel. I was trying to make the blade as black as possible without any interruptions.

The tritium vials have a milled slot they slide into and are captured / sandwiched between the liners. With the back bar being my "Reverse" San Mai, I was thinking it would look like the heavy nickel layer would be like electrical cords or conduits providing power to the vials...guess that part comes from watching too much Star Trek 😃.

Thanks for the feedback Steve.
 
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